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I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.
Juan Cole
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Academic
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Arrogant
Believe
Ignorant
Incompetent
International
International Law
Iraq
Law
Pursued
Senators
Policies
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Since taking office, President Obama has pursued a policy that focused more American resources and engagement in the Asia-Pacific, a region that will increasingly define opportunity and security in the 21st century.
Ben Rhodes
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Engagement
President Obama
Pursued
Define
Increasingly
Region
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
Yves Behar
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Designer
Affordable
Innovative
Notion
Pursued
Sustainability
Advance
Less
Possible
Complex
Finding
Making
Reduce
Truly
Ways
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It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.
Simon Greenleaf
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Accountability
Lively
Pursued
Sanctions
Solemn
Bestowed
Faculties
Presence
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To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
Viktor E. Frankl
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M.d.
American Culture
Pursued
Be Happy
Characteristic
European
Ordered
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
Patrick J. Adams
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Actor
Age
Mom
Pursued
Want
Young Age
Mom Age Me
Awhile
Age Mom Me
Michael
Fox
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The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.
William Banting
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Undertaker
Believe
Interesting
Merit
Pleasure
Pursued
Weight
Great I Am May
Believing
Demonstrate
Further
Gradual
Reductions
Serve
Stating
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I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn't want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice.
Gillian Jacobs
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Film Actress
Kids
Acting
Court
Justice
Pursued
Supreme
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice
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If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
Arlen Specter
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Former United States Senator
War
Alive
Cancer
Including
President Nixon
Pursued
Research
Saved
Thinking
Cured
Jack
Nixon
Prolonged
Strains
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Although focusing is best pursued as a deliberate strategy over a period of time, it is also valuable as a kind of psychological first-aid, as useful to a distressed, 'stuck' person as a tourniquet to an accident victim.
Marilyn Ferguson
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Author
Deliberate
Psychological
Pursued
Strategy
Stuck
Valuable
Accident
Useful
Distressed
Focusing
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
Lana Del Rey
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Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Luxury
Pursued
Thinking
Writing
Adored
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They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.
Neil Tennant
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Musician
Agendas
Careers
Music Industry
Performers
Pursued
Traditional
Instincts
Followed
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For more than fifty years, the United States pursued a policy of isolating and pressuring Cuba. While the policy was rooted in the context of the Cold War, our efforts continued long after the rest of the world had changed.
Ben Rhodes
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Cold War
Cuba
Pursued
Rooted
War World Long
Context
Efforts
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I think one of the most important directions to be pursued in the 'sciences of human action' is to develop a natural-law ethics based on nature rather than, or at least to supplement, ethics based on theological revelation.
Murray Rothbard
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Economist
Action
Ethics
Pursued
Theological
Based
Develop
Directions
Least
Revelation
Sciences
Supplement
The Most Important
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We believe that settlement expansion policies pursued in recent decades by successive Israeli governments have facilitated the process of de-facto annexation. It has complicated the dialogue between the different communities.
Peter Maurer
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Complicated
Decades
Dialogue
Expansion
Israeli
Pursued
Settlement
Communities
Governments
Policies
Recent
Successive
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That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
Brian De Palma
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Film Director
Dream
Girl
Feels
Guilty
Noir
Our Dreams
Pursued
Recurring
Strong
Archetypes
Dreams Time Me
Falling
Operating
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That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.
Joe Klein
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Journalist
Abraham
Deeds
Patronage
Pursued
Arts
Indeed
Lincoln
Low
Via
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I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.
Todd English
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Chef
Opportunity
Cooking
Father
Miami
Pursued
Seven
Team
Bailing
Baseman
Began
Coach
Colleges
Ended
Larger
Opportunities
Teams
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The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
Eduard Hanslick
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Music Critic
Aesthetic
Assumption
Beautiful
Feelings
Musical
Pursued
Music Beautiful Always
Awakens
Nearly
Describe
False
Hitherto
Inquire
Object
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One of the initiatives I have pursued in Parliament has been to make it easier for the public to see what their MPs do in the House of Commons by removing the ban on Parliamentary filming appearing on YouTube or similar web sites.
