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My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found.
Chrystia Freeland /
Legal
Canada
Drawing
Former
Homeland
Russia
Soviet
Thirteen
Ukraine
Ukrainian
Executive
Officer
Republics
Served
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It is always the case that when something emerges - which, of course, from the perspective of the former West Germany looks very different - then people say, 'She hasn't told us this yet' and 'She hasn't told us that yet.' I don't know - maybe there are other things I didn't talk about because no one ever asked me.
Angela Merkel / Chancellor Of Germany
Former
Germany
Perspective
Always Me People
Emerges
Me People Always
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Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving.
Graydon Carter / Journalist
Devoted
Former
Global Warming
Gore
Hearing
Impassioned
Moving
Ran
Vice President
Voice
Voters
Years
Al
Al Gore
Civilian
Mission
Vice
Warming
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As a lawyer, as a former prosecutor, and as a son and grandson of foreign-service officers who tried to represent American democracy in foreign and dangerous places, the idea that this crowd of crooked fossil-fuel types is able to take over and run our democracy like we are a banana republic - I find that repellent.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Crooked
Democracy
Former
Grandson
Officers
Prosecutor
Son
Banana
Represent
Places
Tried
Types
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People talk about how many goals I score, how I play, how I move on the field. In Argentina, on the other hand, they're always digging for dirt, and they continue to talk about me as the husband of Wanda Nara, that guy who stole the woman and ruined the life of a former teammate, when it was never actually like that.
Mauro Icardi /
Argentina
Digging
Dirt
Former
Ruined
Score
Teammate
Life Always Me
Move On
Stole
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When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.
Bennet Omalu /
Behavior
Bizarre
Disorder
Former
Mike
Pittsburgh
Reports
Steep
Victim
Attack
Center
Suffered
File
Suspected
Webster
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The fact that many journalists approach the Clintons - especially Hillary Clinton - with a presumption that she has done something that if it's not outright corrupt is at least worthy of looking into, inevitably colors the way the public views the former secretary of state, and the way they respond to her in the polls.
Joy Reid /
Former
Polls
Presumption
Secretary
Views
Worthy
Corrupt
Respond
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Inevitably
Journalists
Outright
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I have acquired - some would say deservedly - quite a few rivals: former Israeli politicians, some of whom at their height were stars beloved by large parts of the public. But today, they aren't in politics, and when they sit alone in their room, they say to themselves that Barak is the one who showed them out the door.
Ehud Barak / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Beloved
Former
Height
Israeli
Rivals
Stars
Acquired
Door
Politicians
Large
Parts
They Say
Whom
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I think you can applaud President Trump's efforts on health care if that's where you lie. I think you can applaud his naming of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, but I think when he does something like make a veiled threat against the former FBI Director... I think people expect for leaders to step up and condemn that.
Ana Navarro /
Court
Fbi
Former
Health Care
Supreme
Supreme Court
Trump
Applaud
Director
Condemn
Efforts
Expect
Lie
Naming
Neil
Step
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First of all my golfing experience spans all corners of the World - Brazil, New Zealand, L.A. And I think the best place is when you play with friends. I particularly enjoy playing golf with my best friend, former Manchester United player Dwight Yorke. It is the best experience when we can get together on a golf course.
Brian Lara / Cricket Player
Best Friend
Brazil
Corners
Dwight
Former
Get Together
Golf
Golf Course
Manchester
Manchester United
New Zealand
First Of All
Particularly
Spans
Zealand
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Active questions are the alternative to passive questions. There is a huge difference between, 'Do you have clear goals?' and 'Did you do your best to set clear goals for yourself?' The former is trying to determine the employee's state of mind; the latter challenges the employee to describe or defend a course of action.
Marshall Goldsmith / Coach
Determine
Former
Latter
Passive
Alternative
Defend
Describe
Do Your Best
Huge Difference
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Whether it's a spouse, family member, coworker, former classmate, or the mother of your child's best friend - you know exactly what I mean. Just when you feel your worst and are judging yourself harshly, someone comes along who seems determined to make you feel even worse about yourself than you already do. Who needs it?
Gena Lee Nolin / Actress
Best Friend
Determined
Former
Judging
Spouse
Best Family Mother
Even Worse
Exactly What
Family Member
Harshly
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I remember the day I met Cammi Granato, a former star on the U.S. women's hockey team. We were at a Women's Sports Foundation dinner in 1996, and she came over to introduce herself. She had watched the U.S. women's soccer team win gold at the Atlanta Olympics and was hopeful the U.S. women's hockey team could do the same.
