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What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - was not how to lead a nation, but how, with sufficient toughness, to cheat the democratic system to get elected.
Nigel Hamilton
Nation
System
Memoirs
Toughness
Lead
He
Cheat
New
Democratic
Learned
How
George
His
Years
George W
George W. Bush
Get
Bush
Elected
Sufficient
We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.
Nigel Lawson
Enough
System
Sabbatical
Had
Had Enough
Opposition
God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own which would probably comprise a very low level of corporation tax - tax on corporate profits - and perhaps a low level of corporate sales tax, because sales are where they are, and sales in this country are sales here, which we can tax here.
Nigel Lawson
God
Country
Own
Corporate
Corporation
System
Introduce
Would
Kingdom
Take
Lead
Perhaps
Forbid
Because
Sales
Sales Tax
Very
Tax
Where
Sensible
Which
Tax System
Low
Should
United
United Kingdom
Level
Profits
Here
Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.
Niklaus Wirth
Construction
Programming
Adding
Our
System
Hierarchies
New
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Goal
Mean
Each
Functionality
We originally started AdNectar to serve brand advertisers, but we've now found that our publishers are greatly benefiting from integrating our system. In addition to a new revenue source and the data our API provides, it turns out users actually prefer branded over generic virtual items.
Nir Eyal
Virtual
Addition
Benefiting
Our
System
Out
Data
Generic
Over
New
Advertiser
Revenue
Source
Integrating
Provides
Greatly
Items
Brand
Branded
Prefer
Turns
Users
Originally
Found
Now
Serve
Publishers
Actually
Started
It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.
Noah Baumbach
Impossible
Black
Black And White
White
System
Make
Movie
Near
Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.
Noah Feldman
Constitution
Legal
Generation
Become
National
Every
Nine
Our
Way
System
Lawyers
Weighs
Supreme
Identity
Make
Supreme Court
Court
Era
National Identity
Legal System
Oracles
Gets
Central
Eventually
Deserves
The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.
Noam Chomsky
Construction
Engineering
Society
Changed
Project
Complex
System
Physical
Clearly
Massive
Very
America
Quite
Suburban
Elaborate
Social
Really
Social Engineering
Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.
Norm Coleman
Me
Change
Will
Older
Way
Those
System
Security
Folks
About
Shape
Clear
Retirement
Over
Retirement Security
Discussions
American
Any
Form
Social
Ifs
Who
Social Security
Social Security System
Buts
Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.
Norm Coleman
Great
News
Pressure
Example
Living
Society
Changed
Added
Our
Ways
System
Security
More
Retirement
Longer
Since
For Example
Also
Healthier
America
While
Placed
Social
Created
Productive
Social Security
Lives
Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.
Norman Foster
Future
Time
Needs
Sewer
System
Admire
London
He
Joseph
Beyond
Qualities
Anticipate
Sized
Which
Then
Created
Originally
Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic health depend on interstate commerce, it's not going to be private enterprise or state governments that will give you things like an interstate highway system.
Norman Ornstein
Government
Health
You
Will
Country
Depend
Interstate
State
State Governments
System
Enterprise
Significant
Give
Economic
Federal
Highway
Like
Inevitably
Private
Private Enterprise
Governments
Very
Commerce
Role
Going
Where
Infrastructure
Play
Things
No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.
Nouriel Roubini
Financial
Country
Complacent
Everything
System
Financial System
Weaknesses
No Country
Excess
Excessive
Household
Sure
Making
Debt
Interconnected
Create
I believe in the jury system.
O. J. Simpson
Believe
System
Jury
The apartheid system renounces no violence.
Oliver Tambo
System
Apartheid
Violence
I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.
Opal Tometi
Think
System
About
Generations
Very
Us
Worked
Working
Honest
Two-Party
We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.
Opal Tometi
People
Sit
Our
System
Out
Idly
Continue
Left
Hands
Disenfranchised
Being
For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
Orhan Pamuk
Me
Democracy
Respect
Rights
Dignity
People
Free
Free Speech
System
About
Consuming
Goods
Fanciful
Speech
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
Orison Swett Marden
Good
System
Road
Goal
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.
Orison Swett Marden
Work
Health
Day
Our
Worry
System
More
Week
Exhausting
Than
Order
Upsets
Whole
Keeps
I was the original little guy. This country gave me an opportunity. I want our tax system to do the same for others facing those same circumstances.
Orrin Hatch
Me
Opportunity
Country
Gave
Others
Our
Those
Circumstances
System
Guy
Facing
Same
Tax
Want
Little
Tax System
Original
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
Orson Pratt
Christianity
System
Invented
Absurdity
Idolatry
Heard
Modern
Anything
Far
Ever
I represent the interests of almost 90,000 human beings in our system. That's by far my first and foremost commitment.
Oscar Munoz
Commitment
First
Our
System
Almost
Foremost
Represent
Human
Human Beings
Far
Interests
Beings
I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.
Paddy Considine
You
Opportunity
Job
First
Older
Think
Films
System
Directing
More
Understand
How
Off
Privileged
America
Getting
Movie
Really
Ground
Works
Now
Start
My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
Park Geun-hye
Father
Poverty
Country
System
Out
Criticized
Brought
Restructuring
He
Democratization
Korea
His
Years
Accomplishments
Left
Dictator
Should
We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.
Park Geun-hye
Business
Change
Together
Big
Medium-Sized
System
Enterprises
Small
Economic
Develop
Economic System
Big Business
Dominated
Current
Where
Should
Groups
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