Jo Swinson
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Appearing
House Of Commons
Parliament
Pursued
Youtube
Ban
Commons
Filming
Initiatives
Removing
Sites
Web
Web Sites
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I've always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.
Britney Spears
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Artist
Inspiring
Positive
Energy
Fans
Heart
Imagine
Positive Energy
Pursued
General
Find
Definitely
Effect
Project
Followed
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Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.
Narendra Modi
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Prime Minister Of India
Allegations
Imagine
Prime Minister
Pursued
Above
Case
Minister
Pm
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In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself in her college dorm room, pursued by a man, either real or imagined, who finally materializes as the father she has never known.
Susan Shreve
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Point Of View
Pursued
Dorm
Herself
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Judicial Watch has long called for the shutdown of the Mueller special counsel operation and have pursued dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits in connection with the illicit targeting and other abuses of President Trump.
Tom Fitton
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Activist
Abuse
Information
Judicial
Pursued
Special
Trump
Connection
Counsel
Dozens
Operation
President Trump
Targeting
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Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us.
Elliott Abrams
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Lawyer
Human Rights
Pursued
Understood
Activists
Bush
Effective
George
George W
George W. Bush
Imperative
Policies
Presidents
Safer
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The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president's authority to conduct foreign policy.
Benjamin Wittes
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Authority
Counterintelligence
Foreign Policy
Policy
President
Pursued
Surveillance
Conduct
Constitutional
Criminal
Investigations
Standard
Supposed
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I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.
William Jackson
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Political Figure
Animal
Children
Insert
No Idea
Position
Programming
Pursued
Successful
Rare
Door
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I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
Wendy Davis
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Lawyer
Believe
Checks
Gun
Pursued
Right Thing
Wind
Background
Bill
Senator
Desk
Governor
Provided
Sign
Spitting
The Right Thing
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
J. William Fulbright
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Former United States Senator
War
Bangkok
Ignorant
Japan
Johnson
People
Pursued
Vietnam
Acted
War People Way
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I think every classically trained film composer feels to some extent, maybe on some level, that they took the low road, that they could have maybe pursued a career in the concert music world, and perhaps been involved in a higher quality of music.
James Newton Howard
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Film Score Composer
Composer
Feels
Higher
Involved
Pursued
Concert
Extent
Higher Quality
Low
Music World
Perhaps
Trained
Took
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I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.
Jeb Bush
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Former Governor Of Florida
Ambition
Eight
Focus
Pursued
Years
Life Time Chance
Decade
Governor
Rearrange
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
Adam Clarke
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Men
Consequence
Convinced
Infancy
Infancy Is
Manhood
Mean
Pursued
Attained
Watch
Few Men
Let Us
Line
Shall
Soon
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What I sacrificed as I pursued my dreams was my comfort, not the lives of other people who looked to me to stay afloat. That alone freed me to take more risks, which did pay off in dividends. Having a safety net is an asset that most people do not have.
Luvvie Ajayi
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Comfort
Dividends
Pursued
Safety Net
Afloat
Asset
Freed
Net
Sacrificed
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The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.
Adoniram Judson
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Missionary
Acceptable
Eloquent
Foreign Language
Missionary
My Own
Order
Peculiar
Preacher
Pursued
Ships
Since
Became
Burnt
Course
Crossed
Deliberately
Foreign
River
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Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
Andrew Weil
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Medical Doctor
Awareness
Determination
Grim
Meditation
Openness
Pursued
Relaxation
Technique
Undisciplined
Walking
Breath
Cultivate
Include
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There are potentially many offences that journalists could commit in the course of their business. It would be very unhealthy if you had a situation where a journalist felt that they needed to go to their lawyer before they pursued any lead or asked any question.
Keir Starmer
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Barrister
Commit
Journalist
Lawyer
Pursued
Unhealthy
Journalists
Potentially
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I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.