Julie Foudy / Soccer Player
Atlanta
Former
Gold
Hockey
Hopeful
Olympics
Soccer
Herself
Introduce
Team Win
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
Vicente Fox / Former President Of Mexico
Citizens
Contributing
Disappear
Former
Mexico
Hide
Practices
Presidents
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It is a job requirement of U.S. envoys to El Salvador to be skilled in the art of the threat. And Aponte, named ambassador in 2010, is a pro. In particular, she's been tasked with making sure the former insurgent FMLN, which first won the presidency in 2009 and was reelected in 2014, reconciles itself to neoliberal reality.
Greg Grandin /
El Salvador
Former
Insurgent
Presidency
Ambassador
Named
Requirement
Salvador
Skilled
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As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.
Emmitt Smith / Football Player
Ballroom
Dancing
Football Player
Former
Trust Me
Aches
Aggravate
Carried
Injuries
Pains
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As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.
Burgess Owens /
Courage
Dream
Anthem
Corporate
Courageous
Former
Millions
National Anthem
Nfl
Player
Sacrifice
Team
Stand
American
Free
Cannot
Still
Flag
Gave
Meaning
National
Shores
Whose
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I have a former Baltimore City police officer's uniform and his robe and hood. He was the grand dragon, which means state leader. His day job, what paid his bills, he was a Baltimore City police officer, not an undercover officer in the Klan gathering intelligence, but a bona fide Klansmen on the Baltimore City police force.
Daryl Davis / Musician
Baltimore
Bills
Force
Former
Gathering
Hood
Leader
Paid
Police
Police Force
Undercover
Job
Bona
Bona Fide
City
Day Job
Dragon
Grand
Officer
Robe
Uniform
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At the secret CIA training facility called 'The Farm,' aspiring case-officers learn how to recruit spies and steal secrets. As a former CIA officer, this is where I was taught that in order to successfully recruit an asset, I must first understand what would motivate an individual to cooperate with the CIA in the first place.
Will Hurd / U.s. Representative
Cia
Facility
Former
Recruit
Secret
Training
Aspiring
Asset
Cooperate
Farm
First Place
Motivate
Officer
Secrets
Spies
Steal
Successfully
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As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.
P. J. O'rourke / Satirist
Dog
Former
Frisbee
Flag
Longtime
Mall
Resident
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As the founding lead of the Google Brain team, former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and now overall lead of Baidu's AI team of some 1,200 people, I've been privileged to nurture many of the world's leading AI groups and have built many AI products that are used by hundreds of millions of people.
Andrew Ng / Professor
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Brain
Former
Founding
Groups
Laboratory
Millions
Nurture
Privileged
Products
Stanford
Ai
Hundreds
Millions Of People
Overall
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Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that?
Shari Arison / Businesswoman
Army
Dialogue
Essence
Former
Respectful
Spiritual
Teaching
Tolerance
Appointed
Colonel
Considerations
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After considering the ways that I might be able to help young college students, I decided to continue my support of the Light on the Hill scholarship. I would like to endorse this particular fund and encourage other former UNC students who have found success to reach back and assist the efforts of current and future Tar Heels.
Julius Peppers / American Football Player
College Students
Considering
Former
Fund
Heels
Scholarship
Assist
Current
Efforts
Endorse
Tar
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A person looking after a frail former lover is not working and not contributing to economic growth. But if he or she stopped, the state would probably have to take over, thereby adding to growth. So, to increase growth, we should stop looking after our loved ones. Could anybody explain to a passing Martian how this makes sense?
Guy Standing /
Contributing
Economic Growth
Former
Frail
Loved Ones
Passing
Adding
Lover
Explain
He Or She
Martian
Thereby
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Human insulin differs from other mammalian types by having a different C-terminal amino acid on the B chain. The immunological difference between beef insulin and human insulin, which is presumably responsible for the antigenicity of the former in some human beings, is thus limited to very a small portion of the whole molecule.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet / Virologist
Acid
Beef
Former
Insulin
Amino
Amino Acid
Chain
Differs
Limited
Molecule
Portion
Presumably
Thus
Types
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As a former member of JWA's management team, and more recently as a director, I am delighted to have the opportunity now to take the reins of leadership of the company. I look forward to working with JWA's management team to chart the course and execute the plan to further strengthen and broaden JWA's leading product franchises.
