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For almost every novel I've written, I've read the daily newspaper of the time almost as if it were my current subscription. For 'Two Moons,' which was set in 1877, I think I read just about every day of the 'Washington Evening Star' for that year. For 'Henry and Clara,' I read the 'Albany Evening Journal' of the time.
Thomas Mallon / Novelist
Albany
Evening
Journal
Subscription
Current
Newspaper
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Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each week on all platforms, and nobody seems to want to tell us. If a disproportionate number of any show's viewers watch in alternative ways, then, under the current system, that show may not appear to be as strong as it actually is.
Steven Levitan / Screenwriter
Ideas
Modern Family
No Idea
Numbers
Platforms
Producers
Strong
Viewers
Alternative
Appear
Current
Disproportionate
Each Week
How Many People
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It's a sense of pride, a sense of you set out to get a record deal, and we got that. We set out to get a No. 1 record, and then we got that. Then you say, 'Wow, that was impossible and now even more impossible is to stay No. 1 and stay current and put out new records that people care about,' and we really stuck to that.
David Bryan /
Pride
Stuck
Wow
Current
Record Deal
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I can't control life for my grandchildren, so how could I control a story? Sometimes I try to force something, and after working and working on that chapter, I realise that I am swimming against the current. I will never get there. So I have to let go of whatever previous idea I had about it and let the characters decide.
Isabel Allende / Writer
Grandchildren
Swimming
Chapter
Current
Let Go
Previous
Realise
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The tactical issue is ISIS or ISIL in the greater Levant area, which is essentially Syria, and Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, et cetera. But the wider problem is not just trans-regional in that part of the world, but it's also global. I mean, 40 to 50 countries supplying fighters to this current fight in the Middle East? Come on.
Michael T. Flynn /
East
Greater
Jordan
Lebanon
Middle
Middle East
Problem
Syria
Area
Countries
Current
Fight
Essentially
Fighters
Global
Issue
Supplying
Wider
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I'm not a gadget freak, so to say. I own an iPhone, which I love, and would sorely love to upgrade to MacBook Air from my current MacBook Pro. But what gets me going is the technology behind the gadgets, new websites, new apps. And I'm way too much into social media - FB, Twitter and Instagram are always open on my phone.
Shreya Ghoshal / Playback Singer
Technology
Air
Apps
Freak
Instagram
Iphone
Social
Social Media
Too Much
Love Always Me
Love Technology Me
Love Technology Always
Twitter
Always
Much
Me
Own
Behind
Open
Too
Current
Phone
Say
Gadget
Gets
Would
Pro
Upgrade
Websites
Which
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For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.
James Buchan / Novelist
Bloody
Bombers
Brutal
Desperate
East
Gaza
Giving
Middle East
Prestige
Suicide
Symbolic
Victory
West
Bin
Current
Distant
Regarded
Romantics
Victories
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
Callie Khouri / Television Screenwriter
Crowds
Early 20s
Faces
Saws
Shocked
Andy
Watched
Current
Directed
Million Times
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We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.
Robert Fisk / Writer
East
First World War
Great War
Middle East
War Great World
Believed
Cope
Current
Fathers
First World
Fought
Grandfathers
Produced
World War
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For me, there's one film at a time, and my only benchmark is that my current film should be better than my last one, and I've made sure of that. If you Google the trailer of my first film - which I request you not to - you'll see the vast change in my approach towards my profession and the slow gain of maturity in performing.
Harshvardhan Rane /
Maturity
Profession
Request
Benchmark
Change Time Better
Change Time Me
Current
Vast
Gain
Slow
Trailer
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert Kennedy / Former U.s. Senator
Daring
Different
Energy
Injustice
Oppression
Resistance
Ripple
Strikes
Tiny
Build
Lot
Against
Acts
Time Hope Man
Man
Crossing
Those
He
Centers
Current
Down
Each
Each Time
Forth
Ideal
Improve
Mightiest
Million
Other
Up
Ripples
Sends
Stands
Sweep
Walls
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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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Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make a sharp turn, and you don't know what's around the corner. It could be a waterfall, it could be a big pool. The narrative current carries you. You're surprised, and you're thrilled, and sometimes you're terrified.
Peter Heller / Author
Narrative
Paddling
Pool
Terrified
Me Sometimes Know
Canyon
Carries
Corner
Current
River
Sharp
Surprised
Thrilled
Waterfall
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I randomly took an acting class in undergrad and was reading a monologue from 'Lemon Sky' by Lanford Wilson, and I felt such a connection to the material and then to the audience as I was doing it. This electric current ran through the author, me and the audience, and I felt connected in a way that rarely happens. I was hooked.
