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As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.
David Blunkett
Hope
Home
Knowledge
Secretary
Way
System
Never
Individuals
Access
Courts
Unfamiliar
Former
Workings
I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots.
David Blunkett
Politics
Free
Right-Wing
System
Asylum
Run
Entry
Come
Deal
Issue
Bigots
Working
Illegal
A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.
David Bohm
Together
Sense
Society
Corporation
System
Some
Only
Also
Department
Any
Meaning
Body
Separately
Organized
Function
Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.
David Bohm
People
Thought
Feelings
Society
State
Back
System
Ancient
Ancient Times
Evolved
Similarly
Only
Between
Passing
Times
Process
Which
Forth
Body
Whole
Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
David Bowie
System
Bad
Nonexistent
Very
Use
England
English
Radio
Media
The Enlightenment diamond-shaped society, with a huge, prosperous, socially-mobile, empowered middle class, is by far the most productive and creative system the world has ever seen.
David Brin
Class
Creative
World
Seen
Society
System
Prosperous
Most
Empowered
Huge
Middle
Middle Class
Far
Productive
Ever
Enlightenment
The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
David Cameron
Broken
People
Political
Country
Society
State
Our
System
About
Economy
Political System
Depressed
Why
I am a very instinctive Conservative. I have created a welfare system where it pays to work. I have created independent schools within the state sector bringing excellence to children wherever they are.
David Cameron
Work
Conservative
Welfare
State
Sector
System
Independent
Excellence
Instinctive
Schools
Within
Am
Very
Where
Children
Wherever
Created
Pays
Bringing
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?
David Chalmers
System
Correlate
Exactly
Given
Neural
Does
Mean
Consciousness
The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.
David Chase
Home
You
Too
Way
System
Systems
TV
About
Never
Always
Sound
Huge
Get
Same
Screen
Movies
Even
Now
Thing
It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.
David Cone
Think
Starts
Kick
System
February
Miss
Underestimated
Around
How
How Much
Juices
Clock
Gets
Going
Much
Really
Your
Internal
Baseball
Baseball Players
Start
Players
Flow
The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.
David Filo
Phone
Internet
System
Nearly
The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.
David Gill
Success
Me
World
Job
Year
Sit
Down
System
Through
Football
Look
Academy
Coming
His
Manager
Happening
Board
European
Whose
Assess
Humanity has at least a dim, and growing, cognisance of the effects of its presence on this planet. The possibility that we might integrate that awareness into how we interface with the Earth system is one that should give us hope.
David Grinspoon
Hope
Humanity
Awareness
Earth
Dim
System
Possibility
Give
How
Least
Integrate
Effects
Might
Us
Planet
Interface
Should
Growing
Presence
As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now be called 'young adult' novels of adventures in the solar system.
David Grinspoon
Solar
Young
Solar System
Kid
System
Would
Geek
Total
Adult
Adventures
Became
Grade
Young Adult
Asimov
Lucky
Series
Novels
Now
Started
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
David Hare
Politics
Great
Business
System
Entrepreneurial
Just
Capitalist
Function
Now
Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they're successful; most times, they're not. But the system has rebalanced toward the basic principles of tolerance, freedom and democracy that were set forth by the Founders.
David Ignatius
Freedom
Democracy
History
Political
Tolerance
Other
Our
System
Throughout
Toward
Come
Come And Go
Most
Occasionally
Principles
Go
Were
Political History
Times
Forth
Successful
Founders
Basic
Basic Principles
Set
The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.
David Ignatius
Leadership
Better
Political
Problems
Nation
Chronic
System
Weakness
Able
Most
Than
Manage
Political System
Which
Dysfunction
Elect
Should
Competitors
The revival of the U.S. financial system after the crash of 2008 is arguably the Obama administration's biggest domestic policy success.
David Ignatius
Success
Financial
System
Financial System
Obama
Administration
Arguably
Policy
Domestic
Domestic Policy
Revival
After
Crash
Biggest
I say we put a choice card in every veteran's hands to say, 'You choose.' You control your health care. If you want to go to the VA, which most veterans like, go to the VA. But if you want to go outside of the system, here's your choice card. You go outside of the system.
David Jolly
Health
You
Veteran
Veterans
Care
Control
Every
Say
System
Outside
Put
Like
Most
Health Care
Go
Hands
Want
Which
Choice
Your
Choose
Card
VA
Here
Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.
David Limbaugh
Government
Best
Health
World
Care
Will
Limited Government
Oppose
Our
Liberties
Destroy
System
Obamacare
Idea
Health Care
Because
Health Care System
Understand
Limited
American
Inconsistent
Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there's a lot of people, there's money, there's a big machine to kind of make it - and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process.
David MacKenzie
Creative
People
Money
Creative Process
Big
Way
Machine
System
Kind
Find
Through
Allow
Make
Because
How
Continue
Methods
Lot
Process
Processes
Mean
Your
Hard
Lively
Filmmaking
It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate. It's because our system is set up to block tax reform.
David Malpass
World
Our
Corporate
System
Rate
Terms
Because
Block
Up
Reform
Tax
Place
Tax Rate
Tax Reform
Last
Set
Coincidence
In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
David Miliband
Work
Education
Welfare
Young
System
Over
Housing
Unemployed
Transport
Prescribed
Britain
The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.
David Minge
Work
Legal
Important
Our
System
Part
Important Part
Legal System
Interesting
Challenging
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
David Ogden Stiers
You
Television
System
Operating
Operating System
Go
Crapshoot
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