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I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature. Merle Haggard

Nature Me You Heart Old Will Before Some Give Purposes Lead Instead Talked Surgery Anybody Things Medicinal

Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it. Michael Apted

Great History Wonderful Country Own Incredibly Great Country About Seem Stealing Purposes Particularly Pieces Unusual Were Anything Your English Using

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy. Michael Schur

Conflict People Comedy Purposes Never Liked Storytelling Mean

Congress created tax-exempt 501(c)(4)s to operate exclusively for social welfare purposes like early childhood education, environmental protection, and veteran's assistance. However, an IRS regulation allows 501(c)(4)s to operate primarily for the promotion of social welfare. Michelle Lujan Grisham

Environmental Education Welfare Protection Veteran Congress Promotion Purposes Primarily Environmental Protection Like Operate However Childhood IRS Social Created Regulation Social Welfare Assistance Early Early Childhood

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York. Mike Judge

Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it is extraordinarily multi-faceted in the purposes to which it is put. Mitch Kapor

Life Best Extraordinarily Hierarchical More Purposes Put Individuals Mass Primitive Audiences Conditions Than Egalitarian Often Frontier Decentralized Which Cyberspace Communities Serve Elitist

One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business. N. T. Wright

Bible Business Few Sides One Of The Things Find Atlantic Some About Both Purposes Both Sides Glance Taken Taken For Granted Know Devotional Sort Real Verses Get Upper Just Depressing Then Granted Things Basically

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset. Neil Abercrombie

Money Valuable Seen Damn Gave Incredibly Valuable Asset Worthless Purposes Nobody Supposedly Involved Any Land Really Now Asset

I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people. Neil Sheehan

Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well. Nikki Sixx

Inspirational Creative Commitment Fans Country Own Others Meeting Touch My Own Only Purposes Well Content Around Hearing Person Stories Creating Show Help Radio Traveling Serve Honest

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections. Peter DeFazio

Environmental Single Closed Objections Economic Purposes Mergers Mostly Were Years America Oil Oil Company Reasons Company Last

I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. Phil Gingrey

Youth Political Purposes Am Opponent Inexperience Going Exploit

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard. Philip Massinger

Good Lie Purposes Many

I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively. R. A. Salvatore

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My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it. Richard M. Nixon

Decision Own Think Presidents Bad My Own Johnson Purposes Part Taping Historical Done Conversations Should View Kennedy

Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God only, and we are human only. We missed the big point. The point is the integration, both in Jesus and ourselves. Richard Rohr

God Big Met Believe Ourselves Would Only Both Purposes Point Missed Most Practical Catholics Integration Human Jesus Christians

This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher. Robert Shea

Club Top Magazine Seem Rise Small Diversion Purposes Ideals Does Very Offices Organizations Whole Bridge Serious Publisher Phenomenon

The places where I have the nameless character in 'My Name Is Legion' meet his boss are real places I've been to. That works well for tax purposes, writing into my stories the places I've actually visited. Roger Zelazny

Character Writing Meet Visited Boss Purposes Name Well Real Been His Legion Tax Where Stories Places Works Actually

The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress. Samuel Freeman Miller

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Artificial intelligence is just a new tool, one that can be used for good and for bad purposes and one that comes with new dangers and downsides as well. We know already that although machine learning has huge potential, data sets with ingrained biases will produce biased results - garbage in, garbage out. Sarah Jeong

Good Learning Artificial Intelligence Intelligence Will Garbage Sets Tool Machine Dangers Out Bad Data Potential Purposes Results New Know Biased Biases Well Although Huge Artificial Just Ingrained Produce Used

I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech. Scott Peters

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