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The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also, I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind.
George Michael
Me
Problems
Mind
Think
State
Back
Bit
Ways
Physical
Some
Could
Had
Toured
Disaster
Also
Sorted
Were
Personal
Just
Personal Level
Many
Now
Right
Level
The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.
George Osborne
Government
Conservative
Party
Thinking
Conservative Party
Enough
State
Way
Says
Out
Strongest
Itself
Role
Get
Just
Should
Strand
State ownership of flood control efforts will not completely eliminate the problem but can substantially reduce it.
George P. Bush
Problem
Will
Control
Ownership
State
Reduce
Efforts
Substantially
Flood
Eliminate
There must be an authority at the state level to coordinate flood mitigation projects in upstream watersheds. Additionally, this state entity could bring together multiple stakeholders to benefit all communities in the region.
George P. Bush
Together
State
Benefit
Additionally
State Level
Projects
Must
Entity
Could
Authority
Upstream
Region
Stakeholders
Communities
Multiple
Flood
Coordinate
Level
Bring
Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.
George P. Shultz
You
People
State
Secretary
Trips
Know
Talk
Am
Oh
Just
Successful
This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.
George Papandreou
You
Change
Tough
State
Guy
Tough Guy
Idea
Got
Deceive
Taxes
Successful
We have made major reforms in Greece. When I took over after a landslide victory we had a mandate for change and I knew my major focus would be re-organizing the state.
George Papandreou
Change
Victory
Focus
Made
State
Took
Would
Would-Be
Had
Knew
Over
Major
Greece
Reforms
Mandate
After
Landslide
You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.
George Pataki
You
Enormous
Others
State
Some
Area
Students
Know
Doing
Providing
Where
Help
For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.
George Pataki
Time
Eyes
First
State
Local
Ears
Further
Attacks
Federal
Investigation
Protect
First Time
Effort
Against
Us
Coordinating
Serve
The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason.
George Smathers
People
Will
State
Our
Longer
Advocate
Tolerate
Treason
Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?
George Smathers
Leader
Side
State
Ruin
Johnson
Between
Am
Caught
Dear
Dear Friend
Go
His
Friend
Personal
Going
Anyway
Whip
Who
Kennedy
Here
But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.
George Smathers
Son
Long
President
State
Favorite
Run
Would
Would-Be
Johnson
Dividing
Long Story
Announced
Make
Up
Going
Short
Stop
Decided
Story
Florida
Kennedy
Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to believe that the market mechanism can take care of all the problems.
George Soros
Problems
Care
Negative
Believe
State
Market
Recognize
Take
Generally
Take Care
Leads
Economy
Inefficient
Always
Role
Them
Mechanism
Connotations
Fundamentalists
Disruptive
The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.
George Will
Politics
War
Age
Women
Benefits
Entitlement
Welfare
Men
Entitled
Congress
State
Enriching
Collect
Security
Menu
Welfare State
Bidding
Becomes
Quickly
Established
Social
Act
Social Security
Extending
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
George Will
Work
Freedom
World
Space
Mind
Lost
Sense
Live
Innocence
State
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Back
Melancholy
Minimal
Out
Something
Vast
Could
Suppose
Very
American
Which
Work Out
Jefferson
Tone
Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.
George Will
Law
Country
State
Critics
Some
Seem
Federal
Arizona
Makes
Understand
Offense
Jurisdiction
Being
Assert
Right
Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.
Georges Cuvier
Life
Today
Time
Long
Long Time
Mountains
Waters
State
Our
Highest
Thus
Masses
Were
Covered
Denied
Did
Liquid
Any
Sustain
Form
Cannot
Which
Originally
But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.
Georges Cuvier
Changes
State
Earth
Ancient
Responsible
Layers
New
Limited
Revolutions
Upsetting
After
Which
Sea
Strata
Present
Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.
Gerald McRaney
State
Sold
About
He
New
Town
Know
Houses
Built
Were
Lot
Moved
Moved On
Native
Dad
There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.
Gerhard Schroder
Conflict
State
Markets
Open
Between
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.
Gerrit Smith
Suits
Sometimes
Nothing
State
Claim
Concern
North
Therefore
Slavery
The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.
Gerrit Smith
Respect
Rights
State
Claim
Only
Neutral
Protected
She
Concerned
Hands
Which
Far
Ground
If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.
Gerry Adams
Me
You
People
State
Took
Unnecessary
Degrading
Indicted
Guys
Beat
Unconscious
Baggage
Over
Days
Period
End
Up
Forgive
Them
Shot
Who
Inhuman
Even
British
Treatment
I used to practice those trampoline dunks back at Golden State. I can flip and everything.
Gilbert Arenas
Practice
State
Back
Everything
Those
Trampoline
Golden
Used
Flip
I went to public and state schools - not at the same time. I did my art foundation course at Harrogate College of Arts. This brilliant tutor suggested I apply to Central Saint Martins. I adored it.
Giles Deacon
Art
Time
Brilliant
College
State
Adored
Schools
Course
Saint
Did
Same
Same Time
Arts
Central
Public
Tutor
Foundation
Apply
Suggested
It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.
Gilles Duceppe
State
Thriving
Falsehood
Communities
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