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Everybody in this society that has been lurching toward socialism and collectivism for 40 years has their hand out. And the propensity of Congress is to spend, spend, elect, elect. That hasn't changed, and it isn't going to change for a long time.
William E. Simon
Time
Change
Socialism
Long
Long Time
Congress
Society
Changed
Everybody
Spend
Out
Has-Been
Collectivism
Propensity
Toward
Been
Years
Hand
Going
Elect
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
William Falconer
Life
Health
Live
Society
Way
Those
Follow
Temptations
Crowded
Advantage
Least
Nor
Than
Fewer
Vice
Persons
Such A Way
Who
Expose
How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!
William Godwin
Man
Solitude
Society
How
Different
Creature
In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest load to sustain.
William Godwin
Society
Ranks
Highest
He
Wisely
Provided
Infamy
Heaviest
Sustain
Who
Stands
Load
The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.
William H. Gray
School
Minority
Free
Argument
Society
Minorities
Somehow
Colorblind
Pursuit
Scholarships
Fair
Implies
Equal
Got
Go
America
Get
Where
Rid
Funds
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
William H. Seward
Happiness
Government
Welfare
Protection
Political
Live
Society
State
States
Security
End
Organized
Who
United
Whose
United States
The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.
William H. Seward
War
Society
Resolve
State
Must
Would
Mutual
Some
Implies
Equal
Make
Perpetual
Right
Slave
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
William Hague
You
Change
Think
Society
Changes
Way
Those
Principles
Modern
Modern Society
Which
Apply
I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.
William Julius Wilson
Racism
First
Half
Society
Rising
Maintain
Reached
Period
Inequality
Came
Very
Close
Which
Peak
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.
William Kingdon Clifford
Society
Our
Guided
Our Lives
Has-Been
General
Purposes
Conception
Course
Been
Which
Social
Created
Lives
Things
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Sometimes
Impossible
Society
Our
Condition
Snob
Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
William Robertson Smith
Religion
Man
Welfare
Political
Community
Every
Society
Saving
Take
Had
He
Part
Souls
His
Exist
Domestic
End
Did
Break
Which
Necessary
Belonged
Every Man
Preservation
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs
People
Society
Dream
Weeks
Dead
Who
Two
Two Weeks
Our economic system has enabled companies and individuals to use their power and influence to capture and retain an ever-increasing share of the benefits of economic growth while the benefits for the poorest in society have shrunk.
Winnie Byanyima
Benefits
Power
Society
Our
System
Economic
Economic Growth
Retain
Share
Individuals
Economic System
Influence
While
Poorest
Use
Companies
Capture
Shrunk
Growth
Governments and civil society must step up to ensure inclusivity in the commissioning, design, delivery, and assessment of vital public services.
Winnie Byanyima
Design
Society
Ensure
Must
Civil
Vital
Civil Society
Delivery
Step
Governments
Up
Public
Assessment
Services
Civil society space provides the oxygen for citizens to participate and meaningfully hold their governments and the private sector to account - and ensure that decisions are made in the interest of the majority and not the few. Without it, citizens have limited space to dissent and challenge the elites.
Winnie Byanyima
Space
Challenge
Made
Few
Society
Dissent
Ensure
Sector
Citizens
Civil
Civil Society
Participate
Majority
Without
Limited
Private
Provides
Governments
Private Sector
Account
Oxygen
Hold
Interest
Decisions
Meaningfully
Elites
A good leader, in my view, should have a clear vision of the future they want and the society they need to build. They must also have a connection with the people who work for them and be able to mobilise their best energies to create teams where people can be most creative and happy.
Winnie Byanyima
Work
Future
Best
Good
Creative
Happy
People
Vision
Leader
Build
Society
Good Leader
Must
Able
Clear
Clear Vision
Most
Also
Where
Want
Energies
Them
Create
Should
View
Who
Connection
Teams
Need
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
Winona Ryder
Sad
Love
Become
Love Story
Cynical
Society
Our
Kind
Indication
How
Junk
Any
Automatically
Story
Theme
Sentimental
Ridiculed
Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.
Yair Lapid
Democracy
Women
Society
Jews
Arab
Features
Apartheid
Homosexuals
Christians
I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
Yang Lan
You
Women
Nowadays
Interpretation
Think
Society
Borders
Impact
Give
Boundaries
New
Terms
Also
Women Are
Trying
Breaking
An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society.
Yemi Osinbajo
Benefits
Active
Society
System
Vibrant
Many
Railway
If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes - it attacks the fundament of our existence as a society.
Yemi Osinbajo
Government
People
Nation
Society
Our
Resources
Ministers
Stealing
Attacks
Taking
Judges
Existence
Authority
May
Whether
Persons
Bribe
Whoever
Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global.
Yemi Osinbajo
Women
National
Society
Increasingly
Borders
Civil
About
Civil Society
Rising
Stepping
Global
Beyond
Also
Governance
National Borders
Improving
Going
Confident
Africa
Much
Standards
Who
Businessmen
Youths
The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.
Yo-Yo Ma
Music
Politicians
Think
Society
Diluted
Citizens
Classical
Classical Music
More
Could
Take
Between
Opera
Parts
Still
Tradition
Exists
Artists
Where
Intercourse
Place
Etc
Social
Much
Used
I believe an artiste is a reflection of society. I write what I see. I am not a scholar, I am just an entertainer. I cannot change the way people think.
Yo Yo Honey Singh
Change
People
Reflection
Believe
Think
Society
Way
Entertainer
See
Write
Scholar
Am
Artiste
Just
Cannot
We have demolished the biggest hindrance to the development of Uttar Pradesh - the menace of casteism and dynastic politics. The epicentre of development is now villages, poor, farmers, youth, women, traders, and, in fact, every section of the society.
Yogi Adityanath
Politics
Youth
Women
Every
Society
Section
Menace
Fact
Development
Hindrance
Demolished
In Fact
Biggest
Poor
Farmers
Villages
Now
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