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Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for the next great struggle.
Mitch McConnell
Great
History
Struggle
Conflict
Nation
Down
Our
Drawing
Find
Only
Forces
Readiness
After
Regrettable
Next
Each
The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.
Jules Verne
World
Wealth
Cause
Desolate
Evils
Possession
Responsible
Only
Almost
Sin
Leads
Abuse
Most
Inevitably
Chief
Gold
Which
Regrettable
Below
Thirst
I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.
Bob Newhart
Today
Confusion
Humor
Think
Kind
Sacred
Sacred Cows
Between
Know
How
Passing
Cows
Little
Regrettable
Gross
Many
My experience and research has led me to the regrettable conclusion that our system of mass incarceration functions more like a caste system than a system of crime prevention or control.
Michelle Alexander
Me
Experience
Crime
Control
Research
Our
System
More
Caste
Prevention
Mass
Like
Conclusion
Led
Than
Regrettable
Incarceration
Functions
People have pain - they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.
Jennifer Garner
People
Pain
Shame
Feel
Equals
Regrettable
Things
It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Energy
Weapons
Most
Making
Being
Regrettable
Nuclear
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Weapons
I'm willing to give Pat Robertson a pass when he says things he shouldn't. That's because for every wacky, regrettable thing he says, he does a hundred thousand non-wacky good things that you'll never hear about on television.
Eric Metaxas
Good
You
Good Things
Every
Hundred
Says
Television
Willing
Thousand
About
Give
Never
He
Robertson
Because
Does
Pass
Wacky
Hear
Pat
Regrettable
Thing
Things
However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.
Jean-Claude Juncker
Future
Will
However
May
Move
Move Forward
Stop
Moves
Regrettable
Brexit
Painful
Forward
Need
I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
J. K. Simmons
Myself
Listening
Decision
Thought
Other
Trees
Back
Jimi Hendrix
Out
Jock
Had
Dropping
Hippie
Hippies
Pine
Very
Quickly
Being
Tuning
Which
Janis Joplin
Forsake
Regrettable
Turning
Aspect
Hendrix
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
Francis Parker Yockey
About
Mental
Mental Illness
Rationalism
Facts
Talk
Them
Fantastic
Regrettable
Create
Hard
Illness
Things
There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is.
Rupert Everett
Culture
Stupid
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Our
Immoral
Still
Heartless
Regrettable
Amount
Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That's just a fact and it's regrettable and it's got to change.
Peter Hedges
Change
People
Black
White
More
Fact
Likely
Got
Than
Just
Regrettable
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
Xavier Becerra
Work
History
Chapter
Unfinished
Nation
Our
Liberties
Civil
Civil Liberties
Remains
Rectify
Passage
Still
Years
Close
After
Regrettable
Act