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Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. Andrew Weil

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Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. George Papandreou

Government Confidence Legal Corruption Money Political Pay Consequences State Our System Enterprises Citizens Nepotism Undermined Government Agencies Legal System Political System Unfortunately Public Agencies Taxes Many Wasting Widespread

We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent! Pliny the Elder

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I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem. Alex Gibney

Problem Big Own Radical Think Ways Paranoid Both Instead Feel Mission Undermined Became Came His Ultimately Big Problem Transparency

Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a single vision as to how to tell a story. It's like if you were at a campfire, and everyone is taking turns to give one sentence in telling a horror story. It would be a mess - it's not going to make sense. Duncan Jones

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In particular, Kissinger was a key player during a transformative period of the imperial presidency, in the 1960s and '70s, when the Vietnam War undermined the traditional foundations on which it had stood since the early years of the Cold War: elite planning, bipartisan consensus, and public support. Greg Grandin

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Although combat operations unseated the Taliban and the Saddam Hussein regime, a poor understanding of the recent histories of the Afghan and Iraqi peoples undermined efforts to consolidate early battlefield gains into lasting security. H. R. McMaster

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America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends. John Olver

War World Result Rest Lost President President Bush Our High Moral Administration High Ground Outlawed Tactics Allies Undermined Terror Condemned His Friends America Closest Closest Friends Fewer Bush Ground International Using Even Treaty

This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise. John Sarbanes

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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined. Katherine Anne Porter

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So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible. Ludwig Quidde

Peace Law Protection Impossible Long Country Military Must Case Argue Attained Disarmament Until Undermined Advocate

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids. Michelle Obama

It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.' Robert Byrd

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We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth. Robert Reich

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We cannot afford to have the confidence of the public, victims, and witnesses in our justice system undermined because the wrong people are being found guilty and the real criminals are wandering the streets. Sadiq Khan

Assertions that Russia has undermined efforts to strengthen partnerships on the European continent do not correspond to the facts. Sergei Lavrov

Correspond Russia Facts Undermined Partnerships Continent Efforts European Strengthen

The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality. Stewart Udall

Government Democracy Justice Crushed Secrecy Distorted Lies Weapons Atomic Morality Induced Undermined According Surrounding Conduct American Race Us

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land. Stockwell Day

When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attention from their own egregious human rights abuses and attempt to pass judgment on Israel - a country with a vibrant liberal democracy - the credibility of the UNHRC is further undermined, and the United States must not be silent. Todd Young

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Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined. Tom Lantos

Faith Government Anger Financial Political Build Own Military States Has-Been Citizens Support Towards New Undermined New Government Been Iraqi Popular Resentment United United States

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