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World War II was the last government program that really worked.
George Will
War
Government
History
World
Government Program
Worked
Really
Last
World War
Program
World War II
The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
Georges Simenon
Me
Communication
People
World
Impossible
Complete
Those
Fact
Between
Know
How
Tragic
Biggest
Themes
Many
Millions
Two
Millions Of People
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
Gerard De Nerval
Life
Dreams
World
Our
Our Dreams
Those
Penetrate
Able
Never
Invisible
Without
Been
Ivory
Which
Us
Separate
Shudder
Second
Gates
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
Giacomo Leopardi
Smile
World
Become
Thoroughly
Reconciled
No-One
He
Him
Knows
Does
Begins
Disenchanted
Disgusted
Utterly
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
Gilbert Murray
Happiness
Life
Property
Man
World
Liberty
Complicated
Seen
Mercy
Few
Absolute
Throughout
Never
He
Involved
Quarrels
Heard
Common
Common Man
Persons
Whom
If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word.
Giles Andreae
Beautiful
Depression
Me
Joy
World
Gift
Simple
Word
Rare
Our
One Thing
Delight
Feel
Another
Spread
Human
Taught
Capacity
Reason
Now
Why
Compelled
Thing
Treasure
Here
Our mission is to empower people to experience the world.
Gillian Tans
Experience
People
World
Our
Mission
Empower
For too long, the world has been focused on short-term growth and development at the expense of our long-term survival as we have depleted our natural resources at historically reckless rates.
Gisele Bundchen
Survival
Natural
World
Long
Too
Our
Resources
Reckless
Focused
Has-Been
Rates
Development
Long-Term
Been
Historically
Expense
Depleted
Short-Term
Natural Resources
Growth
There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.
Gloria Steinem
World
Year
Lost
Every
Simply
Because
Female
Six
Lives
Million
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
Godfrey Reggio
Change
Peace
World
Live
World Peace
Think
Naive
Pray
Pray For
Going
Form
Which
We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.
Gordon B. Hinckley
You
World
Evil
Poison
Live
Filth
Filthy
Stay
Touch
Afford
Cannot
Avoid
Filled
Away
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Graham Greene
World
Lost
Innocence
Like
His
Dumb
Wandering
Meaning
Leper
Who
Bell
Harm
The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.
Greg Boyle
World
Matter
Other
Out
Taken
Wrong
Idea
Than
Just
Might
Root
Less
Lives
The CIA's always-useful World Fact book says that a staggering 6.3 million Colombians have been internally displaced (IDP) since 1985, with 'about 300,000 new IDPs each year since 2000,' the year Bill Clinton enacted Plan Colombia. Added up, that's 2.4 million people during Clinton's eight-year presidency.
Greg Grandin
CIA
Book
People
World
Year
Added
Presidency
Says
About
Colombia
Fact
Since
New
Been
Clinton
Up
Staggering
Plan
Bill
Bill Clinton
Displaced
Each
Each Year
Million
Million People
There are millions of people around the world that want to be artists and want to make stuff to entertain people, but nobody cares.
Greg Sestero
People
World
Nobody Cares
Cares
Entertain
Entertain People
Nobody
Stuff
Make
Around
Artists
Want
Millions
Millions Of People
When I got out of high school, I thought, 'I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.' More than 40 years later, I figure it's finally time to write about this crazy journey that's taken me around the world and back.
Gregg Allman
Time
Journey
Me
Crazy
World
School
Thought
Year
Back
Later
Finally
System
Out
High
High School
About
More
Write
Take
Taken
Around
Got
Go
Years
Off
Than
Get
Clubs
Then
Figure
Play
Two
You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.
Gregg Easterbrook
Good
You
World
Mind
Whatever
Would
Would-Be
Some
Could
Part
Like
Spontaneous
Know
Read
Blog
Blogs
Diaries
Diary
Your
Theory
Pops
If I had any advice to give people, it would be to relax; never treat an audition like an emergency. There will be plenty more in your career. If you think you messed up, you probably didn't. And if you did mess up, it's not the end of the world.
Gregg Sulkin
You
People
World
Treat
Relax
Will
Advice
Think
Plenty
Would
Would-Be
Emergency
Give
More
Never
Had
Like
Mess
Messed
Messed Up
Audition
End
Up
End Of The World
Did
Any
Your
Career
At first, people think about vegetarian food like, 'Here's some veggies. Here's some pasta.' But there's so much more you can do in the vegetarian and vegan world.
Guy Fieri
Food
You
People
World
Vegan
First
Think
Some
About
More
Vegetarian
Like
First People
Pasta
Much
Here
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
Guy Kawasaki
People
World
Smart
Owes
Rules
Something
Wrong
Well-Meaning
Get
Different
Them
Believing
Start
Start Believing
We can't expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.
Gwen Ifill
Generation
World
Better
Something
Leave
Itself
Expect
Get
Create
Next
Next Generation
Too bad integration didn't come sooner, because there were so many ballplayers that could have made the major leagues. That's why, you look back, and - not to take away anything from Babe Ruth or some of those other guys - they didn't play against the greatest ballplayers in the world.
Hank Aaron
You
World
Made
Too
Other
Back
Those
Bad
Some
Guys
Ruth
Could
Take
Sooner
Major
Leagues
Come
Look
Major Leagues
Because
Greatest
Were
Integration
Anything
Against
Many
Why
Away
Play
Babe
Babe Ruth
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
World
Sadness
Word
Beauty
Own
Our
Ancient
Both
Imperceptibly
New
Bid
Without
Understand
Leaving
Itself
New World
Refused
Which
Disinterested
Avarice
Interests
Farewell
In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties.
Harry Browne
People
World
Welfare
Free
Country
State
Relatively
Liberties
Possible
Civil
Civil Liberties
Proof
Inspiration
Over
Looked
Welfare State
Foreign
Existence
Very
America
Tax
Wars
Peaceful
Income
Income Tax
The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.
Harry Dean Stanton
Life
Freedom
Experience
World
Responsibility
Own
Everybody
Take
Most
Terrifying
Real
Real Freedom
Western
Western World
Your
Whole
Thing
'Alien?' Oh, yeah. I still get fanmail almost every week, pictures from all over the world on that movie. That's one of the most popular films I've done.
Harry Dean Stanton
World
Alien
Every
Films
Week
Almost
Over
Pictures
Most
Still
Yeah
Get
Done
Oh
Oh Yeah
Movie
Popular
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