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There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
Belle Boyd
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Actress
Men
Interfere
Plot
Speak
Thinking
Willing
Politics Men Women
Act
Admit
Affairs
Politics Women Men
Maintain
Plots
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Politicians have done some grim things in pursuit of the office. President Franklin Roosevelt was a philanderer; nevertheless, he pushed aides to use his opponent Wendell Wilkie's affairs to hurt him. He even tutored aides on how to spread rumors without getting caught.
John Dickerson
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Caught
Done
Franklin
Grim
Hurt
Nevertheless
Office
President
Pursuit
Spread
Things
Affairs
Aide
He
Without
How
Politicians
Getting
Even
Franklin Roosevelt
Him
His
Opponent
Some
Roosevelt
Rumors
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The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another.
George Vecsey
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Author
Defense
Offense
Playoffs
Addition
Affairs
Feature
Interior
Uses
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My father was a television director and producer, working on documentaries and current affairs programmes including 'Panorama,' and I didn't think he'd find acting a sensible option. But as soon as I'd finished my A-levels, I got on a train to Edinburgh, and that was it.
Sarah Alexander
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Documentaries
Edinburgh
Panorama
Programmes
Sensible
Affairs
Current
Option
Producer
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After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states.
Pedro Pierluisi
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United States Representative
Authority
Exercise
Federal Government
Granted
Puerto Rico
Residents
Rico
Affairs
Allowed
Centuries
Federal
Local
Manner
Puerto
Rule
Similar
Spanish
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
Ian Hacking
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Philosopher
American Revolution
Consensus
Despite
Historian
Objects
Revolution
Revolutions
Affairs
Proper
Rightly
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The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.
Nassau William Senior
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Economist
Advisable
Economist
Guides
Neglect
Political
Principal
Principles
Sole
Use
Actual
Affairs
Conduct
Fatal
Recommend
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It was the view of the people in the Department of State that the handling of Yemen affairs from Aden was too much of a burden on the then Consul, so an additional officer was named to the American Consulate at Aden to handle Yemeni affairs. I was designated for that task.
Hermann Eilts
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Burden
Department
Handle
Yemen
Additional
Affairs
Named
Handling
Officer
Task
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To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.
Tom Hodgkinson
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Writer
Computer
Depressing
Exposure
Games
Laughter
Produce
Sight
Solitary
Me Doing More
Affairs
Besides
Brains
Dreadful
Five-Year-Old
Hand
Mouse
Prolonged
Screen
Tend
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Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.
Lloyd Cutler
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Former White House Counsel
Administration
Firm
Secretary
Affairs
Assistant
Law Firm
Merger
Putting
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I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.
Theodore C. Sorensen
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Former White House Counsel
Advice
Brain
Doubt
Foreign Affairs
Informing
Marvelous
Premature
Reaching
Affairs
Fully
Shape
Slightest
Slightest Doubt
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It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.
William Godwin
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Journalist
Accommodate
Circumstances
Concerned
Instruments
Pure
Affairs
However
Human Affairs
Misfortune
Reach
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
Manny Farber
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Painter
Beaten
Entertaining
Eternity
Golf
Golf Course
Mistaken
Principles
Love Death Man
Affairs
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Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.
Steve Kanaly
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Actor
Bones
Drunk
Financial
Occasions
Trouble
Affairs
Mistakes
Ray
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There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.
W. H. Davies
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Poet
Beggar
Scotch
Talkative
Affairs
Among
Clan
Conceal
Talker
Inclined
Large
Met
Private
Simple Reason
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The idea of the Songun revolution is an idea of giving importance and precedence to military affairs in implementing the masses' cause of independence, the socialist cause, and pushing ahead with the overall revolution and construction with the revolutionary army as the core force.
Kim Jong-Un
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Supreme Leader Of North Korea
Independence
Army
Construction
Core
Force
Giving
Implementing
Military
Precedence
Pushing
Revolution
Revolutionary
Socialist
Affairs
Ahead
Idea
Cause
Masses
Overall
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As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.
Robert Jarvik
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Scientist
Technology
Application
Artificial
Doctor Who
Doctors
Heart
Invention
Licensing
Manufacturing
Affairs
Doctor
Chose
Clinical
Hearts
Regulatory
Required
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Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.
