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It's hard to say what the Founding Fathers would think of the modern presidency.
John Dickerson
Think
Presidency
Fathers
Say
Would
Modern
Hard
Founding
Founding Fathers
With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.
John Dramani Mahama
You
People
Progress
Better
Sometimes
Before
Expectation
Think
Worse
High
Would
Kinds
Seeing
Know
Understand
Overnight
Very
Gets
Often
Africa
Want
Happen
Who
Even
Things
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
John Dryden
Future
Joy
Fate
Before
Busy
Must
Would
Find
Seek
More
Only
Concealed
Know
Most
Sorrows
Known
Reveal
Were
Person
Where
Much
Fortunes
Busy Person
Flows
I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.
John F. Kerry
Would
Rather
NAACP
Than
Candidate
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.
John Henrik Clarke
Conflict
Reality
World
Strictly
Way
States
Enter
Would
About
Date
Prophecy
Had
Maintain
Over
Been
Up
Dominance
Scramble
December
Formal
After
Harbor
European
Whole
Now
United
United States
Bombing
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
John Henry Newman
Our
Minds
Must
Would
Know
Make
Make Up
Up
Anything
Much
Ignorant
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
John Heywood
Cake
Would
Eat
Both
Your
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats
Would
Fail
Sooner
Greatest
Than
Among
In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn't or couldn't pass the literacy test.
John Lewis
You
Vote
Age
People
Voting
Down
Tell
Would
Percent
Blacks
Only
Could
Attempt
Had
Over
Pass
Courthouse
Test
Go
Were
Literacy
So-Called
Place
Again
Register
Registered
Alabama
There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.
John Lithgow
You
Would
Entertaining
Adult
Than
Difference
Children
Little
Little Children
Less
Imagine
Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.
John Lydon
Myself
Good
Others
Would
Want
Then
Full
Full-On
Honest
If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.
John Marshall
Truth
Character
Son
Mother
Wish
Important
Think
Beneficial
Considerable
Would
Toward
Performance
She
Him
Does
How
Making
Fitted
Essential
Duties
Children
Forming
Agency
Much
Should
Her
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard Keynes
Humble
People
Thought
Would
Would-Be
Could
Splendid
Economists
Get
Manage
Themselves
Level
Competent
I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.
John McCain
World
Seen
Wish
Would
Would-Be
Share
How
Really
Certainly
You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.
John McCain
You
People
Party
Think
Our
Would
Would-Be
Foolish
Nominee
Listen
Republican
Republican Party
Them
Ignore
Chosen
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.
John Muir
Faith
Best
Men
First
Half
Met
Mountains
Trees
Enough
Everybody
Sierra
Sayings
One Half
Weakened
Would
Admire
Emerson
Had
No-One
He
Noble
Reach
Until
Him
Calling
Read
Sure
Within
Felt
Came
His
Nor
Years
Yosemite
Essays
Them
Warm
Found
Ever
Interpret
Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.
John Poindexter
Government
People
Too
Would
Would-Be
About
Data
Both
Uncontrolled
Access
Audit
Oversight
Trail
Commercial
Going
Far
Use
Activity
It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'
John Ridley
Good
Focus
Conspiracy
Believe
Would
Would-Be
Point
Greatest
Does
Real
Exist
Tragedy
Any
Cannot
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
John Stuart Mill
Evil
Would
Would-Be
Never
Sure
Opinion
Stifle
Stifling
Still
Were
False
Even
For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.
John Travolta
Life
Saying
You
Learning
Experience
Fly
Gentleman
Down
Too
Caribbean
Way
Bad
Would
More
Could
Splash
Instead
Name
Sailed
Go
Off
Officer
Often
African
Which
While
Midnight
Turned
Working
Express
Necessarily
Jets
Tons
I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
John Travolta
Young
Living
Thinking
Monroe
Would
Like
How
Dean
Were
Survives
Died
Just
James
James Dean
Icon
Pop
Who
Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe
I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.
John Wooden
Service
School
Before
Down
Believe
Satisfied
Bend
Honestly
High
Would
Indiana
High School
Colleges
Never
Sure
South
Left
Just
Turned
Coaching
Teaching
Number
Enlisted
Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life. I wish I'd never gone. I suffered for years of PTSD and still suffer from what happened. I'm glad I wrote a book about it. But, you know, if I could go back and relive my life, I would never have climbed Everest.
Jon Krakauer
Life
You
Mistake
Book
Made
My Life
Wish
Gone
Back
Would
About
Relive
Could
Glad
Never
Know
Wrote
Still
Climbed
Climbing
Go
Years
Mount
Mount Everest
Happened
Biggest
Biggest Mistake
If I Could
Suffer
Suffered
Ever
Everest
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
Jonathan Sacks
Faith
Day
People
Fear
Free
Live
Jews
Gave
One Day
Would
Would-Be
Never
Because
Without
Were
Up
Itself
Survived
Regarded
Which
Centuries
Holocaust
Even
Defeats
If I could only have one grooming tool, it would be floss. I don't want to have broken Cheetos in my teeth. To protect myself from the sun, I can find shade under a tree. To moisturize my skin, I could get really sweaty and then just rub it on myself. But how are you going to clean between your teeth without floss?
Jonathan Van Ness
Myself
Broken
You
Skin
Tree
Tool
Teeth
Sun
Would
Would-Be
Find
Shade
Only
Clean
Could
Between
Protect
Without
How
Get
Going
Just
Want
Then
If I Could
Sweaty
Really
Grooming
Your
Rub
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.
Joni Mitchell
Hope
Good
Me
Fight
Parents
Become
Own
Warrior
Difficult
Every
Guess
Those
Battles
Would
Would-Be
Find
Some
Give
My Own
More
Had
Left
Up
Very
Canadian
Stoic
Disease
Stable
Childhood
Substitute
Far
Then
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