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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana
Man
Eyes
World
Country
Feet
His
Survey
Should
Planted
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
Harvey Milk
Respect
Rights
People
Money
Remove
Give
Compromising
Individual
Takes
Survey
As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism.
Molly Ivins
Future
Kiss
Power
Discouraged
Corps
Press
Those
About
Journalism
Feel
Feet
Occasionally
Survey
Pack
Washington
Bellies
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Arthur Henderson
Confidence
Action
Carefully
Despair
Consider
Our
Address
Mood
Ourselves
Haste
Must
Take
Instead
Without
Survey
Quiet
Task
Common
Sober
Pause
Then
Us
Therefore
Let Us
Resolution
Position
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
David Letterman
Today
People
Three
Every
Out
New
Come
Make
Make Up
Up
Survey
USA
USA Today
Apparently
Population
Four
Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.
Alan Furst
Work
Best
Man
Our
Must
Havana
His
Spy
Survey
Any
May
Graham
Included
Novels
A Health Affairs study comparing patient-satisfaction scores with HCAHPS surveys of almost 100,000 nurses showed that a better nurse work environment was associated with higher scores on every patient-satisfaction survey question.
Alexandra Robbins
Work
Health
Better
Every
Nurse
Nurses
Higher
Environment
Almost
Study
Affairs
Question
Scores
Survey
Surveys
Work Environment
Comparing
Associated
When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency and accountability would improve healthcare.
Alexandra Robbins
Health
Accountability
Patient
Would
Administrators
Percent
Hospitals
Likely
Healthcare
Scores
Survey
Improve
Department
Human
Decided
Transparency
Figured
Base
Satisfaction
Reimbursement
Services
Medicare
We survey companies and ask them what the barriers to export and import are. Once we map these barriers, we sit down with the companies on one side and the government and regulatory agencies on the other and help them identify obstacles to trade and what has to be done to tackle them.
Arancha Gonzalez
Government
Sit
Down
Other
Side
Once
Tackle
Obstacles
Import
Identify
Trade
Survey
Done
Them
Agencies
Ask
Help
Regulatory
Export
Companies
Barriers
Map
My subcommittee will be thoroughly investigating this issue and demanding answers from Census officials on allegations that the Census Bureau is changing the wording of survey questions used to determine our nation's annual report on health insurance coverage.
Blake Farenthold
Health
Will
Demanding
Nation
Changing
Our
Thoroughly
Allegations
Determine
Investigating
Annual
Health Insurance
Insurance
Insurance Coverage
Answers
Subcommittee
Issue
Coverage
Questions
Survey
Report
Officials
Bureau
Census
Wording
Used
Our experience shows - and survey after survey reveals - institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.
Cherie Blair
Good
Democracy
Challenges
Women
Experience
Better
Society
Our
Run
Solving
Lead
Institutions
Involved
Equal
Does
Reveals
Healthier
Women Are
Survey
Representation
Just
After
Communities
Shows
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
Chevy Chase
You
Out
Responses
Bothered
Facts
Joking
Never
Check
Read
Survey
May
Who
Filled
A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.
Craig Kilborn
Phone
College
Other
Once
Month
Telephone
Says
Out
College Students
Percent
Drink
Students
Until
Answer
Pass
Least
Survey
I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
D. L. Hughley
Funny
Me
People
Somebody
Sold
Marketing
Says
Laugh
Tell
Telling
Know
Tickets
Make
Got
How
Survey
Behind
Miles
Million
Need
Desk
I run the largest survey company in the world. It just so happens to be the second-largest company run by someone in my house.
Dave Goldberg
World
Run
Someone
House
Survey
Just
Happens
Company
Largest
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
David Brin
Work
You
Science
Biology
Honestly
Rigorous
Find
Physical
Bet
Physical Science
More
Survey
Than
Often
Theme
Far
But I do think the survey group - and I think Charlie Duelfer is a great leader. I have the utmost confidence in Charles. I think you will get as full an answer as you can possibly get.
David Kay
Great
You
Confidence
Will
Leader
Group
Think
Possibly
Great Leader
Charles
Charlie
Answer
Survey
Get
Full
Utmost
In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.
David Kay
Work
You
Judgment
Group
Has-Been
Fact
Point
Clear
Terms
October
Been
Iraq
Survey
Reported
Done
In Fact
Based
Violation
It's essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: 'The Lusitania was sunk; the U.S. gets into World War I'.
Erik Larson
War
World
School
College
High
Sunk
High School
High School And College
Courses
Item
Timeline
Survey
Gets
Essentially
Taught
World War
World War I
People who teach American history survey classes have a lot of ground to cover and tend to focus on landmarks. You get through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and you have to get to the beginning of the 20th century fast. It's pretty easy to go lightly on the Gilded Age.
H. W. Brands
War
History
You
Age
People
Focus
Beginning
Easy
Gilded
Civil
Reconstruction
Classes
Pretty
Civil War
Tend
Through
Lightly
Go
Cover
Lot
Survey
Get
American
American History
Century
Landmarks
Teach
Ground
Who
Fast
When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.
James Buchan
Work
Great
World
Result
Thorough
William
Seemed
Generations
Fair
Come
Another
His
Survey
Commissioned
Succeeding
Realm
English
Dispassionate
Conqueror
When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.'
James Buchan
Great
Book
Result
National
UK
Boomers
Immediately
Inquisition
London
Brown
New
Gordon
His
Survey
Commissioned
Modern
So-Called
Which
Register
Realm
Asset
Treasury
You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.
James E. Rogers
Today
You
Vote
First
Would
Put
Fail
First Amendment
Were
Survey
Amendment
May
Popular
Aware
Recent
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
Janet Street-Porter
Good
Women
Book
Shopping
Sex
Would
Rather
Most
Read
Go
Survey
Than
Forget
Fiction
Romantic
Good Book
Found
Sleep
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
Jim Crace
You
Beneath
Oak
Thousand
Tales
Survey
Any
Stand
English
My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
Jim Fowler
Father
Soil
Geological
Scientist
Survey
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