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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
Hunter S. Thompson
Time
Fear
Mind
Will
Stupid
Before
Run
Only
Seized
Dry
Frenzy
Question
America
Controls
Rot
Fatal
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Pliny the Elder
Wealth
Lust
Possess
Totally
Seems
Rather
Seized
Than
Avarice
Them
Mankind
It is every American's right to question any big event, especially when it's seized on to take the basic liberties of Americans.
Alex Jones
Big
Every
Liberties
Seized
Take
Big Event
Question
American
Any
Event
Right
Basic
Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth.
DeRay Mckesson
Truth
Social Media
Power
Become
Own
Our
Seized
Allowed
Storytellers
Social
Us
Media
In the Trump era, the Left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the Right has abandoned by its embrace of the president.
Bari Weiss
President
Abandoned
High
Moral
Embrace
High Ground
Seized
Era
Trump
Left
Ground
Right
They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.
Denis Kearney
Government
Science
Corruption
Made
Nation
State
City
Seized
Robbery
County
Debt
Public
Bribery
Loaded
Speculation
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Du Mu
Opportunities
Seized
Multiply
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
Ezra Stiles
Property
People
Power
Seized
Aggregate
Original
Resides
Trump has seized the Republican nomination by finding scapegoats for the economic hardships and disintegrating lives of working-class whites while giving these voters a reassuring but false promise of their restoration to the center of American life.
George Packer
Life
Hardships
Giving
Promise
Finding
Restoration
Economic
Seized
Voters
Nomination
False
Trump
American
Center
While
Republican
American Life
Whites
Working-Class
Reassuring
Lives
People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.
Greta Van Susteren
News
Culture
People
Management
Gathering
Corporate
Colleagues
Case
Seized
Like
Liked
Steve
Came
Left
Gerry
Often
Disgusting
Ask
Why
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
Hesiod
Money
Wealth
Better
Seized
God-Given
Much
Should
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
J. G. Ballard
Morning
Invaded
Seized
Shanghai
After
China
Japanese
Harbor
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.
James D. Watson
Good
You
People
Rich
Assuming
Our
Bad
Something
More
Seized
Know
Most
Policies
Govern
Dictate
Than
Whereas
Social
Poor
Exploit
Should
Actions
In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.
Jerry Saltz
Time
Culture
Money
Watergate
Group
Other
Market
Everything
Seventies
Visual
Seized
Except
Had
No-One
Attention
Questioned
America
American
Artists
Being
Happened
Reproduction
Apart
Vietnam
Means
Production
Paying
Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.
Jill Lepore
Age
Innovation
Strategy
Seized
Terror
Competitive
Disruptive
Even though the method of 'Harvest' was a historical novel, its intentions were that of a modern novel. I'm asking you to think about land being seized in Brazil by soya barons. It's also a novel about immigration.
Jim Crace
You
Immigration
Brazil
Think
Though
Harvest
About
Seized
Also
Method
Were
Historical
Modern
Intentions
Being
Land
Asking
Even
Novel
Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions.
Jim Webb
Culture
Events
Military
About
Attack
Seized
Major
Feminists
Been
Used
Bring
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
John Desmond Bernal
Science
Long
Characteristic
Possible
Proof
Seized
Advance
Scientist
Any
Essence
Often
Explanations
Full
That is - the use of the subjective camera is an idea that's been around in movies for a long, long time. And it's an idea that was seized on very notably by Sam Fuller and by Alfred Hitchcock in two different very kind of - otherwise very different styles of filmmaking.
Jonathan Demme
Time
Long
Long Time
Alfred Hitchcock
Otherwise
Kind
Seized
Idea
Around
Styles
Camera
Been
Subjective
Very
Hitchcock
Sam
Different
Movies
Use
Fuller
Different Styles
Two
Filmmaking
There is no upside for the U.K. in Brexit. Only costs that can be avoided and advantages to be seized by remaining in Europe. No one should have to pay the Brexit tax.
Jose Angel Gurria
Pay
Only
Costs
Seized
Remaining
No-One
Advantages
Tax
Upside
Should
Brexit
Avoided
Europe
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
Lance Morrow
Mind
Church
Carried
Seized
Vatican
Force
Catholic
Catholic Church
Roman
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Church
Centuries
Across
I logged into my bank accounts, and they were all seized, all frozen. So that was a pretty clear indication that I was in big trouble.
Molly Bloom
Trouble
Big
Indication
Pretty
Seized
Clear
Were
Accounts
Bank
Frozen
I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings.
Moshe Safdie
World
Opportunity
Style
Think
Signature
Architects
Seized
Buildings
Go
Anywhere
Produce
Meaningless
Star
If there is a 'Leave' vote in England and across the U.K. as a whole, then we see the reins of power being seized by politicians who are on the right of the Conservative party.
Nicola Sturgeon
Vote
Conservative
Power
Party
Politicians
Conservative Party
See
Seized
Leave
Being
Then
Across
England
Who
Whole
Reins
Right
History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.
Orison Swett Marden
History
World
Impossible
Decision
Men
Before
Action
Those
Thousands
Prompt
Examples
Seized
Results
Occasions
Accomplish
Them
Sweep
Less
Who
Deemed
Resolute
In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research.
Pamela Druckerman
Saying
Home
School
Parents
Reading
Fall
Research
Nineties
Evidence
Kids
Seized
No-One
Development
New
Talking
Because
Brain
Behind
Them
Poor
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