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The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.
Daniel Hannan
You
Entertainment
Book
Virtually
Nutshell
Rules
System
Anecdotes
About
Fact
Pursuit
Facts
Open
Particular
Crack
Any
Which
Us
Page
EU
One way to think of the tax system is as a massive Swiss cheese. Each hole is an exemption created by a chancellor in pursuit of good headlines - a hole waiting to be filled by the clever accountants who work for Starbucks or Jimmy Carr.
Daniel Hannan
Work
Good
Waiting
Cheese
Clever
Think
Jimmy
Way
System
One-Way
Pursuit
Headlines
Massive
Exemption
Accountants
Tax
Hole
Tax System
Created
Who
Each
Filled
Starbucks
Swiss
Chancellor
My pursuit was more in the music thing, so I never went out pursuing movies. It was more just pursuing my singing career because people came to me for singing more than they did for doing movies.
Darlene Love
Music
Me
People
Singing
Out
More
Pursuing
Pursuit
Never
Because
Doing
Came
Than
Did
Just
Movies
Thing
Career
There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.
David Henry Hwang
Happiness
About
Something
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Very
American
Iconography
Notion
Unique
What I try to do with my career as an actor is what I've learned in the theater: I am rigorous with myself as to whether I'm telling the truth, and I try to surround myself with filmmakers and content creators who are also interested in the pursuit of the truth.
David Oyelowo
Truth
Myself
Try
Telling
Telling The Truth
Rigorous
Pursuit
Also
Learned
Content
Am
Surround
Whether
Theater
Interested
Who
Creators
Actor
Career
Filmmakers
I'm from a generation of women that shattered the glass ceiling. We didn't wait for doors to open. The lesson I learned is that you need to open some doors for yourself in pursuit of career advancement.
Denise Morrison
You
Generation
Women
Yourself
Wait
Doors
Lesson
Some
Pursuit
Open
Advancement
Glass
Shattered
Learned
Ceiling
Career
Need
Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better.
Derren Brown
You
Better
Solitary
Magic
Pursuit
Hours
Hours And Hours
Getting
Quite
Getting Better
Thing
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.
Donald Sutherland
Work
Truth
Hard Work
Good
Me
You
Partner
Whatever
Bit
Those
Out
Find
Pursuit
Talent
Terrific
Lot
Little
Little Bit
Worked
Really
Certain
Hard
Fortune
Lucky
Good Fortune
Amount
Things
Four
Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.
Dorothea Dix
Future
Time
You
Will
Reading
Spend
Books
Solely
Pleasure
Solid
Harvest
Pursuit
Studying
Hours
Passed
Leaves
Years
Golden
Useful
Enjoyment
Gather
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.
Douglas Kennedy
Happiness
You
People
World
Past
Other
Abide
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Shaped
Idea
Come
Histories
Theme
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
E. T. Bell
Doubt
Indeed
Degenerate
No Doubt
Pretty
Silly
General
Generalities
Pursuit
Particular
Quest
Austere
Very
Quickly
Any
Vice
Which
Formulas
Incapable
Theorems
Neat
Application
Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.
Edward Everett
Lost
General
Pursuit
Had
Been
Lee
Moment
One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness.
Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
Happiness
Market
Way
Markets
Ability
One-Way
Through
Pursuit
Provide
Ultimately
Choice
Choices
Express
I think there's something beautifully old fashioned about waiting all week then sitting down and watching something on television together. I'm generation box set, accustomed to binging on multiple episodes at a time, which is fun but quite a solitary pursuit because you do it alone.
Elizabeth Debicki
Alone
Time
You
Together
Generation
Waiting
Old
Down
Think
Television
Solitary
About
Something
Week
Pursuit
Beautifully
Box
Because
Sitting
Quite
Accustomed
Which
Then
Episodes
Old-Fashioned
Fun
Multiple
Watching
Set
I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Myself
Writing
Obey
Enough
Considered
Destiny
Only
Pursuit
Never
Had
Always
Passions
Truly
Conveniently
Loved
Means
Many
Search
Lucky
Ever
Shimon Peres was the greatest living example of an unshakable belief in the pursuit of peace against all odds.
Ephraim Mirvis
Peace
Example
Odds
Living
Pursuit
Unshakable
Greatest
Against
Belief
If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.
Errol Morris
Truth
You
Journalist
Think
Some
Pursuit
Part
Proud
However
Want
Describe
Level
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Frank Herbert
Freedom
Wealth
Tool
Way
Pursuit
Slavery
In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.
Frank Luntz
Good
Passion
Unhappy
Healthy
Cases
More
Rational
Fact
Emotion
Good Thing
Pursuit
Provided
Than
Being
In Fact
Actually
Thing
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Frank Muir
Jokes
Solitude
Humor
Way
Weapon
Superiority
Pursuit
Masculine
Wit
Gentle
Grin
When Trump started belittling him, Jeb reverted to Bush form. He couldn't understand how anyone could question his noble pursuit of public service. In the face of Trump's attacks, he looked hurt and stunned.
Franklin Foer
Service
Hurt
Face
Attacks
Could
Pursuit
He
Noble
Stunned
Looked
Him
Understand
How
His
Question
Trump
Anyone
Form
Public
Bush
Public Service
Started
I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
Gabrielle Anwar
Happiness
Mother
Daughter
Sister
Lover
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Am
Friend
Creator
Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.
Gad Saad
Happiness
Individual
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Primary
Freedoms
Which
Engine
As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
Gary Hamel
Great
Better
Revolution
Sense
Our
Our Planet
Security
Something
More
Pursuit
Demand
Unsustainable
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Learned
Equanimity
Souls
Ultimately
Very
Different
Grandchildren
Planet
Last
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge
See
Pursuit
Child
Want
Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.
George Vancouver
Our
Considering
Worthy
Embrace
Prevailing
More
Pursuit
Attention
Advantages
Opening
Continue
Northwest
Being
Breeze
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