John Wesley
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Theologian
Jesus
Christ
Christianity
Desire
Jesus Christ
Pursued
Solitude
Vain
Model
Nearer
Reflected
So Many Years
Therefore
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I first felt the addictive power of 'Game of Thrones' when I was prime minister, living in a world where power was also pursued relentlessly, albeit far less colourfully. Certainly, the characters of my world were nowhere near as good looking or exotically dressed.
Julia Gillard
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Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Prime Minister
Pursued
Addictive
Good Power World
Relentlessly
Albeit
Good Power Game
Nowhere
Power Good World
Dressed
Far Less
Game Of Thrones
Minister
Near
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My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.
Jason Mraz
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Singer-Songwriter
Being Myself
Closest
Discovery
Pursued
Songwriting
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The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.
Robert Toombs
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Former U.s. Senator
Advantage
Congress
Instant
Organized
Pursued
Benefit
Northern
Powers
Steadily
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It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.
Jason Marsden
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Voice Actor
Corporate
Higher
Pursued
Accumulate
Resume
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Whereas Jimmy Carter had aggressively pursued anti-merger activity - the imbecilic case against AT&T was prosecuted under President Carter - Mr. Reagan understood the virtue of allowing companies to exploit the synergies of mergers to gain efficiency and lower costs.
Stephen Moore
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Activity
Allowing
Carter
Efficiency
Jimmy
Mergers
President
Pursued
Understood
Virtue
Mr
Companies
Exploit
Gain
Jimmy Carter
Lower
Prosecuted
Reagan
Whereas
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I'll say initially acting was my first love, and that's what I pursued. But then, so far as even my first day on a film set, and just watching how things were set up, I just said, 'I think I want to be in charge.' I am very much type-A. I am a bit of a control freak.
Chris Evans
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Actor
Acting
Control Freak
Film
Film Set
First Love
Freak
Pursued
Control
Love I Am Day
Bit
Charge
Love Day I Am
Set
Initially
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I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.
Lucy Davis
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Long Way
Our Lives
Pursued
About A Year
Learnt
Quote
Realise
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With Pablo, I lose my reason, and with me, he loses his head; and then all that's left is a man pursued by justice and a woman pursued by the media who know and take care of and need each other, despite the pain caused by all the absences, all his crimes and her sins.
Virginia Vallejo
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Despite
Loses
Media
Pain
Pursued
Take Care
Caused
Absences
Crimes
Sins
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But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.
Jason Mraz
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Singer-Songwriter
Being Myself
Closest
Competition
Discovery
Pursued
Songwriting
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In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.
John Ensign
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Former United States Senator
Conceded
Percentages
Pursued
Race
Reasonable
Should Have
Less
Close
Harry
Harry Reid
Percentage
Recount
Reid
Tenth
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My first exposure to sanitation issues occurred when I got admission into an engineering college. They probably didn't want to admit me and informed me that there was no ladies toilet in the college. I was adamant and pursued my studies in engineering in that very college.
Sudha Murty
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Adamant
Admission
Engineering
Exposure
Pursued
Sanitation
Informed
Toilet
Ladies
Occurred
Studies
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I used to tell people that in 2012 when I was trying to understand where am I most likely to be drafted and who are the three or four teams that have pursued me the most and it would make sense that they would pick me, I never thought of who would be least likely to draft me.
Kirk Cousins
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Football Player
Pursued
Me People Never
Me People Trying
Draft
Least
Likely
Pick
Teams
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'Backwash' is an old-school, slapstick-y romp between three eccentric loser friends who inadvertently rob a bank, armed solely with a salami and a sweat sock, and then find themselves on the run pursued by singing cops. It's kind of a classic piece, a sophisticated piece, if you will.
Joshua Malina
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Film Actor
Classic
Eccentric
Pursued
Sock
Sweat
Armed
Bank
Cops
Rob
Inadvertently
Solely
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