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We live in an anaesthetized society.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
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If you disaggregate, things fall apart.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Fall
Falling Apart
Ifs
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Go off-road...Practice a little daring.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Believe
Littles
Practice
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George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
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God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Doe
Promise
Tomorrow
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You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Next
Thinking
Vietnam
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The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Art
Get Well
Sick
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Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Love
Majesty
Soil
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There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Filibuster
Governing
Senate
Use
Proper
Rule
Uses
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The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Peace
War
Air
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The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Earth
Snow
United States
African
Aid
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In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Bits
Insecure
Security
Social
Social Security
In Other Words
Market
Stock
Stock Market
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Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Campaigns
Decent
People
Perfect
Political
Political People Sometimes
Decent People
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Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Dog
Investigators
Laughing
Surprise
Discovered
Dogs
Laugh
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Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Issues
People
Taken
Voting
Best Time People
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The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Long
Long Term
Real
Rip
Security
Short Term
Sin
Social
Social Security
Scam
Rip-Off
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It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Anything And Everything
Common
Including
Mistake
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Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Government
Fall
People
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It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Introvert
People
Quiet
Auditorium
No Sense
Pack
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We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Heart
People
Snow
Essential
Hearts
Persuade
Rebuild
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The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Illness
Secret
Sick
The Secret Of
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The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Peace
Brushes
Oil
Paint
Pipeline
Showing Up
Snow
Two
Requires
Showing
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When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Healed
Patient
Politician
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Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Liberty
Risk
Tragedy
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We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Eye
Simple
Spiritual
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If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Thanksgiving
Independence
Defining
Hands
Holiday
Independence Day
Thinking
Title
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You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Graduation
People
Prayer
Underestimate
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American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Abu Ghraib
Perfect
Prison
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Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Giving
People
Pluto
Public Affairs
Rip
Topography
Affairs
Public
Give
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George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Broke
Lost
Mold
Popular Vote
Vote
Years
Years Ago
Bush
Won
George
George W
George W. Bush
Governed
Popular
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Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Kindness
Providing
Shelter
Simple
Snow
Somewhere
Clothing
Near
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President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Drug
Fighting
President
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In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Eye
Joy
Soul
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It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Dictatorship
President
President Bush
Promoting
Serious
Bush
Dictatorships
Free Societies
Societies
Notice
Peaceable
Serve
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That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Science
Doe
Giving
Involving
Variables
Id
Measurable
Qualify
Requires
Test
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Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Blindness
Civilization
Liberty
Loathe
Thug
Western
Western Civilization
Afford
Annihilate
Anymore
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
Thugs
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Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Home
Pet
Animal
Desire
Lovers
Plenty
Sin
Stories
Animals
Drive
Provide
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I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Hate
Mail
Naughty
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Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Science
Each Day
Errors
Trial And Error
Clearly
Error
Grasp
Involves
Wonders
Refine
Scientists
Theories
Trial
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Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Thankful
Ability
Authority
Enterprise
Flow
Giving
Liberty
Military
Military Power
Surprising
Thanks
Vitality
Wealth
Greatest
Global
National
Treasures
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Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Girl
Baby
Benefits
Boomers
Drawing
Receiving
Retired
Security
Social Security
Time Today Will
Baby Boomers
By The Time
Million
Retirees
Social Security Benefits
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Believe
Blessing
Destiny
Liberty
Spread
Blessings
Depend
Free Societies
Societies
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It's hard to describe, but there are times when... you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up - to speak to Him about us!
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Speak
Spirit
Talking
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When you die, you graduate. I don't worry about death. Sickness teaches there is joy in everything. Take joy in your sickness because a lot of times God is telling you: 'You may not know it, but you're more blessed than you realized.'
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Blessed
Joy
Worry
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To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Faith
Believe
Cocky
Insight
God Faith Truth
Hearts
Successes
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Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Capture
Confusion
Higher
Joy
Longing
Lust
Melody
Mere
Obvious
Ought
Rage
Share
Triumph
Yearning
Good Music
Writers
Experiences
Express
Generally
Higher Plane
Moods
Plane
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[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Children
Issues
Medicine
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One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Names
Npr
White
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It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.
Tony Snow / Former White House Press Secretary
Careers
Pain
Special
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