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All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.
John Hodgman
Me
Sports
Society
Please
Telling
Like
Stop
Ask
Should
Why
People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.
John Hodgman
Experience
People
Seriously
Will
Become
Society
President
Secret
Enter
Run
Bizarre
Had
None
Which
Us
Who
Ever
It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.
John Holdren
Environmental
You
Balance
Yourself
Society
Kidding
Those
Only
Costs
Consumers
Exclude
Economically
Balance Sheets
Sheets
Irrational
Producers
Export
Large
Whole
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
John Holmes
Own
Transformation
Radical
Every
Society
Cringe
Would
Adult
Develop
Allowed
He
Instincts
Undergo
Make
Genuine
Boy
Were
His
According
Revolutionary
Rebel
At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.
John Hutton
Challenges
Heart
Society
Types
Those
Lies
Civil
Civil Society
Laws
Implemented
Economy
Institutions
Make
Pass
How
Question
Effectiveness
Which
Union
European
European Union
We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.
John Katzman
Problem
Problems
Society
Easy
Plug
Look
Get
Just
Bigger
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Should
Rid
Sat
Fast
Right
Pull
I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.
John Key
People
Think
Society
Fact
Part
New
Most
Proud
Built
New Zealand
Multicultural
Zealand
Foundation
If we are going to remake society in the image of the fight against terrorism and put that secret fight at the heart of our democratic order - which is the way we're heading - we need to discuss it, and in public.
John Lanchester
Terrorism
Heart
Fight
Society
Secret
Our
Way
Remake
Put
Heading
Democratic
Discuss
Going
Order
Which
Against
Public
Image
Need
I think it would be bad for storytellers in general if one company was able to seize a 40-50-60% share in storytelling. I don't think monopoly market shares are good for society, and I think they'd be particularly bad for society and storytellers if they were achieved in the storytelling genre.
John Landgraf
Good
Think
Society
Monopoly
Market
Bad
Would
Would-Be
Able
General
Seize
Share
Shares
Particularly
Genre
Were
Achieved
Storytellers
Storytelling
Company
There may be some difficulties, some interruptions, but as a nation and as a people, we are going to build a truly multiracial, democratic society that maybe can emerge as a model for the rest of the world.
John Lewis
People
World
Rest
Build
Nation
Society
Difficulties
Some
Emerge
Democratic
Democratic Society
Truly
Model
Going
May
Maybe
Interruptions
It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
John Lydon
Me
You
Made
Society
Horrible
Just
Where
Repressive
Honest
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
John Major
Needs
Society
More
Understand
Condemn
Little
Less
Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society - which interests the heart. Every day, you may see something new, magnificent & beautiful; every night, you may see a spectacle which astonishes & enchants the imagination.
John Marshall
Beautiful
Day
You
Heart
Every Day
Believe
Every
Society
Imagination
Dissipation
See
Something
Paris
Something New
Magnificent
New
Very
May
Which
Little
Interests
Inhabitants
Incessant
Even
Round
Spectacle
Every Night
Night
Amusement
Presents
There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.
John McCarthy
Made
Promises
Society
Harmful
One Thing
More
Only
Only One Thing
He
Than
Forget
Get
Official
Forgetting
Order
Them
Elected
Thing
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
John McGahern
Sense
Society
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
About
Almost
Up
Ireland
Century
Then
Twentieth
Twentieth Century
Peculiar
Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.
John Naisbitt
Nature
Spiritual
Technology
Balance
Human Nature
Society
Our
Response
High
Introduced
Must
Touch
Demands
New
Learn
Material
New Technology
Wonders
Human
Whenever
Rejected
The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
John Naisbitt
Technology
People
Shopping
Will
Society
Other
Introduce
More
More People
Concerts
Rock
Rock Concerts
Want
Movies
Aggregate
Let those who like society better have it.
John Nelson Darby
Better
Society
Those
Like
Who
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
John Polanyi
Knowledge
Responsibility
Rest
Power
Think
Society
Others
Because
Scientists
Derives
Special
Coerce
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
John Polanyi
Responsibility
Sense
United Nations
Society
Unmistakable
Thousands
Civil
Civil Society
Voices
Shared
New
Nations
Agencies
International
United
China is a very brand-intensive society. The reason that brands are so very important is that they are a way to signal social status.
John Quelch
Important
Society
Way
Signal
Status
Very
Brands
China
Social
Reason
The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very big middle-class in the middle, and an enormous percentage of the population in the bottom part of the pyramid.
John Ralston Saul
Wealth
Pure
Big
Group
Society
Enormous
Top
Percentage
Small
Small Group
Bottom
Part
Pyramid
Very
Model
Middle
Capitalist
Population
I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.
John Rhys-Davies
Respect
Islam
Live
Society
Muslim
Would
Lot
Organised
Aspects
Choose
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.
John Roberts
Good
People
Own
Society
Would
Would-Be
Fail
Often
Them
Reasons
Things
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin
Good
Society
Pictorial
Diseases
Done
Representation
Ever
Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.
John Sentamu
Family
Marriage
Better
Made
Believe
Society
Would
Kinship
Simply
Individuals
Between
Implications
Private
Contract
Wider
Two
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