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It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors.
Bill Scott
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Abuse
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Essential
Limit
Required
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Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.
Rahm Emanuel
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Mayor Of Chicago
Courage
Deny
Parent
Condition
Limit
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I don't know what Swiss musicians need to do to be heard beyond the borders of their own country. It was always clear to me that I belong everywhere, that music belongs everywhere. It simply never occurred to me that I had to limit myself to a country.
Sophie Hunger
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Borders
Swiss
Music Myself Me
Music Myself Always
Belong
Limit
Occurred
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A translation needs to read convincingly. There's no limit to what can go into it in terms of background research, feeling, or your own interests in form and history. But what should come out is something that reads as convincing English-language text.
Jonathan Galassi
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Convincing
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Translation
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Leverage is great when it works, and when it doesn't work, it creates a lot of issues. So I think if you limit the amount of leverage that people can borrow, or that banks can borrow, I think you'll find that you'll have a lot less issues going forward.
Marc Lasry
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Work Great People
Banks
Borrow
Creates
Leverage
Limit
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My principal contribution to the Black-Scholes option-pricing theory was to show that the dynamic trading strategy prescribed by Black and Scholes to offset the risk exposure of an option would provide a perfect hedge in the limit of continuous trading.
Robert C. Merton
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Exposure
Principal
Risk
Strategy
Theory
Trading
Continuous
Dynamic
Option
Hedge
Limit
Offset
Prescribed
Provide
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Running a magazine is a journalistic assignment, and part of the fun of being a journalist is that you get to change jobs every so often. Though there's no stated term limit, four or five years should be plenty of time to put your stamp on a publication.
Jacob Weisberg
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Journalist
Journalistic
Publication
Time Change Your
Assignment
Limit
Magazine
Stamp
Stated
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I think parents are probably really excited for their kids and want to give them everything. But there should be a limit on how much you give your kids. Because kids are quite creative, especially at a young age when they don't really know what rules are.
Ann Makosinski
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Young Age
Limit
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama
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44Th U.s. President
Leadership
Failure
America
Debate
Deserve
Effort
Increase
Problem
Debt Limit
Intend
Limit
Oppose
Raising
Sign
Therefore
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I think it's a completely good thing to want to do business, to want to make money and be a success in the marketplace, to get the attention of customers. I'm not in the business of pointing fingers or blaming companies, but there is a limit to everything.
Margrethe Vestager
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Business
Attention
Customers
Fingers
Marketplace
Pointing
Pointing Fingers
Success Good Money
Success Good Business
Blaming
Companies
Success Business Good
Good Thing
Limit
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I tend to approach characters not based on ethnicity but on some unique individual qualities, and I've set my whole life that way. I don't want any sort of limitations imposed on my work. If you truly want to be a creative person, you can't limit yourself.
Billy Dee Williams
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Actor
Creative Person
Ethnicity
Life Work Yourself
Imposed
Limit
Qualities
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I'm saying this as a Republican: In the White House, the effort that goes in and wherever these decisions are made, as to limit civilian casualties, is more probably than any in the history of the world, especially when you consider the history of warfare.
Peter T. King
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Casualties
Civilian Casualties
Warfare
White House
Civilian
Limit
Wherever
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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
David Viscott
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Author
Failure
Consequence
Effort
Enthusiasm
Hurt
Natural
Odds
Succeed
Thinking
Unfriendly
Time Yourself Your
Again
Face
Any Other Way
Fail
Invite
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Prolonged
Takes
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Decarbonization has already begun, and the appeal of a fossil-fuel-free world is growing - not only because it would limit climate change, but also because it would be more technologically advanced, democratic, resilient, healthy, and economically dynamic.
Johan Rockstrom
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Climate
Climate Change
Democratic
Healthy
Resilient
Change World Climate
Advanced
Change World More
Appeal
Begun
Dynamic
Economically
Limit
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If we want to set and enforce a limit on immigration, we have to be willing to say no to would-be immigrants who look a lot like our own ancestors, not because there's anything wrong with them, but simply because admitting them would exceed our legal limit.
Jan C. Ting
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Professor
Legal
Admitting
Exceed
Immigrants
Would Be
Ancestors
Enforce
Limit
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To score points, you need a lot of consistent effort over the course of the game. If you're throwing it or running it in, it's not a big difference in terms of the score at all, obviously. But turnovers limit your scoring. That's the problem with turnovers.