Helen Johnson-Leipold /
Delighted
Former
Management
Reins
Broaden
Chart
Execute
Further
Management Team
Member
Strengthen
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I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America, and I am very proud to come from there. I am also proud that my inner circle of friends has never been defined by race but by the content of their character. Any former teammate or anyone who has met me can attest to this, and I pride myself on not being a judgmental person.
Steve Clevenger / Baseball Player
Defined
Diverse
Former
Judgmental
Pride
Teammate
Myself Character Me
Myself Character I Am
Area
Attest
Content
Circle
Inner
Met
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Former CIA employee Joseph Weisberg's 'An Ordinary Spy' may attract attention for how much it redacts - whether by authorial choice or by CIA design - but its power comes from the growing frustration Weisberg's fictional alter ego feels at a system designed to betray seeming innocents in the most casual and cruel manner possible.
Sarah Weinman /
Betray
Casual
Cia
Employee
Former
Frustration
Ordinary
Seeming
Spy
Alter
Attract
Cruel
Designed
Fictional
Innocents
Joseph
Manner
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No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't, those we are attracted to, and those who shop for functional outdoors wear. The sooner a couple can accept the existence of the former and exchange a few basic reassurances concerning them, the easier life gets.
Lynn Coady / Novelist
Chemistry
Committed
Existence
Former
Life Marriage People
Functional
Life Marriage Always
Attracted
Sooner
Concerning
Exchange
Shop
Outdoors
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As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.
Bill O'reilly / Host
Teacher
Attention
Class
Creativity
Disadvantaged
Environment
Expensive
Former
Grammar
Grammar School
High School
Motivation
Stable
Student
Extra
High School Teacher
Imaginations
School Teacher
Stimulate
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Since 1975, violence has been recognized as a public health problem, in large part to former Surgeon Generals Dr. Koop and Dr. Satcher's pioneering efforts to make the health approach a national priority. Since then, we've seen that violence can be curbed - and stopped - if we treat it as we would any other epidemic health concern.
Mike Quigley / U.s. Representative
Approach
Concern
Former
Pioneering
Public Health
Violence
Dr
Efforts
Epidemic
Generals
Health Problem
Large
Large Part
National
Recognized
Surgeon
Treat
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If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Alluring
Answers
Difficult
Fanaticism
Former
Fundamentalism
Members
Promise
Starving
Young
Admitted
Fact
Group
Mentors
Minds
Search
Twist
Young People
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'And Then There Were None' is a network of former abortion clinic workers who are stepping forward to tell our stories about what really happens behind the closed doors of Planned Parenthood and abortion facilities across America. We are stepping forward because our voices deserve to be heard, and America deserves to know the truth.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Clinic
Closed Doors
Doors
Former
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Closed
Facilities
Planned
Stepping
Voices
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More than half of my former students teach - elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be passionate about literature and writing, and to attempt to translate that passion to their own students. They are rookie teachers, most likely to be laid off and not rehired, even though they are passionate.
Susan Straight / Writer
Community College
Former
Passionate
Translate
Teachers
Attempt
Elementary
Laid
Rookie
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To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these techniques was paid for in American blood because it was gleaned from former POWs tortured by totalitarian regimes. One technique, waterboarding, was a historically well-known torture.
Malcolm Nance /
Captivity
Duress
Former
Regimes
Steel
Technique
Torture
Variety
Historically
Pows
Techniques
Totalitarian
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When we talk about the issue of child soldiers, it can be easy to focus just on ending recruitment and liberating those boys and girls who are currently being held in military camps. Obviously, both of these are incredibly important goals, but it's also essential that we not forget about former child soldiers once they are liberated.
Forest Whitaker / Actor
Camps
Former
Liberated
Recruitment
Currently
Boys And Girls
Ending
Held
Soldiers
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Any U.S. attorney's office would fall over itself to investigate, for example, a state governor who, while running for reelection against a former mayor, so much as hinted to the mayor's successor that, say, highway funds would be restricted unless the current mayor were to announce an inquiry into her predecessor's alleged corruption.
