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If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'
Jesse Williams
Me
Democracy
You
Vote
People
Speak
Voting
Statement
Say
Those
Says
System
Someone
Sham
Well
Making
Hear
Then
Rigged
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
Tom Waits
Pain
Sham
Real
Real Friends
Friends
Real Pain
Champagne
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
Jesse Ventura
Strength
Religion
Business
People
Other
Out
Tells
Sham
Crutch
Stick
Go
Noses
Organized
Organized Religion
Who
Need
Numbers
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Desmond Tutu
Heart
Wonderful
Gift
Extraordinary
See
Sham
Children
Capacity
Expose
Things
Humbug
By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.
Felicity Huffman
Woman
Single
Mark
Sides
Inquiry
Definition
Various
Sham
Points
Support
Issue
Testify
Testimony
Hearing
Contraception
Did
Mandate
Republicans
Views
Many
Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.
Hugo Chavez
Time
Democracy
Reality
Book
Fear
First
Liberal
Liberal Democracy
Run
Sham
Had
Read
First Time
Answer
False
Which
Spain
Your
Elites
Honduras
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
John Polanyi
Quality
Worth
Insist
Our
Though
Criterion
Ourselves
Sham
Instead
Scientists
Lend
Should
Largely
Assessment
Socio-Economic
Applying
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer
Government
Courage
Intelligence
Virtue
Press
Able
Sham
Know
Without
Mockery
Trained
Which
Public
Disinterested
Popular
Right
Preserve
For many, the loan modification process has been a giant sham.
Lisa Madigan
Loan
Giant
Has-Been
Sham
Been
Process
Modification
Many
This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.
Marion Barry
Game
Sham
Stuff
Real
The government shutdown, we all know that's a sham. I mean, are they really going to just go to the entire Army and Navy and say, 'You're fired.'
Mike Leach
Government
You
Army
Say
Entire
Sham
Fired
Know
Go
Going
Just
Mean
Really
Navy
Sham liberty will be proclaimed everywhere.
Nostradamus
Liberty
Will
Everywhere
Sham
Proclaimed
If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.
Patricia Arquette
Democracy
Vote
People
Our
Sham
Allow
America
I know it was all a bit of a sham. But I know that Mickey Dolenz sang. And Davy Jones sang. And Mike Nesmith sang. And Peter Tork did something.
Ronnie James Dio
Bit
Something
Sham
Know
Did
Mickey
Mike
Sang
Peter
I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.
Rupert Everett
First
Think
Rudimentary
Windows
Having
Sham
Like
Obviously
Microsoft
Human
Belief
The early music I heard was Top of the Pops. But in bedrooms, around the house with my brother playing the Sex Pistols, Sham 69 and the Ham and all these groups then going into that sort of mod turnover scene and then going into the New Romantics scene the coming of age myself in the mid-eighties and into the noughties, it was changing.
Sean Dyche
Music
Myself
Age
Sex
Changing
Top
Sex Pistols
Brother
Scene
Sham
New
House
Sort
Around
Ham
Bedrooms
Coming
Coming Of Age
Heard
Pistols
Going
Romantics
Then
Turnover
Pops
Groups
Early
Playing
I never liked going to school and would sham and play football. I played in the centre forward position. If ever given a choice, I would love to represent Barcelona.
Tiger Shroff
Love
School
Would
Given
Sham
Never
Football
Liked
Going
Represent
Centre
Barcelona
Choice
Forward
Ever
Play
Play Football
Played
Position
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
Richard Dawkins
Religion
Science
Marriage
Judge
Alleged
Shallow
Sham
Between
Empty
Honest
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