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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao Tzu
Will
Made
Thieves
Prominent
Laws
More
Order
I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.
Benjamin Orr
Fight
Car
Increased
Prominent
Vocal
More
Never
Songwriting
Felt
Role
Needed
I've always believed in speaking my mind, and I think the technology has made it more prominent. Even a common man's voice is heard prominently now, much to the chagrin and surprise of politicians. They aren't used to that.
Kamal Haasan
Technology
Man
Mind
Made
Politicians
Think
Prominent
More
Voice
Always
Surprise
Heard
Common
Much
Used
Speaking
Chagrin
Even
Now
Believed
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
Marshall McLuhan
Writing
Care
Thought
Prominent
Magazine
Composition
More
Features
Go
Than
Any
Newspaper
Far
Ad
After working in a prominent position at a Planned Parenthood facility in Central Texas for over eight years, I can say that women deserve better than Planned Parenthood and that their funding should be reallocated to Federally Qualified Health Centers.
Abby Johnson
Health
Women
Better
Say
Prominent
Parenthood
Facility
Over
Qualified
Years
Texas
Than
Eight
After
Centers
Central
Should
Working
Planned
Planned Parenthood
Deserve
Funding
Position
My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country.
Amitabh Bachchan
Father
Poet
Country
Giant
Harvard
Prominent
Writes
He
Most
Also
Hindi
Because
Quite
Taught
Literary
Literature
Which
English
English Literature
Unique
Universities
University
Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.
Annalee Newitz
Witness
Field
Say
Evidence
Harvard
Prominent
Evolutionary
Case
Students
He
Most
Faking
Came
Been
Years
Get
Graduate
Often
Graduate Students
Controversy
Psychology
Forward
Whose
Marc
Professor
The shooter's choice of Emanuel AME was most likely deliberate, given the church's storied history. It was the first African Methodist Episcopal church in the South, founded in 1818 by a group of men including Morris Brown, a prominent pastor, and Denmark Vesey, who would go on to lead a large, yet failed, slave revolt in Charleston.
Anthea Butler
History
Church
Men
First
Group
Prominent
Would
Charleston
Brown
Deliberate
Given
Lead
Morris
Failed
Most
Likely
Go
Methodist
South
Denmark
Pastor
Revolt
Shooter
African
Episcopal
Choice
Who
Large
Including
Founded
Slave
The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
Bayard Taylor
Dark
Become
Other
Jews
Marked
Possess
Harsh
Those
Latter
Characteristics
Prominent
Eye
Physical
Cheek
Well
Parts
Families
America
Same
Traits
Difference
Native
Nose
Jaw
Coarse
Europe
Jerusalem
Palestine
Present
Jewish
Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.
Bob Holden
National
State
Prominent
Run
Remains
Missouri
According
Efficiently
Tax
Low
I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal to him.
Bobby Ray Inman
People
Remember
Looking
Prominent
Carter
Totally
Individual
Observed
Democrat
Identify
Him
Around
Reagan
Were
Very
Want
Bush
Disloyal
Then
Who
Many
Compared
I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.
Candace Cameron Bure
Today
Age
Wish
Style
Teenagers
Back
Say
Tops
Prominent
Wearing
Had
Like
Look
Looked
Also
Tank
Very
Whatsoever
Just
Laid
Laid Back
Them
Flip
Jeans
Now
Flops
I have this prominent feature on my face - I don't know if you've noticed - but, well, they're my lips. They tend to walk into a room before I do because they're larger than average! So Chapstick's a big one for me.
Chloe Bridges
Me
You
Walk
Face
Big
Before
Prominent
Feature
Tend
Know
Well
Because
Than
Big One
Lips
Room
Average
Noticed
Larger
But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.
Christie Hefner
Business
Change
Age
Women
People
World
Will
Big
Positions
Prominent
Run
About
Gives
Because
Big Companies
Women Are
Maybe
Dot-Com
Younger
Younger Age
View
Help
Who
Companies
Many
I don't think I ever once heard Mum utter a religious or spiritual sentiment, a considerable feat considering that she was married for 57 years to one of the most prominent Catholics in the country.
Christopher Buckley
Spiritual
Country
Sentiment
Think
Considerable
Once
Considering
Prominent
Married
Religious
Feat
Most
She
Catholics
Years
Heard
Mum
Ever
Utter
India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous.
Clayton M. Christensen
Technology
World
Prosperity
Internet
Ways
Prominent
Out
India
Corrupt
Prosperous
Industry
Because
Geography
Very
Conduit
Where
Information
Information Technology
Competing
I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.
D. J. Cotrona
Good
Stupid
Films
Mine
Prominent
He
House
Messing
Around
Making
Still
Doing
Camera
Friend
Up
Effects
Just
Grew
Loving
Movies
Really
Special
Special Effects
Who
Now
Actually
Good Friend
Started
Career
Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.
Dan Gilroy
Character
You
Change
World
Better
Every
Prominent
Arc
About
More
Write
Ideas
Messages
Became
Commissioned
Creates
Film
Ellison was prominent on the lecture circuit even in the Black Aesthetic days of the Sixties when his defiantly pro-American and prickly-proud intellectual act met with some hostility.
Darryl Pinckney
Black
Met
Circuit
Prominent
Some
Hostility
Days
Aesthetic
His
Lecture
Intellectual
Pro-American
Sixties
Act
Even
I have very purposely never signed up with commercial lecture agencies as most, I think, prominent historical authors do because, to me, that's a contradiction of who I believe I am given my absorption of the teaching of Martin Luther King, Jr.
David Garrow
Me
King
Believe
Think
Prominent
Signed
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr
Given
Purposely
Never
Absorb
Most
Because
Am
Lecture
Historical
Up
Very
Contradiction
Commercial
Authors
Agencies
Teaching
Who
Luther
Prominent scientists have become increasingly convinced that the connection between carbon emissions and rising temperatures is real, but skeptics have whole truckloads of studies to demonstrate the opposite.
David Ignatius
Become
Increasingly
Prominent
Temperatures
Rising
Emissions
Studies
Between
Real
Demonstrate
Scientists
Opposite
Convinced
Connection
Whole
Carbon
It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny in their precision.
Debra Granik
Pleasure
Prominent
See
Like
Comedians
Female
Been
Impressions
Precision
Which
Kate
Flourish
Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
Dennis Rodman
Death
Me
Mind
Somebody
Think
Prominent
Had
Always
Times
Place
Might
I am worried that algorithms are getting too prominent in the world. It started out that computer scientists were worried nobody was listening to us. Now I'm worried that too many people are listening.
Donald Knuth
People
World
Listening
Too Many People
Too
Worried
Prominent
Out
Computer
Nobody
Am
Scientists
Were
Getting
Us
Many
Now
Started
But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.
Donna Rice
Relationship
Woman
Post
First
Past
Presidential
Presidential Race
Hart
Prominent
Out
Embellish
Threat
Having
Week
Had
Long-Term
Because
Reveal
Got
Continue
Been
After
Race
Apparently
Even
Washington
Media
I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.
Douglas Alexander
Politics
You
People
Judge
Others
Side
Prominent
Willing
Never
Make
Been
Than
Interested
Choice
Means
Less
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