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It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.
Evo Morales
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President Of Bolivia
Bolivia
Destruction
Hunger
Misery
Mother Earth
Shoes
Food Water People
Policies
Suffer
Worldwide
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Mr. Modi is responsible for everyone's misery, demonetisation disaster, destruction of all democratic institutions. He is creating problems for everybody: for political leaders, for media, for corporates. He is not following any democratic values.
N. Chandrababu Naidu
/
Destruction
Disaster
Misery
Political Leaders
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Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.
David Novak
/
Acquisition
Citizenship
Destruction
Founding
Holocaust
Modernity
Secular
Jews
Largely
Shaped
One-Third
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True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.
Piet Mondrian
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Painter
Appearance
Construction
Destruction
Intention
Melody
Natural
Painting
Pure
Rhythm
True
Conceive
Dynamic
Equivalent
Mine
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Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
Zach Wamp
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Former U.s. Representative
War
Breeding
Democratic
Destruction
Hate
Tyranny
World
Directed
Frankly
Instilling
Systems
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In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.
Christine Pelosi
/
Author
Candidates
Common Ground
Destruction
Voters
Ambassador
Separates
Volunteers
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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
Patrick Macgill
/
Journalist
Certain
Danger
Destruction
Goal
Impervious
Looks
Monsters
Night
Resolute
Silent
Steady
Battalion
Full
Doubly
Engine
Mission
Marching
Menacing
Monster
Onward
Restrained
Sweep
Thus
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We are at war to liberate Iraq, to protect the people of the United States and other countries from the devastating impact of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists or the Iraqi government to kill thousands of innocent civilians.
Paul Cellucci
/
Former Governor Of Massachusetts
War
Civilians
Country
Destruction
Impact
Innocent
Mass
Mass Destruction
Other Countries
Protect
Weapons
War Government People
Being Used
Devastating
Innocent Civilians
Iraqi
Liberate
Terrorists
Thousands
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In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.
David Icke
/
Writer
Knowledge
Catastrophe
Destruction
Energy
Information
Particular
Safety
Being Used
Complete
Period
Total
Energies
Planet
Prevent
Reasons
Shall
Withdrawn
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Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.
James Buchan
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Novelist
Aspect
Baghdad
British
Decline
Destruction
Egypt
Invasion
Muslim World
Relative
West
World
Creeping
Malign
Muslim
Slow
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The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar system, and still more outside it, that could make Earth uninhabitable by humans.
Paul Johnson
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Journalist
Destruction
Global Warming
Humans
Indestructible
Planet Earth
Solar System
Threatened
Unpredictable
Man-Made
Global
Planet
Solar
Warming
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Trump has benefitted indirectly from a strong belief of evangelicals that the two terms of Barack Obama has led the country to the brink of destruction. Obama was bad enough in their eyes; having the Clintons back in the White House would be the end.
Anthea Butler
/
Barack
Destruction
White House
Barack Obama
Brink
Evangelicals
Indirectly
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We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.
Alice Waters
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Chef
Quality
Agriculture
Care
Contributing
Destruction
Done
Focus
Wonderful
Eat
Changes
Every Day
Recognize
Value
Wonderful Thing
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I've had the opportunity to see both sides of the human spirit. I've seen those who will put you down, demean you, brand you, and have a one-track mind of destruction. But I've also seen people who uplift you. I've been on a journey unlike any others.
Brian Banks
/
Journey
Opportunity
Both Sides
Destruction
Human Spirit
Sides
Spirit
Seen
Brand
Unlike
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We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.
Michael Mccaul
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U.s. Representative
Advantage
Avert
Destruction
Diplomacy
Iran
Mutual
Path
Pursue
Resistance
Option
Internal
Shrink
Take Advantage
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If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
Robert Walpole
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Former Great Britain. Prime Minister.
Army
Awakening
Commerce
Delusion
Destruction
Liberty
Posts
Sole
Awaken
Established
Diminution
Disposal
Employ
Honours
Persuaded
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Saddam Hussein played a terrible game of trying to deceive the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone bought it. The United States called him on his braggadocio, and we are all paying for the results - especially the American taxpayer.
