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zinc politician canyons
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No. Douglas Brinkley
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Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains. Anthony Albanese
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Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important. Hari Kondabolu
politics unspoken ways
Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving. Rory Stewart
country poor poor-countries
Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources, Iqbal Quadir
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defect needs provided
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. Saint Teresa of Avila
temples body spirit
Our body is the temple of our spirit. George W. Romney
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic. Zoe Saldana
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Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides. Clementa C. Pinckney
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Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having? George Ryan
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Our clothes are expensive. I guess you could say we are aiming at the Yuppie market. But we feel America is moving away from quantity to the desire for quality. That is what we offer. Willy Bogner, Jr.
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Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. Hugo Black
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Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy. Martin Van Buren
dream ivory world
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
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Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional. Darell Hammond
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Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens. Charles Koch
happiness envy lasts
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. Heraclitus
perspective function circumstances
Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself. Lindsay Wagner
memorable long dies
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. Ruth Benedict
team people together
Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Bill Simmons
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Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated. Louis Stokes
merely remark subject
Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work. Charles Hodge
civil enforce government
Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored. Major Owens
sleep heart speak
Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake. John Bunyan
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Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia Edward James Olmos
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Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen. Charles Platt
military assessment baghdad
Our initial assessment is that they will all die. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian. Laura Innes
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Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users. Victor Koo
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Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward. Bill Shuster
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government principles consent-of-the-governed
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Adrian Cronauer
growing rehabilitation needs
Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing. Bill Lipinski
college focus magic
Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else. Alex Tabarrok
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Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file. Mike Davidson
party great-day succeed
Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed. Francis Maude
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reality ideas always-trying
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to. Andrew Cohen
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Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent. Francis Maude
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. Omar N. Bradley
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Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system. Norm Coleman
our-society violence might
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence. Stanley Crouch
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society
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. Barbara Amiel
pain different stories
Our stories are different; our pain is the same. Betty Buckley
customers people
Our target customers are people in their 20s. Old people wanted to be 21 again, and young people wanted to be 21 forever. Do Won Chang
optimistic done research
Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person. Alana Stewart
lying challenges facts
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life. Charlotte Bunch
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men giving mind
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. Thurgood Marshall
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all. Gale Sayers
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Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together. Ike Barinholtz
life
Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing. Rick Springfield
fun men bunch
Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men. Eric Mabius
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