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I believe that people of substantial wealth potentially create problems for future generations unless they themselves accept responsibility to use their wealth during their lifetime to help worthwhile causes.
Chuck Feeney
Future
People
Wealth
Problems
Responsibility
Believe
Unless
Future Generations
Worthwhile
Potentially
Lifetime
Generations
Accept
Causes
Substantial
Themselves
Create
Use
Help
And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.
Clare Short
Life
Anger
Suffering
Election
Has-Been
Muslim
Horrendous
General
General Election
Know
Knows
Came
Been
Loss
Substantial
Anyone
Anywhere
Who
Population
Near
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.
Daniel Kahneman
Seems
Attention
Substantial
Process
Your
Extent
Adaptation
You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.
Daniel Kahneman
Positive
Time
Tired
You
People
Emotions
Negative
Rare
Somewhere
Wish
Else
Pleasant
State
Pleased
Extremely
Somewhere Else
Part
Know
Most
Mostly
Were
Lot
Quite
Substantial
Standard
But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.
Daniel Yergin
Top
See
Supply
Over
Build-Up
Access
Coming
Years
Question
Getting
Substantial
Oil
Oil Companies
Fields
Agenda
Companies
Eventually
There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money.
Dave McClure
Facebook
Money
Three
Google
Big
Every
Those
Ideas
Return
Years
Big Ideas
Five
Going
Substantial
Really
Amount
I'm ashamed I didn't change my behavior until I was forced to do so by circumstance and by others. The reality is, I was stopped from further bad actions by those who spoke up about my offenses, at substantial risk to their personal and professional reputations... and subsequently, by Christine and others on the 500 team.
Dave McClure
Change
Reality
Behavior
Others
Further
Those
Circumstance
Bad
About
Risk
Spoke
Until
Forced
Up
Personal
Subsequently
Stopped
Substantial
Ashamed
Reputations
Team
Who
Professional
Actions
Christine
China's rise is really a kind of a world historical event. This is the largest country in the world. It has caused a wholesale substantial contraction of U.S. manufacturing employment.
David Autor
World
Country
Kind
Rise
Employment
Caused
Historical
Contraction
Substantial
China
Really
Manufacturing
Wholesale
Event
Largest
The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.
David Korten
Degree
First
Market
Market Economy
Small
Costs
Price
Implies
Economy
Principle
Another
Equity
Sellers
Substantial
Which
Producer
Many
Fundamental
Buyers
Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
David Souter
Power
Congress
Interstate
Effect
Commerce
Legislate
Substantial
Regard
Aggregate
Activity
Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm writing about ordinary people.
Doug Stanton
Life
Conflict
People
Writing
Opportunities
Dramatic
About
Superheroes
Talk
Provided
Person
Substantial
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Really
Moments
We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.
Douglas Feith
War
States
Pledged
Kinds
Support
Countries
Becomes
Provided
Iraq
Substantial
Event
United
United States
Necessary
Number
Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
Eduard Shevardnadze
Day
Will
Own
Other
Our
Resources
States
Determined
Netherlands
Count
Come
Provide
Germany
Substantial
Help
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
Fred Brooks
Problem
Introducing
Maintenance
Another
Fixing
Substantial
Fundamental
Defect
Chance
Program
My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.
Fred Saberhagen
Time
Long
Long Time
Feeling
Other
Books
Paper
Though
Gut
Gut Feeling
Quantities
Going
Substantial
Forms
Available
Us
Certainly
Now
Ink
It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.
George Galloway
Vote
College
Enough
President
President Bush
Fraud
Delivering
Clear
Thus
Substantial
Ohio
Bush
Electoral
Electoral College
When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem - they are a substantial part of the solution.
Gerald Chertavian
Problem
Opportunity
Young
Solution
Adult
Part
Sources
Expanding
Substantial
Young Adults
Businesses
At Year Up, our students - low income 18-24 year olds - come to us having already faced substantial obstacles in life. They are not in search of a handout; what they want most of all is the ability to take ownership of their own futures.
Gerald Chertavian
Life
Year
Own
Ownership
Our
Futures
Ability
Faced
Having
Take
Students
Obstacles
Come
Most
Up
Handout
Substantial
Want
Low
Low-Income
Us
Search
Income
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
Giacomo Casanova
Good
Me
Gratitude
Power
Has-Been
Kindly
Give
Had
Towards
Been
Friends
Substantial
Them
Acted
Fortune
Who
Good Fortune
Men and women of western Sydney, it's appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia's oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia's oldest surviving Government House. I hope the building's foundations are a bit more substantial than mine.
Gough Whitlam
Hope
Government
You
Women
Men
Men And Women
Building
Believe
Appropriate
Mine
Bit
Minister
More
Remarks
Prime
Prime Minister
House
Make
Western
Australia
Than
Surviving
Substantial
Should
Apparently
Foundations
Oldest
Sydney
We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.
Greg Ginn
Music
People
First
Enjoy
Our
Sold
Out
Would
Records
Could
Excited
Became
Felt
Always
Were
Get
Accustomed
Substantial
Them
Then
Number
Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.
Hart Crane
You
Stage
Organic
Doubt
Our
Presumption
Primary
Development
Know
Well
Method
Provide
Cultural
Quite
Substantial
Ordered
Manifestation
Epic
Means
Your
Bridge
Foundation
Present
We're seeing a lot of major companies as well as startups coming up with smartwatches that replicate a lot of the functionality you might have in your smartphone. Will it be as big a market as smartphones? Probably not, but it still can be a very substantial market.
Henry Samueli
You
Will
Big
Startups
Market
Seeing
Major
Well
Still
Coming
Lot
Up
Very
Replicate
Substantial
Might
Your
Companies
Functionality
'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.
Jack Reynor
Time
People
Relax
Rest
Three
Sit
Down
Enough
Enough Time
Our
Ability
Give
Given
Gives
Longer
Devices
Hours
Comfortable
How
Substantial
Transformers
Themselves
Amount
If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you're squandering what you have.
Jack Reynor
You
People
Opportunity
Responsibility
Enough
Otherwise
Broad
Scale
Entertain
Entertain People
Something
Take
Reach
Squandering
Just
Substantial
Saudi Arabia has been successful in preventing Houthi missiles from causing substantial damage. Yet, the inability of Saudi authorities in preventing Houthi missiles from being fired in the first place serves as an embarrassing reminder that the kingdom's leadership is unable to restrain their Iranian-backed opponent.
Jamal Khashoggi
Leadership
First
Unable
Embarrassing
Has-Been
Arabia
Kingdom
Restrain
Preventing
Fired
Reminder
Missiles
First Place
Opponent
Causing
Been
Authorities
Substantial
Being
Place
Inability
Successful
Serve
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Damage
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