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Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. John McCain

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Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed. Al Gore

Today Tomorrow Will Worldwide Response More Environment Failed Feel Sharply Until Reducing Dump Effective Dumping Pollution Million Start Tons

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart. Alan Greenspan

Fear Fall Down Critical Slowly Bubbles Contagion Sharply Look Forces Sort Builds Causes Go Intellectually Up Dominant Very Shocked Hits Size Which Apart Then Euphoria Many Thing Started Phenomenon

Upward mobility across classes peaked in the U.S. in the late 19th century. Most of the gains of the 20th century were achieved en masse; it wasn't so much a phenomenon of great numbers of people rising from one class to the next as it was standards of living rising sharply for all classes. You didn't have to be exceptional to rise. Ben Fountain

Great You Class People Living Late Classes Rise Rising Exceptional Sharply Most Masse Were Mobility Achieved Upward Upward Mobility Gains Century Much Next Across Standards Peaked Phenomenon Numbers

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas. Bobby Ray Inman

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On some issues, Republicans and Democrats disagree so sharply that compromise is nearly impossible. Republicans are not going to support a cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gases, and Democrats won't support a 1,000-mile wall on the border with Mexico. Cass Sunstein

The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species. Frans de Waal

Love Relationship Joy Animals Own Tremendous Members Intuitive Unconditional Unconditional Love Feel Sharply Source Contrast Artifice Lack Children Much Connection Pets Species Received

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles. Fred Ward

Freedom History Women Men Gender Think Positions Defined Those Various Struggling Point Allow Freedom From Sharply Redefine Roles Trying

When people retire, their income drops much more sharply than their consumption. As a result, they stop saving and start drawing down the assets they've acquired during their high-saving years. That could start to put upward pressure on interest rates and downward pressure on stock prices. Greg Ip

People Result Pressure Down Saving Drawing Rates More Could Prices Put Consumption Retire Drops Sharply Years Stock Than Stop Upward Interest Interest Rates Acquired Much Income Assets Downward Start

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. Imre Lakatos

Experiment Relation Indeed Between Naive Sharply Theory Differs

The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast. Isabella Bird

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Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light. Jerry Saltz

Life You World Water Light Seen Sense Every Speed Flux Defined Give More Could Sharply Lilies Than Intensified Where Eternal Far Moment Captured Portrayed

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do. Leonard Alfred George Strong

Work People Distinguish Seem Seems Both Remark Prose Between Sharply Most Source Truism Person Place Places

Prime ministers come and go, but so long as he or she lives, the sovereign remains, receiving and reading all state papers and meeting once a week with the prime minister to advise, enquire, and comment - sometimes sharply, as was the case with Queen Elizabeth II and Mrs. Thatcher - on affairs of state. Michael Korda

Queen Sometimes Long Reading State Meeting Once Once A Week Papers Minister Ministers Case Week Remains He He Or She Prime Prime Minister Prime Ministers Sharply Come Come And Go She Advise Go Affairs Comment Sovereign Thatcher Lives Receiving Elizabeth

It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's 'The Birth of the Pill,' I have no other recourse, since his narrative is full of larger-than-life characters sharply limned and embarked on fascinating doings, their story told in sprightly visual fashion. Paul Di Filippo

Fashion Book Other Birth Embarked Characters Visual Case Recourse Remark Jonathan Since Sharply Like Cliche Narrative Reads Nonfiction Pill His Just Story Full Certainly Fascinating Novel

Mattis has been sharply critical of President Barack Obama's policies on Iran and Obama's capping of troop numbers and campaign end-dates in theaters of war such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Mattis also appears to be a skeptic of the Obama-era policy of putting women into combat roles. Peter Bergen

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Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back? Robert Dallek

However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism. Simon Mainwaring

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What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Life Man People Own Those Circumstance Prolonged Out Details Absence He Countries Sharply Until Make Returns Always Foreign Foreign Countries His Impression Surroundings Very Same After Which Newest While Little Land Then Stand

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined. Trofim Lysenko

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