Helen Hunt
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Actress
Daughter
Travel
Acting
Being Yourself
Great Job
Mother
Twenties
Life Great Yourself
Affairs
Be Yourself
Gets
Older
Throw
Wanting
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The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate as to subject the action, and sometimes even the internal affairs, of each to surveillance and intervention on the part of all the others.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar Ii
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Commonwealth
Europe
Internal Affairs
Intimate
League
Nations
Surveillance
Affairs
Central
Constitute
Elaborate
Internal
Subject
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Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Author
Dust
Grain
Indifference
Mankind
Pure
Training
Absorb
Affairs
Encourages
Indeed
More Or Less
Opposed
Rigid
Scientific
Terrestrial
Yawn
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No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.
Cesare Beccaria
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Philosopher
Centre
Every Man
Liberty
Public Good
Sake
Good Man World
Affairs
Appears
Prefer
Bind
Freely
Portion
Sees
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We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
Bhagat Singh
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Adapted
Destruction
Reconstruction
Revolution
Strife
Systematic
Upheaval
Affairs
Existing
Implies
Merely
Programme
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
Ada Yonath
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Academy
Foreign Affairs
Hotel
Ministry
Secretary
Stockholm
Swedish
Waiting
Affairs
Arrive
Assistant
Laureate
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The work being done by Linklaters to help organizations understand keys to success in the development sector serves as an important international affairs issue and crucial element in how all of us work to support service provision in impoverished communities in a lasting and effective way.
Ann Cotton
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Being Done
Crucial
International Affairs
Lasting
Provision
Affairs
Communities
Effective
Effective Way
Element
Organizations
Impoverished
Sector
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Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs.
Douglas Brinkley
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Author
Depression
Announcers
Clergy
Entering
Golden
Golden Age
Programming
Singers
World Affairs
Affairs
Age World Day
Broadcast
Personalities
Prayers
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Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
Salman Rushdie
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Novelist
England
Europe
Modern World
Sophisticated
World
Affairs
American Writers
Current
Forecast
Whereas
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There seems to be a vulnerability at the networks in late night. They are losing more and more audience, particularly young viewers who are now looking at cable television. 'Tonight' is an old show. CBS has reruns, and having a public affairs series like 'Nightline' on ABC is a big mistake.
Fred Silverman
/
Big Mistake
Public Affairs
Reruns
Tonight
Viewers
Vulnerability
Abc
Affairs
Cable
Cbs
Networks
More And More
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Local tax increases can cause high-net-worth individuals to move, tax experts said; tax avoidance and tax arbitrage are multitrillion-dollar affairs, and rich people are sensitive to tax rates. But many of the people who move when their home state raises taxes are close to retirement anyway.
Annie Lowrey
/
Avoidance
Experts
Home State
Raises
Retirement
Rich People
Sensitive
Tax Increases
Affairs
Increases
Rates
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There is often little to distinguish what Beijing wants from what Canada's foreign affairs mandarins want out of the Canada-China relationship, which is in any case rarely even close to what Canadians want - like some demonstrable public benefit for once, the opinion polls consistently show.
Terry Glavin
/
Beijing
Canada
Consistently
Foreign Affairs
Opinion
Opinion Polls
Polls
Affairs
Benefit
Canadians
Case
Distinguish
Rarely
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We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
Marianne Williamson
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Author
Running
Children
Civilization
Human Civilization
Making Money
Affairs
Organizing
Pathological
Principle
Shift
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As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.
Neil Macgregor
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Museum Director
Contempt
East
Habit
Middle East
Misunderstanding
Propaganda
Ran
Affairs
Centuries
Indeed
Virtually
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As chief business affairs and legal officer, I am responsible for driving Airbnb's engagement strategy and civic partnership efforts as well as overseeing the company's global public policy, community mobilization, legal, communications, compliance, social initiatives, and philanthropy efforts.
Belinda Johnson
/
Legal
Airbnb
Compliance
Engagement
Mobilization
Overseeing
Partnership
Philanthropy
Public Policy
Strategy
Affairs
Chief
Civic
Communications
Efforts
Initiatives
Officer
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Governments everywhere have ministries dedicated to women's affairs. I know of only one with a Ministry for Women Empowerment: Indonesia. Charged with the 'realization of gender equality and justice' together with children's well-being, the ministry frames gender equality as a matter of justice.
Arancha Gonzalez
/
Dedicated
Empowerment
Gender
Indonesia
Ministry
Realization
Well Being
Affairs
Charged
Frames
Governments
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We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.
Kathleen Troia Mcfarland
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Arms
Default
Factions
Middle
Normal
Position
Temporary
West
Win Or Lose
Affairs
Beginning
Fails
Lay
Resume
Warring
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I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
Randy Bachman
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Musician
Chosen
Exclusive
Expertise
Personal Life
Touring
World Affairs
Life Politics Music
Affairs
Life Politics Religion
Production
Remain
Table
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For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.
