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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius
Love
Good
Hate
Good Things
Achieve
Bad Things
Difficult
Bad
Easy
Scheme
How
Very
Get
To Love
Whole
Works
Things
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Will Rogers
War
Nation
Enter
Scheme
Allowed
Till
Stopping
Paid
Last
Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.
Spencer Tracy
Job
Important
Plumbing
Scheme
Important Job
Acting
Things
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
Kurt Vonnegut
Survival
Think
Evolution
Crowning
Scheme
Glory
Brain
Very
Human
Taught
Human Brain
Poor
Far
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
Gerald R. Ford
Government
Family
Together
Commitment
Mother
Matter
Father
Nurture
Adequate
Scheme
Take
Bound
Protect
Well-Intentioned
How
Children
Substitutes
Place
Loving
Things
I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.
John Paul Jones
Happiness
Life
Good
Peace
Heart
Will
My Life
Sacrifice
Softer
Favorite
Restore
Only
Could
Scheme
Sacrificed
Prospects
Also
Cheerfulness
Ready
Am
Affections
Domestic
Mankind
Among
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.
David Souter
People
Independence
Understanding
Judiciary
Danger
Constitutional
Scheme
Judicial
How
Fits
It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrowing to make up an increasing deficit must, in the end, if continued, prove ruinous.
John C. Calhoun
Increasing
Sides
Deficit
Must
Admitted
Borrowing
Scheme
Make
Make Up
Revenue
Prove
Continue
End
Up
Expenditures
In The End
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
Joseph de Maistre
Guidance
Wonderful
Free
Action
Throne
Scheme
Divine
Bound
Most
Supreme
Supreme Being
Without
Being
Which
Us
Aspect
Flexible
Beings
Chain
Things
Universal
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Shirley Chisholm
Creative
Personality
Political
Pay
Fighter
Independent
Must
Price
Scheme
Takes
Role
Anyone
Place
Little
Who
Things
'The Secret Agent,' Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Royal Observatory at Greenwich - in fact, a scheme by a secret police agent to stir up a government backlash - has acquired a kind of cult status as the classic novel for the post-9/11 age.
Tom Reiss
Government
Age
Police
Secret
Secret Agent
Anarchist
Backlash
Plot
Kind
Status
Classic
About
Fact
Scheme
Observatory
Joseph
Cult
Stir
Up
Blow
Greenwich
In Fact
Acquired
Agent
Novel
Royal
Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.
Ali MacGraw
Life
My Life
Scheme
Count
Modeling
Fleeting
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.
Andrew Motion
Life
Beautiful
Finance
Money
Enough
Enough Money
Out
Pension
Eating
Scheme
Beautiful Paintings
Like
Beautiful Things
Make
Because
Surrounded
Afford
Being
Barely
Paintings
Things
Buying
Even George W. Bush, who as president pushed the boundaries of executive power, never proposed a statutory scheme to hold people indefinitely.
Ari Melber
People
Power
President
Indefinitely
Statutory
Scheme
Proposed
Never
Pushed
Boundaries
Executive
Executive Power
George
George W
George W. Bush
Hold
Bush
Who
Even
Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?
Art Bell
Time
Invention
Our
Cosmic
Scheme
Real
Real Thing
Realize
Really
Measuring
Thing
Things
There's so much pressure on young people to go to university when they're 18 or 19, but actually, in the grand scheme of it, I don't think it matters to do it at that time.
Bel Powley
Time
People
Pressure
Matters
Young
Think
Scheme
Go
Grand
Young People
Much
Actually
University
Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.
Bernard Katz
Religion
World
Scheme
Pyramid
Organized
Organized Religion
Largest
It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.
Bill Ackman
People
Believe
Harming
Benefit
Top
Wealthy
Super
Scheme
Pyramid
Principally
Hispanic
Handful
Low-Income
Certainty
Population
I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten.
Bob Saget
Life
Book
People
Think
Books
Some
Scheme
Feel
Healthier
Than
Get
Just
Where
Rewritten
Happen
Story
Grand
Your
Believing
Things
I had a small investment in Twofold, following guidance from my professional advisers. I had, however, claimed no tax relief of any amount in regard to this investment. Given the concerns raised about it, I have now instructed my advisors to withdraw me from the scheme with immediate effect.
Bradley Wiggins
Me
Guidance
Twofold
Immediate
Claimed
Relief
Following
About
Given
Small
Scheme
Had
Investment
Instructed
Withdraw
Concerns
Adviser
Advisor
However
Effect
Any
Tax
Regard
Tax Relief
Professional
Now
Amount
Raised
I'm scared of actors with a scheme.
Cate Blanchett
Scared
Scheme
Actor
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.
Charles Saatchi
Buy
Art
Matters
Collectors
Pretty
Insignificant
More
Scheme
Feel
Like
Exhibitions
Off
Sell
Survives
Then
Show
Things
I think the one commonality between the two Super Bowl teams I've been on is great, great teammates. I can honestly say that guys in Philly could definitely thrive in New England and vice versa - if you throw out the scheme differences.
Chris Long
Great
You
Thrive
Differences
Vice Versa
Teammates
Think
Honestly
Philly
Say
Definitely
Out
Super
Super Bowl
Guys
Could
Scheme
Throw
Between
New
Bowl
New England
Versa
Been
Vice
Commonality
England
Teams
Two
Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.
Daniel Pauly
World
Our
Giant
Scheme
Waged
Oceans
Been
Victims
There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.
Daniel Pauly
Rights
Matter
Free
Pay
Complex
Fact
Scheme
Fish
Fishing
Governments
End
Privilege
Stop
In Fact
Urgent
Urgent Need
Themselves
Should
Awarding
Need
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.
David Rubenstein
People
Think
About
More
Scheme
Making
Equity
Private
Efficient
Just
Much
Used
Companies
Compensation
Basically
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