John Shimkus
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U.s. Representative
Destruction
Hussein
Mass
Mass Destruction
Results
Saddam
States
Terrible
United States
Weapons
American Taxpayer
Played
Bought
Deceive
Paying
Saddam Hussein
Taxpayer
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Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?
John Amery
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Dream
War
British
Destruction
Father
Heritage
Leader
Priceless
Thrown
Alliance
Builders
Empire
Fathers
Interests
Serve
Stalin
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Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
T. E. Hulme
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Poet
Chance
Society
Destruction
Individual
Infinite
Order
Progress
Romanticism
Here
Oppressive
Possibilities
Rearrange
Reservoir
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I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.
George Voinovich
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Former United States Senator
Bully
Children
Destruction
Everyday
Grandchildren
Mass
Mass Destruction
Weapons
Would Be
Allowed
Bullies
Regional
Send
Threaten
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We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Paul Cellucci
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Former Governor Of Massachusetts
Casualties
Destruction
Hesitation
Iraq
Mass
Mass Destruction
Organization
Terrorist
Al
Catastrophic
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Weapon
Thousands
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'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don't know if that was the best thing for Guns.
Axl Rose
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Singer-Songwriter
Appetite
Destruction
Fitting
Melody
Guns
Best Time Guitar
The Only Thing
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The situation Abraham Lincoln faced was unique. In his view, the United States was threatened with destruction, ruin, overthrow, perishing - all words that he used - which is not the case for any other president, including the current one - Barack Obama.
William Lee Miller
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Destruction
President
Unique
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To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot
/
Philosopher
Love
Aim
Destruction
Folly
Height
Noble
Order
Passion
Love Feel Nothing
Attempt
Complete
Madman
Monster
Passions
Succeeded
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
Hans Blix
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Swedish Politician
Action
Denied
Destruction
Imagine
Regard
Said
Armed
Played
Certainly
Illusions
Immediately
Iraqis
Undertake
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Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and it would be wrong to let this deadly form of neglect continue to facilitate bloodshed across America.
Bernice King
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Minister
Bloodshed
Destruction
Distribution
Facilitate
Mass
Mass Destruction
Neglect
Tolerance
Weapons
Deadly
Governments
State Governments
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Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit of both.
Geoffrey West
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Physicist
Destruction
Slums
Unhealthy
Grown
Organ
Tumor
Ultimately
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The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With the private property they have not succeeded, but they continue on the path of destruction of the family and the nation.
Vladimir Bukovsky
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Writer
Destruction
Maximum
Path
Private Property
Eliminate
Private
Programme
Socialists
Succeeded
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Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
Abdullah Ii Of Jordan
/
Courage
Annihilation
Coexistence
Destruction
Occupation
Our Dreams
Prime Minister
Sharon
Begin
Seek
Minister
Urge
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The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
Brit Hume
/
Journalist
Destruction
Disguise
Fun
Mass
Mass Destruction
Over It
President
Weapons
Good Look People
Certainly
Goes
Good Look Fun
Himself
Record
Performance
Poking
Saying
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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
Yvon Chouinard
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Rock Climber
Accepted
Believe
Blame
Destruction
Failing
Growth
Resources
Thinking
Displaced
Model
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The crusade to convince us that global warming can only be dealt with by wealth destruction and higher energy prices began with an effort to 'raise awareness,' which turned into some delicate nanny-state prodding before efforts to artificially inflate prices.
David Harsanyi
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Journalist
Convince
Delicate
Destruction
Effort
Global Warming
Higher
Wealth
Artificially
Began
Crusade
Dealt
Efforts
Energy Prices
Global
Inflate
Prices
Raise
Warming
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The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.
Roberto Unger
/
Philosopher
Opportunity
Destruction
Disorganized
Economic
Rain
Real
Activities
Set
Economic Opportunities
Forest
Further
Million
Million People
Opportunities
Practical
Result
Trees
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Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.
John Blair
/
Alone
Black
Block
Destruction
Engaged
Large Numbers
Left
Lines
Members
Numbers
Talking
Across
Acts
Seen
Commented
Cops
Dressed
Fact
Freely
Indeed
Large
Making
Senseless
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Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man's atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them.
