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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Work
Dignity
Humanity
Excellence
Importance
Undertaken
Labor
Should
Painstaking
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington
War
Constitution
Power
Congress
Shall
Importance
Until
Undertaken
Subject
Offensive
Authorized
Expedition
After
Declaring
Measure
Therefore
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Would
Generalizations
Lead
Study
Absurd
Also
Undertaken
Prisons
Were
Human
Psychology
Certain
I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.
Toussaint Louverture
Work
Fight
Equality
Liberty
Cause
Brothers
Vengeance
Undertaken
Existence
Same
Want
Them
Us
Reign
Unite
Bring
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
Oliver Cromwell
Government
Sheep
Side
Would
Rather
Glad
Undertaken
Been
Than
Wood
Flock
Lived
Kept
Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse. Promoting democracy must be undertaken with humility, care, and wisdom.
Richard N. Haass
Wisdom
Democracy
World
Better
Care
Humility
Worse
Must
Promoting
Could
Make
Undertaken
Zeal
In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken.
Whitney Tilson
Life
Persistence
Confidence
Otherwise
Gives
Higher
Allow
Abundance
Undertaken
Motivation
Accomplish
Optimism
Might
Us
Things
With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions code and the role of the adjudicator will also be strengthened to provide fairness for all children.
David Blunkett
Needs
Director
School
Will
Community
Local
Local Community
Admission
New
Fair
Also
Schools
Fairness
Undertaken
Provide
Role
Children
Decisions
Rooted
Transparent
Standards
Code
Strengthened
If mountain gorillas are to survive and propagate, far more active conservation measures urgently need to be undertaken. The question remains, is it already too late?
Dian Fossey
Too Late
Active
Too
Late
More
Remains
Undertaken
Question
Mountain
Survive
To Survive
Urgently
Far
Measures
Need
Conservation
I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.
Evelyn Glennie
Hope
Journey
Me
Will
Isolation
Those
Follow
Seeds
Taken
Because
Undertaken
Up
Begun
Sown
Cannot
Who
Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.
Ferdinand Lassalle
War
Government
People
Dangerous
Will
Enthusiasm
Our
France
Must
Would
Would-Be
Supported
Development
Democratic
Blind
Undertaken
Effect
Revolutionary
Just
Against
Useful
Popular
It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.
Hjalmar Schacht
Energy
Increased
Statistics
Ministry
Above
Results
Since
Undertaken
Efforts
Essentially
Stands
Shown
Application
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
Irving Langmuir
Needs
History
Science
Pure
Benefit
Direct
Abundant
Without
Undertaken
Proves
Ultimately
Human
Regard
Mankind
Human Needs
Applications
What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It's imperative in any initiative that is undertaken that punishment be real and that there be truth in sentencing, and that the truly dangerous offenders - the recidivists and the career criminals - be put away and kept away.
Janet Reno
Truth
People
Dangerous
Past
Too
Criminals
Punishment
Out
Carry
Threatened
Be Real
Imperative
Put
Failed
Real
Undertaken
Truly
Offenders
Any
Often
Happened
In The Past
Sentencing
Initiative
Away
Career
Kept
The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.
John Boehner
Freedom
Training
Police
Job
Important
Difficult
Police Force
Most
Also
Force
Operation
Undertaken
Iraqi
Tasks
Being
The Most Important
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.
Julius Wellhausen
Age
Assumed
Books
Thorough
Kings
More
Towards
Judges
Undertaken
Condemns
Exile
End
Revision
Than
Samuel
Commonly
Much
Whole
A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.
Lewis Hallam
Journey
Travel
Money
Hundred
Without
Undertaken
Five
Land
Miles
Sea
Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.
Lucas Papademos
Justice
Speed
Delays
Could
Investment
Investors
Reduce
Undertaken
Discouraging
Very
Often
Which
No matter what job I've undertaken, whether it was Glory Kickboxing or Strikeforce or Pride Fighting Championships or Showtime Championship Boxing, you have to play by the rules of the company you work for.
Mauro Ranallo
Work
You
Pride
Matter
Job
Fighting
Kickboxing
Rules
Boxing
Glory
Undertaken
Whether
Company
Showtime
Play
Championship
Championships
It has been popular to threaten 'small islands and low-lying coasts' with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.
Nils-Axel Morner
Future
Past
Changes
Analysis
Has-Been
Threaten
Rise
Recorded
Scenarios
Small
Disastrous
Most
Islands
Undertaken
Been
Target
Either
Centuries
Sea
Popular
Flooding
Actual
Level
Present
Careful
As we know, menstrual hygiene is an issue women have been facing over the years. It's great that the initiative to provide low-cost sanitary napkins has been undertaken. It is an empowering step for many women.
Radhika Apte
Great
Women
Has-Been
Facing
Hygiene
Step
Over
Know
Empowering
Undertaken
Issue
Been
Provide
Years
Low-Cost
Sanitary
Many
Initiative
Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.
Rowan Williams
Judge
Own
State
Way
Visible
Administration
Attention
Without
Undertaken
Due
Private
Private Person
Person
Process
Interest
Persons
International
Agreed
Acts
Violence
I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Prayer
Practice
Penance
Would
Rather
Gladly
Know
Undertaken
Than
Heavy
Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.
Stacy Schiff
Book
Anxiety
Insofar
Previous
New
New Book
Reaction
Undertaken
May
Influence
Each
Aspen's investment in TesoRx will assist in the work being undertaken to bring this product to market and in investing behind TesoRx's pipeline and technology that has the potential to be used for a wide range of different applications.
Stephen Saad
Work
Technology
Will
Market
Range
Potential
Investing
Investment
Undertaken
Pipeline
Behind
Being
Different
Product
Aspen
Used
Wide
Wide Range
Applications
Assist
Bring
There's been an unfortunate history of efforts to make sure Florida's votes don't count. Given that history, it's clear why people here would be especially concerned about efforts undertaken by Super PACs and the corporations that fund them to dictate the outcome of elections.
Ted Deutch
History
People
Corporations
Would
Outcome
Would-Be
Super
About
Given
Count
Clear
Votes
Concerned
Make
Sure
Undertaken
Been
Dictate
Efforts
Unfortunate
Them
Elections
Fund
Why
Florida
Here
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