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The people of Butler Island spoke to me and demanded I bear witness for them.
Wendy Robie
Me
People
Witness
Bear
Spoke
Demanded
Island
Them
Butler
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
Whittaker Chambers
Man
Witness
Something
Only
Fact
He
Primarily
Against
Incidental
Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause - an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime.
William Bratton
Witness
Cause
Crime
Policing
Witnessed
Officer
Probable
Personally
Based
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
William Godwin
Witness
Imagination
Apprehend
Thousand
Must
Conceive
Powers
Exercise
Which
Room
Actually
Things
Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.
William Gurnall
Truth
Great
Grace
Strong
Witness
Degree
Indeed
Weak
Bear
Thy
Comforts
Than
Child
Lap
Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.
William Hamilton Maxwell
Me
Witness
Worse
Execution
Billing
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.
William Kingdon Clifford
Experience
Witness
Other
Consider
Saviour
Eastern
Followers
Only
Individual
Buddha
Support
Least
Authority
Social
Much
Appeal
Right
As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
Yo-Yo Ma
Witness
Musician
Kind
Unbelievable
Nomadic
Up
Different
Places
Show
Different Places
Things
I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
Yusef Komunyakaa
Witness
Define
Say
Kind
Daring
Responsible
Something
Risk
Poetry
Perhaps
Know
Because
Discovering
Existential
Question
Questioning
Celebration
Often
Energetic
Confrontation
Necessary
There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
Zoe Saldana
God
Day
Nature
You
Together
Witness
Try
Long
Become
Skin
Everything
Possibly
Comfortable
Without
Am
Going
Against
Your
Keep
We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
Marco Rubio
Witness
Will
Another
America
American
American Century
Doomed
Either
Century
Decline
Bring
We witness anti-Semitic attacks in the heart of Europe. We hear anti-Semitic slanders in European media. We feel anti-Semitic hatred in the continent that should have learned the lesson.
Ayelet Shaked
Heart
Witness
Hatred
Lesson
Attacks
Feel
Learned
Continent
Hear
Anti-Semitic
Should
Europe
European
Media
I have lived long enough to witness the vanishing of wild mammals, butterflies, mayflies, songbirds and fish that I once feared my grandchildren would not experience: it has all happened faster than even the pessimists predicted.
George Monbiot
Experience
Witness
Long
Faster
Enough
Wild
Once
Would
Vanishing
Feared
Fish
Mammals
Than
Happened
Predicted
Grandchildren
Pessimists
Even
Lived
Butterflies
Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.
Louis C. K.
Life
You
Witness
Possess
Something
Take
Part
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