Tom Brady
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Football Player
Consistent
Score
Throwing
Big Difference
Limit
The Problem With
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We are a retailer - we are a merchant. That is our business. But we look for places to make a positive difference. There is such a thing as a double bottom line, whether it is the wage increase or what we do with environmental sustainability to limit waste.
Doug Mcmillon
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Environmental
Bottom Line
Sustainability
Double
Limit
Merchant
Such A Thing
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I loved comics for a long time, loved the medium, and I love where comics are going. It's on the forefront of social issues, and there's no production value limit, so you can create an entire world. As long as you can visualize it, you can make it a reality.
Lights
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Musician
Long Time
Reality
Social Issues
Love Time World
Love Time Reality
Loved
Comics
Entire
Entire World
Forefront
Limit
Production
Medium
Value
Visualize
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We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.
Joe Elliott
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Singer-Songwriter
Music People Sometimes
Explain
Limit
Rock Band
Specific
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If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.
Aly Raisman
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Gymnast
Age
Juniors
Prepared
Team
Usa
Age World I Am
Younger
Definitely
Limit
Olympic
Ton
Tried
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I just know what I'm capable of. When I don't do it, you can always throw the excuse - you're young, it's a process, this and that - but I know what I can do. Just staying patient and just keep putting in hard work and keep God first and the sky is the limit.
D'angelo Russell
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Excuse
Patient
Sky
Staying
God Work Hard Work
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In any discussion of technology, you hear the same argument: You can't turn the clock back and you can't put the genie back in the bottle. Maybe not. But there are steps we can take to limit the social harm caused by this industry, just like we do with others.
Steve Hilton
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Clock
Discussion
Harm
Steps
Caused
Bottle
Genie
Limit
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The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
John Bates Clark
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Economist
Action
Competition
Seeming
Type
Ultimate
Ultimate Power
Check
Claim
Degree
Ideal
Limit
Monopolies
Narrow
Reveals
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On some issues, Republicans and Democrats disagree so sharply that compromise is nearly impossible. Republicans are not going to support a cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gases, and Democrats won't support a 1,000-mile wall on the border with Mexico.
Cass Sunstein
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Legal Scholar
Compromise
Disagree
Greenhouse Gases
Mexico
Border
Nearly
Democrats
Republicans
Gases
Greenhouse
Limit
Republicans And Democrats
Sharply
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I've found that if I limit my talking, just everyday talking, a couple of days before I have to sing, my voice is stronger. That really is about the only precaution that I take: I try to rest it as much as possible and keep the nutritional value of my food up.
Johnny Mathis
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Singer
Everyday
Precaution
Stronger
Limit
Nutritional
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I went from being a junior - and probably set to be Kushida's arch-nemesis until the cows came home - to suddenly being vaulted into the heavyweight title picture for the Intercontinental championship. That taught me a lesson: I couldn't put a limit on myself.
Kenny Omega
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Championship
Cows
Home Myself Me
Heavyweight
Junior
Lesson
Limit
Title
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We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.
George Edward Woodberry
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Literary Critic
Art
Knowledge
Running
Advancement
Contrary
Exhausted
Scientific Truth
Dead
Course
Foresee
Limit
No Limit
On The Contrary
Scientific
Vital
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When I do my own makeup, I limit my options: I have one Mac eye colour, a neutral shade with a bit of shimmer, plus eyeliner and subtle mascara. I wear a little foundation and put Laura Mercier concealer around my nose, underneath my eyes and on any dark spots.
Katie Melua
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Singer-Songwriter
Colour
Dark
Eye
Foundation
Laura
Makeup
Mascara
My Own
Plus
Shade
Spots
Subtle
Neutral
Bit
Mac
Wear
Limit
Nose
Options
Underneath
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The reality is there's a limit to how many people any country can bring in. And we as a country have a right to say we want to bring people based on their ability to contribute to our economy, to be safe, productive citizens, and to uplift the nation as a whole.
Stephen Miller
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Contribute
How Many People
Limit
Uplift
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The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.
Sherwood Boehlert
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American Politician
Technology
Demand
Despite
Fuel
Fuel Economy
Oil
Transportation
Exists
Limit
Requiring
Societal
Uses
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If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population.