Mitt Romney
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Former Governor Of Massachusetts
Home
Green
Green Card
Might
Order
Transition
Everybody
Affairs
Allow
Apply
Card
Citizen
Set
Everybody Else
Line
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On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
Country
Independent
Leader
March
Pact
Promise
Responsible
Soviet
Warsaw
Your Day Will
Affairs
Became
Countries
Intervene
Meeting
Ours
Policies
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American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.
Charles A. Beard
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Historian
Equality
Abstract
American Government
Breach
Colonists
Continuity
Liberty
Revolution
Actual
Actual Experience
Affairs
Gained
Generation
Institutional
Originate
Theories
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Prime ministers come and go, but so long as he or she lives, the sovereign remains, receiving and reading all state papers and meeting once a week with the prime minister to advise, enquire, and comment - sometimes sharply, as was the case with Queen Elizabeth II and Mrs. Thatcher - on affairs of state.
Michael Korda
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Writer
Advise
Comment
Papers
Prime Minister
Receiving
Remains
Sovereign
Affairs
Case
Come And Go
Elizabeth
He Or She
Queen
Meeting
Minister
Mrs
Once A Week
Prime Ministers
Sharply
Thatcher
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Often, my liberal Canadian brethren will claim that 'Canada doesn't get involved in foreign affairs or wars overseas. We turn the other cheek.' No. Canada doesn't have the military might to exercise any option other than to remain uninvolved. They aren't turning the other cheek. They're pulling a Sweden.
Steven Crowder
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Brethren
Canada
Exercise
Foreign Affairs
Involved
Military
Sweden
Affairs
Turning
Cheek
Claim
Wars
Option
Liberal
Overseas
Remain
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
Hanna Rosin
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Author
Colleagues
Different
Far Away
Judged
Males
Routine
Stakes
Affairs
Male
Distant
Domestic
Endures
Heady
Strains
Surely
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Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.
George Will
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Columnist
Love
Adulation
Fine
Juliet
Media
Reality
Love Time Work
Affairs
Love Work Time
Impinge
Programs
Journalists
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
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I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next, a public intellectual voice within the American left; and only then an occasional, opportunistic participant in the pained American discussion of the Jewish matter.
Tony Judt
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Historian
Discussion
Occasional
Jewish
Affairs
Commentator
Participant
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
Noam Chomsky
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Linguist
Money
Disobedience
Important
International
International Affairs
Mafia
Obedience
Pay
Protection
Spread
Very
Accept
Affairs
Much
Does
Idea
Run
Listen
Even
Godfather
Small
His
Orders
Otherwise
Places
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I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.
Jimmy Carter
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39Th U.s. President
Activism
Carter
Conservation
Degrees
Energy
Environment
Former
International
International Affairs
President
Affairs
Center
Degree
Domestic
Presidents
Superior
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In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
Abraham Lincoln
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16Th U.s. President
Aspect
Blood
Force
Shed
Advance
Affairs
Favor
Present
View
Unless
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In the first test screening of 'RoboCop,' it tested very high. Then they asked the people why they liked it, and the first answer was, 'I liked it because it was political.' And the second answer was because, 'It feels like it deals with current affairs.' And the third answer was, 'Because it feels emotional.'
Joel Kinnaman
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Actor
Deals
Screening
Affairs
Current
Test
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The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking offence; and if we had so acted, and exercised proper skill in the management of our affairs, Mexico and ourselves would, by this time, have quietly and peaceably settled all difficulties and been good friends.
John C. Calhoun
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Former United States Representative
Management
Mexico
Offence
Permit
Strong
Weak
Time Good Always
Acted
Affairs
Difficulties
Good Friends
Proper
Quietly
Scold
Settled
Skill
Taking
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The House of Commons has the undoubted rights to expel members for misconduct. This is an absolute authority which cannot be challenged in any court, as it derives from the twin concept of the High Court of Parliament being the most senior court in the land and of each House's right to regulate its own affairs.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
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Authority
House Of Commons
Misconduct
Parliament
Senior
Absolute
Affairs
Challenged
Commons
Twin
Derives
Expel
Regulate
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Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic State - to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many non-Muslims - Hindus, Christians, and Parsis - but they are all Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other citizens and will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Lawyer
Citizens
Divine
Pakistan
Priests
Affairs
Christians
Hindus
Mission
Privileges
Rightful
Ruled
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