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Cleanliness is the scourge of art.
Craig Brown /
Cleanliness
Scourge
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Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.
Stephen Grellet /
War
Scourge
Indeed
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There is now a scourge that is called Twitter
Recep Tayyip Erdogan / Prime Minister Of Turkey
Scourge
Social Media
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Abortion continues to be a scourge against this country.
Franklin Graham / Evangelist
Abortion
Country
Scourge
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Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
Juvenal / Poet
Executioners
Scourge
Secret
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Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.
Maxwell Maltz / Author
Mankind
Scourge
Worry
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I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd U.s. President
Peace
War
Mankind
Scourge
Views
Abhor
View
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The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.
Stephen King / Author
Heal
Scourge
Tears
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Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.
Mahatma Gandhi / Civil Rights Leader
Men
Iniquity
Scourge
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To tackle the scourge of young unemployment we need to be ambitious.
David Lammy / British Politician
Ambitious
Scourge
Unemployment
Tackle
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Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.
Winnie Byanyima / Engineer
Abuse
Scourge
Tax
Africa
Global
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Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.
Neil Postman / Author
Childhood
Reading
Scourge
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Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.
Yoshiro Mori / Former Prime Minister Of Japan
Japan
Nuclear
Scourge
Weapons
Suffered
Only Country
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The West needs leaders with the courage and the will to fight the scourge of radical Islam.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Islam
Radical Islam
Scourge
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We stand for law and order, so we will not allow the scourge of violence to infect our communities.
Amber Rudd /
Law And Order
Scourge
Infect
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Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.
Eliot Engel / U.s. Representative
Anti Semitism
Decades
Genocide
Holocaust
Scourge
World
After
Nearly
Concluded
Exists
Still
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The scourge of unlawful robocalls is technically complex to address, and no single action will get the job done.
Ajit Pai /
Scourge
Unlawful
Technically
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
Lucretius / Poet
Absent
Blow
Dungeons
Guilty
Mind
Scourge
Apply
Blows
Dungeon
Executioner
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All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.
Ephraim Mirvis /
Oppression
Prejudice
Scourge
Virtue
Societies
Validating
Wrestle
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It is necessary that we eliminate the scourge of terrorism in all its forms, without any discrimination, and end the ecosystem of its support.
Sushma Swaraj / Minister Of External Affairs Of India
Discrimination
Scourge
Terrorism
Ecosystem
Eliminate
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Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is a scourge for humanity, and America must project its values and protect vulnerable persons.
Jeff Fortenberry /
America
Form
Humanity
Modern
Persons
Scourge
Slavery
Trafficking
Vulnerable
Project
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Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.
Vito Fossella / Politician
Cows
Elements
Lebanon
Radical
Scourge
Terrorism
Obstacle
Partner
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War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther / Monk
Religion
War
Humanity
Plague
Scourge
States
Afflict
Greatest
Destroys
Families
Preferable
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I personally don't like guns at all, so pointing a gun at someone or having a gun pointed at me makes me feel very unbecoming. I think they're a scourge.
Bob Morley /
Gun
Scourge
Me Feel Someone
Guns
Pointed
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
Aung San Suu Kyi / Burmese Politician
Inspirational
Motivational
Power
Fear
Losing
Power Corrupts
Scourge
Who
Those
Corrupts
Subject
Wield
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We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
War
Forever
Humanity
Scourge
Years
War Humanity World
Endured
Sufferings
World War
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Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.
Ken Salazar / Former United States Secretary Of The Interior
Colorado
Immune
Rural Areas
Scourge
Urban
Urban Areas
Area
Major
Larger
Major Problem
Region
Rural
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Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
Manmohan Singh / Prime Minister Of India
Zero
Challenges
International
International Law
Law
Resolve
Scourge
Terrorism
Tolerance
Unity
Zero Tolerance
Challenge
Meet
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I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.
Steven Hatfill / Scientist
Government
Country
Effort
Offensive
Protect
Public Health
Scourge
Warfare
Health Government I Am
Biological
Efforts
Extremely
Safeguard
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Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.
Jane Poynter /
Ocean
Environmental
Farms
Point Of View
Scourge
Shrimp
Frankly
Huge Amounts
Neighbors
Pour
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While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.
Douglas Brinkley / Author
Broke
Following
Racism
Scourge
Slavery
Surrender
Blacks
Chain
Crippling
Sadly
Sung
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Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.
Frances Beinecke /
Environmental
Climate Change
Ill
Obligation
Our Time
Protect
Scourge
Central
Dangers
Widening
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Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.
Shelby Steele / Author
Age
History
Human Condition
Immorality
Racism
Scourge
Stupidity
Now
Against
Condition
Crowning
Endemic
Human
Guard
Recognized
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As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I'm concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people's lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.
