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America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes.
Ezra Taft Benson
God
Own
Purposes
South
North
America
Land
Choice
Reserved
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
Felix Adler
Time
Good
Day
Legal
Rest
Long
Long Time
Conviction
Community
Has-Been
General
General Good
Purposes
Weekly
Advantage
Employed
Institutions
Felt
Without
Been
Affecting
Existing
Might
Prejudice
Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.
Frans de Waal
Education
Satire
Entertainment
Culture
Made
Example
Animals
Propaganda
Examples
Purposes
Over
For Example
Sort
Duck
Cover
George
George Orwell
Forget
Donald
Mickey
Mouse
Walt
Walt Disney
Human
Being
Laid
Us
Disney
Popular
Popular Culture
Ills
Population
Livestock
Societal
Orwell
So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world.
Fred Thompson
History
You
World
Long
Own
Aggressive
Back
Sphere
Neighborhood
Out
Carrying
Tried
Long History
Purposes
Take
Never
Over
Look
Been
Quite
China
Interests
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
Gary L. Francione
Entertainment
Animals
Defense
Our
Pleasure
Wear
Eat
Only
Purposes
Convenience
Use
Uses
Need
Amusement
The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
George Leonard
Creative
Purposes
Practical
Ultimate
Brain
Infinite
May
Capacity
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
George Mason
Great
Nature
Man
Dignity
Degree
Lose
Own
Our
Abject
Purposes
Had
Part
Idea
Most
Contemptible
Hand
Taught
Regard
Which
Us
Useful
Species
Below
I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough.
Goapele
Myself
Nothing
Enough
Broad
Marketing
Defining
Hated
Purposes
Feels
Genre
Understand
Always
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.
Gustav Krupp
Great
Achievement
Man
People
Fate
Strong
Nation
President
Our
Our People
Entire
Purposes
Historical
Hands
Placed
United
Whose
It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.
Ha-Joon Chang
Time
Nature
Myth
Market
Markets
Purposes
Force
Been
Social
Modified
Should
Creations
If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
Halle Berry
Life
Work
You
Guide
Slightly
Out
Willing
Ability
Give
Something
Direction
Small
Purposes
Could
Look
Another
Real
Shift
Goal
Work Out
Modify
Your
Set
Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
Hamid Karzai
Terrorism
Eyes
Simple
Political
Past
Own
Criminals
Purposes
Gentlemen
Governments
Very
Ladies
In The Past
Unfortunately
Explanation
Certain
Used
Who
Gangs
Now
I was romantically socialized as a gay man, and now that I am, for most intents and purposes, a heterosexual woman, I have to learn how to talk to straight men, which is the scariest thing I've ever done.
Hari Nef
Gay
Man
Woman
Men
Heterosexual
Scariest
Purposes
Most
Talk
Learn
How
Am
Done
Which
Straight
Now
Ever
Socialized
Thing
I love to see what real human behavior looks like. I've always envisioned my job as just observing and noting that and, for the purposes of my work, just cutting out the boring parts.
Harry Shearer
Work
Love
Behavior
Job
Out
Boring
See
Purposes
Observing
Like
Envisioned
Looks
Parts
Always
Real
Real Human
Human
Just
Human Behavior
Cutting
Noting
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Will
Thought
Energy
Nothing
Action
More
Purposes
Combined
Than
Useful
Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Henry Taylor
Nature
Ambition
Purposes
Powers
Said
Fallen
May
Short
Where
Little
Large
Her
An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.
Hernan Cortes
Water
Other
City
Distributed
About
Drink
Purposes
Excellent
Volume
Supply
Abundant
Equal
Bulk
Pipes
Human
Where
Human Body
Forming
Conveyed
Body
Inhabitants
Used
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
Idries Shah
Time
People
Past
Believe
Someone
Something
Purposes
Come
Perhaps
Said
Tragedies
Provocation
Times
Person
Modern
Represents
In The Past
Modern Times
Beliefs
Actually
Illustrative
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
Irwin Shaw
Every
Several
Purpose
Purposes
Contradictory
Often
Different
Which
Might
Even
Novelist
As China is about adaptation, not transformation, it is unlikely to change the world dramatically should it ever assume the global driver's seat. But this does not mean that China won't exploit that world for its own purposes.
Ivan Krastev
Change
World
Own
Transformation
Change The World
Assume
Dramatically
Unlikely
About
Purposes
Driver
Global
Does
China
Mean
Exploit
Should
Ever
Seat
Adaptation
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
J. William Fulbright
Men
Cruelty
Purposes
Noble
Unspeakable
Name
Another
Committed
Against
Acts
I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
Jack Bowman
Leader
Defensive
Purposes
Although
Sell
Gang
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun
Music
Emotions
Hopes
Purposes
Intended
Sentient
Beings
Designed
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.
James Lovelock
Life
Own
Changes
Earth
More
Purposes
Does
Than
Adapt
I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter.
James Wolcott
People
Responsibility
Party
Down
Difficult
Assume
Way
Possible
Neither
Something
Purposes
Understand
American
Cram
Which
Turning
Fortitude
Full
Necessary
Bipartisanship
If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.
Janis Karpinski
You
Law
Try
Responsibility
Soldiers
Charged
Find
Some
Above
Fact
Purposes
Saddam
Know
Practical
Unusual
Did
In Fact
Might
Using
Enhance
Now
Enhancing
Techniques
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