William Shawcross
/
Writer
Acquire
Atomic Bomb
Biological Weapons
Decades
Destruction
Determined
Diabolical
Earth
Hussein
Illegal
Mass
Mass Destruction
Poor
Saddam
Threat
Weapons
Greatest
Atomic
Biological
Bomb
Often
Greatest Threat
Making
Ruler
Saddam Hussein
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People don't talk about the amount of destruction in terms of human lives that happen, whether it's through slavery, or through, for example, what Belgium was doing in the Congo - the fragmentation of society that happened after that destruction of human life.
Uzodinma Iweala
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Belgium
Congo
Destruction
Fragmentation
Human Life
Life Society People
For Example
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Man in harmony with his Creator is sublime, and his action is creative; equally, once he separates himself from God and acts alone, he does not cease to be powerful, since this is the privilege of his nature, but his acts are negative and lead only to destruction.
Joseph De Maistre
/
Philosopher
Alone
Action
Cease
Creative
Destruction
Harmony
Negative
Powerful
Privilege
Sublime
Nature God Man
Since
Acts
Equally
Lead
Himself
Separates
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
Ori Gersht
/
Beauty
Attractive
Cathartic
Destruction
Grotesque
Moments
Painful
Violence
Almost
Side
Created
Times
Erased
Intensely
Simultaneously
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
Federico Fellini
/
Film Director
Destruction
Fragmentation
Grass
Pessimism
Cover
Produces
Shower
Surrounded
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Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the massive amounts of methane produced by farm animals and the huge amounts of water, grain and other resources required to feed animals.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
/
Journalist
Causes
Climate
Climate Change
Destruction
Grain
Massive
Meat
Resources
Change Water Climate
Feed
Farm
Huge Amounts
Lands
Produced
Required
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We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.
Paul Cellucci
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Former Governor Of Massachusetts
Believe
Combination
Country
Destruction
Mass
Mass Destruction
Organization
Other Countries
Terrorist
Ties
Weapons
Believe World People
World Believe People
Grave
Possesses
Rogue
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Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.
Arthur Smith
/
Comedian
Corporations
Destruction
Global Warming
Important
Ongoing
Outrage
Scary
Third World
World Me Important
Animating
Bush
George
George Bush
Railways
Takeover
Third
Warming
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Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
Prince Charles
/
Acknowledge
Century
Destruction
Impact
Long Term
Testing
Uncomfortable
Vested Interests
Best Enough World
Best Part
Closely
Utter
Enthusiastically
Interests
Perhaps
Spent
Vested
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Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.
Hideki Tojo
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Military Officer
Peace
War
Belief
China
Destruction
Honest
Japan
Nations
Policy
War Peace World
All Nations
Based
Designed
Period
Efforts
Followed
Places
Restore
Spreading
Throughout
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Very often, if you just get the question: "Well, are you a Zionist?" if you say no, it's assumed that you want the destruction of the state of Israel and that you're involved in some actual or potential violent attack. But actually, you could say: "Not on this basis".
Judith Butler
/
Philosopher
Destruction
Israel
Want
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Men do really dumb things. We see weapons of mass destruction where there are none. We over-emphasize sports. We place athletic achievement ahead of academic achievement. We spoil and pamper child athletes and then complain when they act spoiled and pampered as adults.
Jason Whitlock
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Sportswriter
Academic
Achievement
Destruction
Dumb
Mass Destruction
Pampered
Spoil
Weapons
Athletes
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Saint Augustine
/
Saint
Blow
Company
Destruction
Difficulty
Done
Driven
Nails
Draw
Drawn
Hold
Head
Nail
Post
Second
Wood
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Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
John Rawls
/
Philosopher
Animal
Capable
Compassion
Destruction
Evil
Form
Humanity
Pain
Pleasure
Species
Life Great Pain
Animals
Case
Certainly
Clearly
Cruel
Duties
Great Evil
Impose
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We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.
Shigeru Yoshida
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Former Prime Minister Of Japan
War
Delegates
Destruction
Feelings
Human Experience
Human Suffering
Japan
Pacific
Sorrow
Catastrophic
Listened
Material
Recall
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I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there.
Drew Goddard
/
Television Screenwriter
Atomic Bomb
Built
Destruction
Grew
Hometown
Mass
Mass Destruction
Mexico
New Mexico
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Reason
Weapons
People New Know
Atomic
Bomb
Exists
Still
Happening
Lab
Los
Town
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