George T. Conway Iii /
Attorney
Corruption
Former
Inquiry
Alleged
Announce
Current
Funds
Governor
Highway
Investigate
Mayor
Predecessor
Restricted
Successor
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Schools like Doon or Lawrence in Sanawar didn't decide to create leaders when they started. Look at their alumni list today, and you have a former prime minister, Olympic gold medallist, army generals, cabinet ministers, and leaders in different spheres. Some kind of training started at the school level itself that helped create leaders.
Roshni Nadar /
Alumni
Army
Former
Gold
Prime
Prime Minister
Spheres
Training
Cabinet
Generals
Helped
Lawrence
List
Minister
Olympic
Olympic Gold
Schools
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Journalists in newspapers and in many magazines are not permitted to be subjective and tell their readers what they think. Journalists have got to follow a very strict formulaic line, and here we come, these non-fiction writers, these former journalists who are using all the techniques that journalists are pretty much not allowed to use.
Lee Gutkind / Writer
Former
Magazines
Newspapers
Non Fiction
Strict
Subjective
Allowed
Writers
Follow
Journalists
Permitted
Readers
Techniques
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As a former Commander, I gave an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. As a state senator, I gave that same oath. As a Congressman, I gave an oath to defend the Constitution. There are some things that are not negotiable: Faith, my family, and the Constitution are dead center. It is nonnegotiable to me.
Ryan Zinke / American Politician
Congressman
Former
Oath
Faith Family Me
Center
Commander
Senator
Defend
Domestic
Enemies
Family Faith Me
Some Things
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What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
Arthur Laffer / Economist
Christmas
Smile
Government
Bail
Fairy
Father
Former
Free Lunch
Government Spending
Lunch
Spending
Staff
Tooth Fairy
Treasury
Years
Colleague
Mine
Putting
Tooth
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To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.
Malcolm Turnbull / Member Of The Australian Parliament
Inspiring
Children
Far Away
Former
Innocence
Mothers Day
Sorry
Apologise
Maternal
Led
Mothers
New Beginning
To Love
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I remember when we ignored Europe and we were totally committed to the Commonwealth and the former Empire, and thought imperial preference was the only thing which enabled us to survive, that was a mistake, and it's a similar mistake to feel Britain can't be a hugely successfully country - economically and in any other way - outside the E.U.
Nigel Lawson / Politician
Britain
Committed
Former
Ignored
Preference
Remember When
Any Other Way
Economically
Empire
Hugely
Imperial
Similar
Successfully
Survive
To Survive
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There are so many intelligent former black players, guys like Luther Blissett and Cyrille Regis, who never got a chance to become a top manager or a top coach because of the perception that surrounds people who look like them. They are black - which, for many, means they are good athletes but incapable of being anything above and beyond that.
John Barnes / Author
Chance
Black
Former
Incapable
Intelligent
Luther
Perception
Good Look People
Above
Good Chance Look
Athletes
Beyond
Coach
Guys
Manager
Surrounds
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Trump and Barr both insist that he has been cleared, but that's not what more than 1,000 former federal prosecutors who read the Mueller report say: The evidence described in the report would lead to an indictment of anyone else in the country. If that's right, we simply cannot have a president who remains in office because of a technicality.
Neal Katyal /
Evidence
Former
Indictment
Office
President
Remains
Trump
Anyone Else
Report
Cleared
Country More Right
Simply
Federal
Lead
Insist
Prosecutors
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Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 200 senior officers of the former Soviet army in Moscow in 1991, among them KGB generals. There, my knowledge of Penkovsky's role was thoroughly confirmed, and so was the Soviet military men's residual sense of humiliation at Khrushchev's 'blink'.
Alistair Horne /
Army
Blink
Crisis
Cuban
Cuban Missile Crisis
Former
Humiliation
Military
Moscow
Officers
Residual
Senior
Soviet
Among
Confirmed
Generals
Missile
Thoroughly
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Without medical records that he hasn't released, we can't know whether Gingrich may have inherited his mother's manic depression. Nevertheless, one observes in the former House Speaker certain symptoms - bouts of grandiosity, megalomania, irritability, racing thoughts, spending sprees - that go beyond the ordinary politician's normal narcissism.
Jacob Weisberg / Journalist
Depression
Medical
Former
Manic
Medical Records
Narcissism
Nevertheless
Ordinary
Racing
Symptoms
Gingrich
Inherited
Speaker
Released
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