John Kennedy /
Concerned
Crime
Judiciary
Policy
Public Policy
Scourge
Senate
Committee
Communities
Judiciary Committee
Member
Minority
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The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.
Gro Harlem Brundtland / Md
Health
Given
Hunger
Malnutrition
Needs
Scourge
Women People Will
Women Are
Health Women People
Basic
Dual
Full
Met
Societies
Rightful
Role
Truly
Vanquished
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I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.
Charles Lawrence /
Civil Society
Firm
Guardian
Innocent
Liberty
Protection
Scourge
Terror
Wicked
Basis
Civil
Gentlemen
Solid
Shall
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What will be the final straw that finally forces Congress to at least open up formal debate - let alone introduce a bill, pass it, and have it signed into law - that curbs the scourge of gun deaths across the country?
Patrick Murphy /
Formal
Gun
Scourge
Deaths
Final
Introduce
Signed
Straw
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Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
Hussein Of Jordan /
Burden
Civilized
Developing
Gun
Scourge
Social Development
Arch
Blocks
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African Americans are concerned about the scourge of abortion in their community, and respond to related facts and figures. Large majorities agree that every life should have a chance, regardless of race, socioeconomic status or circumstance.
Kellyanne Conway / Strategist
Abortion
Figures
Related
Scourge
African
African Americans
Circumstance
Respond
Regardless
Status
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While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research skills to consult. And, along with my dad, she even ran a soul food restaurant for my great-aunt.
Stacey Abrams /
Entrepreneurial
Poverty
Ran
Research
Scourge
Skills
Working Class
Consult
Full-Time
Restaurant
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It is true that large parts of the world have not had to endure state-to-state wars for decades. The majority of the world's nations have also been spared the scourge of civil wars, although many have known violence from revolutionary insurrection.
Margaret Macmillan / Historian
Decades
Endure
Insurrection
Revolutionary
Scourge
Civil Wars
Spared
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It is in the interest of France that the United States and Russia speak to each other and act in good faith against the scourge of terrorism in Syria, and contribute with our country to stabilizing a region where uncontrolled migrant flows begin today.
Marine Le Pen / Member Of The European Parliament
France
Good Faith
Russia
Scourge
Syria
Terrorism
Contribute
Flows
Migrant
Region
Uncontrolled
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In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.
Tim Jackson / Economist
Avoiding
Chasing
Decent
Restoring
Scourge
Unemployment
Craft
Rightful
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It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.
Michael Specter / Journalist
Atlanta
Disease
Facility
Locked
Remarkable
Scourge
Secure
Siberia
Smallpox
Tiny
Centers
Highly
Similarly
Stored
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Vanished
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One of our priorities is to have an enabling environment for private investment, both domestic and foreign investment, and that means we are going to officially combat corruption because we believe that this scourge, this illness, hinders our efforts to attract private investors.
Joao Lourenco /
Combat
Enabling
Environment
Illness
Investment
Priorities
Scourge
Attract
Domestic
Efforts
Hinders
Officially
Private
Private Investment
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Historical records show that smallpox was a human scourge for thousands of years. The virus produces high fever, severe back pain and scarring eruptions of flat red spots on the skin that turn into pustules and then into scabs - a two-week process during which the disease is highly contagious.
Scott Gottlieb /
Contagious
Fever
Historical
Scourge
Severe
Smallpox
Spots
Highly
Produces
Thousands Of Years
Virus
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I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases - smallpox, polio, etc. So vaccines are an invaluable medication. Like any medication, they also should be - what shall we say? - approved by a regulatory board that people can trust.
Jill Stein / Physician
Trust
Approved
Critical
Etc
Invaluable
Medication
Polio
Scourge
Smallpox
Vaccines
Absolutely
Board
Diseases
No Question
Question
Regulatory
Shall
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Famine emerges from a lack of interlocal trade; when one locality's food crop fails, since there is virtually no trade with other localities, the bulk of the people starve. It is precisely the permeation of the free market throughout the world that has virtually ended this scourge of famine by permitting trade between areas.
Murray Rothbard / Economist
Free Market
Locality
Scourge
Bulk
Crop
Emerges
Ended
Fails
Precisely
Starve
Virtually
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While writing, saying, and doing much, Mr. Trump is apologizing for his past sins. He's walking away from supporting abortion, hurling insults and more. Now, America needs to follow suit and apologize for the scourge of legal abortion that has left millions of empty cradles, wombs barren, women's health damaged, and families broken.
Alveda King / Pro-Life Activist
Legal
Abortion
Apologizing
Barren
Broken
Empty
Scourge
Apologize
Mr
Damaged
Insults
Sins
Suit
Supporting
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