Christian De Duve
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Researcher
Ethical
Hunters
Population
Sick
Habitable
Herd
Inhabitants
Limit
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We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is true everywhere.
John Key
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Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Demand
Dependent
Economy
New Zealand
Everywhere
Basic
Open
Dramatically
Flows
Global
Highly
Inevitably
Level
Limit
Reflected
Zealand
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At times, I'll watch a cruiserweight match, and I'm very impressed at how they limit themselves with all of the acrobatics, but every once in a while, you'll see a match where they're doing things I couldn't dream of doing, but you get lost because there's so much.
Randy Orton
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Professional Wrestler
Impressed
Limit
Match
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I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Business Person
Finance
Arguing
Ministers
Taxes
Benefit
Exempt
Limit
Profits
Successive
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The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.
Smedley Butler
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Author
War
Concern
Eight
Hundred
Normal
Percent
Six
Sky
States
Ten
Twelve
United States
Ah
Cent
Per
Limit
Profits
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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.
David Ricardo
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Economist
Goods
Labour
Objects
Bestow
Limit
Obtain
One Country
Procured
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What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.
James E. Faust
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Lawyer
Attitude
Honest
Judged
Lord
Ought
Sabbath
Unworthy
Worthy
Activities
Limit
To Be Honest
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I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
Patrick Ness
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Author
Describing
Happy People
Interpretation
Limit
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
Yoko Ono
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Artist
Art
Age
Desire
Elasticity
Fields
Gathering
Sound
Tempting
Why Not
Art Age Music
Artists
Forms
Course
Incredible
Limit
Medium
Mix
No Limit
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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
Jane Harrison
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Creation
Exist
Forth
Limit
No Limit
Outset
Vital
Wills
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I think it's important for anyone who takes cinema seriously not to limit yourself to just optimistic or happy movies. I think that's a problem. You've got to be willing to let the art of cinema take you into some darker places if you're going to make full use of it.
Scott Derrickson
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Director
Cinema
Darker
Limit
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Prior to my arrival at the Crowne Plaza in Indianapolis, my agent and I decided that it would be best not to participate in any drills at the combine. We wanted to wait until my pro day at Virginia, where I could limit the distractions and just focus on being my best.
D'brickashaw Ferguson
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Drills
Virginia
Agent
Arrival
Combine
Distractions
Limit
Participate
Plaza
Prior
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
Laura Moser
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Environmental
Betrayed
Better Life
Civil Rights
Guilt
Immigration
Moved
President
Rights
Trump
Unspoken
Young
Young Children
Civil
Contract
Parents
Limit
President Trump
Quickly
Somehow
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin
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Artist
Evil
Order
True Meaning
Virtue
Winning
Words
Build
Life Good Evil
Apart
Apply
Life Good Will
Least
Limit
Meaning
Takes
Unless
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There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
Leon Trotsky
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Revolutionary
Car
Application
Democratic
Impossible
Limits
Passengers
Speed
Train
Type
Accident
Brakes
Full
Inquire
Limit
Methods
Question
Ride
Threatens
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
Edmund White
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Novelist
Combination
Endure
Hundred
Length
Masterpiece
Narrative
Solitude
Unprecedented
Episodic
Hundred Years
Limit
Rigorous
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The devil took advantage of Christ's hunger to tempt him to limit his concern to the relief of human need. These are vital concerns, but they cannot be the sole concern of the Church. We need daily bread; we need, too, a reason for living, a sense of purpose, a vision.
Basil Hume
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Bread
Concern
Daily Bread
Hunger
Relief
Sole
Limit
Tempt
Vital
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Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.
Sebastian Thrun
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Educator
Lectures
Pace
Trial And Error
Classrooms
Error
Limit
Passively
Trial
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I try to limit my time with Michael Davies to as little as possible per week, and he is pretty good with that, since he has a bazillion things to do. When I do see him, I try not to talk about dental work or anything like that because I know the Brits get very sensitive.
Katie Nolan
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Brits
Dental
My Time
Sensitive
Time Work Good
Michael
Work Time Good
Per
Limit
Pretty Good
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
Gary Johnson
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Former Governor Of New Mexico
Choices
Party
Principles
Real
Sidelines
Status Quo
Two
Hope People Will
Alternative
Flavors
In Fact
Major
Join
Limit
Parties
Quo
Stand Up
Status
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