Conrad Ricamora /
Connected
Electric
Hooked
Ran
Sky
Wilson
Acting Class
Author
Current
Monologue
Lemon
Randomly
Rarely
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I talk about any number of things on my Facebook space. Politics. Current events. The writing life. The latest tempests in a teapot centering on fandom. Daily doings from my own life. My cats, for crying out loud. Flights of humorous fantasy. Books, both those I've read and those I've written. Movies. And occasionally, TV shows.
Adam-Troy Castro /
Current Events
Fantasy
Humorous
Loud
Tv Shows
Cats
Crying
Current
Daily
Facebook
Number
Flights
Latest
Occasionally
Teapot
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Marriage is not a magical potion that serves to amplify adoration, reduce deep-seated feelings of resentment, erase fears of commitment, or answer questions about whether or not this is the right move. Marriage is a ceremony that cements your current bond to another human being, and while that's a huge thing, that's all it does.
Emily V. Gordon /
Marriage
Adoration
Amplify
Ceremony
Commitment
Erase
Resentment
Questions
Bond
Current
Fears
Huge Thing
Human Being
Magical
Reduce
Serve
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When I see Mario Gotze, his development does not go in the right direction. He has outstanding qualities, but he has not reached his potential for whatever reason. His charisma is not so good, fellow players, coaches, fans and the media do not feel that he is fighting against his current situation. He's more an introvert player.
Michael Ballack / Soccer Player
Charisma
Coaches
Current Situation
Development
Fighting
Mario
Outstanding
Right Direction
Current
Direction
Fellow
Qualities
Reached
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I was surprised by some of my French colleagues who immediately assumed that because I spoke English with an American accent, that, therefore, you must be a supporter of whoever is the current president of the United States. There seems to be this widespread feeling that, 'Oh, American accent - therefore, you like cowboy boots.'
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / President Of Estonia
Boots
Colleagues
Cowboy
Supporter
Accent
American Accent
Assumed
Current
Surprised
Whoever
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I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up - just as we did 'so long ago.'
Adora Svitak / Author
Natural Resources
Resources
Comparisons
Current
Occupy
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I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.
Hugh Laurie / Actor
Men
Affair
All Things
Boxing
Eastern
Grew
Hands
Impatience
Love Affair
Pajamas
Response
White
Love Men Me
Why
Bit
Sooner
Chi
Current
Set
Each
Feeling
Hand
Maybe
Pencil
Sneeze
Took
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Exposed in the relentless Palin attacks is not just political bias but unmitigated class bias. The American mainstream media in its current free-fall is begging for more comeuppance when it continues to berate the values and lifestyles of the folks in flyover country who, in simpler times, used to be considered valued customers.
Andrew Breitbart / Publisher
Begging
Bias
Customers
Exposed
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Palin
Relentless
Attacks
Current
Valued
Lifestyles
Simpler
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Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.
Heather Watts /
Achievement
Ballet
Dancer
Debut
Iconic
Masterpiece
Metropolitan
Misty
Opera
Opera House
Alight
Center
Crowning
Current
Queen
Lake
Lincoln
Regardless
Swan
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The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.
Chris Hadfield / Astronaut
Space
Bed
Discovery
Gazing
Humanity
International
International Space Station
Invention
Laboratory
Legacy
Phenomenal
Take Care
Understanding
Window
Actual
Attempts
Better Understanding
Current
Planet
Space Station
Station
Step
Test
Unparalleled
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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
Bill Walton / Basketball Player
Running
Acid
Electric
Life Changing
Pain
Spine
Submerged
Unrelenting
Life Pain My Life
Collapsed
Current
Debilitating
Describe
Failed
Excruciating
Floor
Irrevocably
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Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I'd guess the latter.
Lev Grossman / Novelist
Latter
Platforms
Publishers
Smart
Current
Literary
Healthier
Substantially
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The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.
Robert Pinsky / Poet
Architecture
Current
Poem
Qualities
Young Artist
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Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.
James Fenimore Cooper /
Ignorant
Improving
Labour
Neglect
Parent
Submit
Acquisitions
Apt
Current
Finds
Possesses
Quietly
Shrink
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I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.
Jude Law / Actor
Life Time Good
Chapter
Current
Ingrained
Memory
Really Long Time
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When I dabble in watching the news and reading about current events, I tend to get a future negative view, and that's something I've dealt with through music. It's quite possible I'm slightly paranoid. But I'd say making music is an expression of feelings of helplessness and lack of control that I think a lot of people can relate to.
Matt Bellamy /
Current Events
Helplessness
Current
Dabble
Dealt
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I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.
Mitchell Zuckoff / Professor
Clouds
Fraud
Issues
Mean
Plenty
Social Security
Cloud
Confront
Current
Scheme
Illuminate
Misleading
Unsustainable
Urge
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Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.
Timothy Geithner / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Crisis
Factors
Acute
Bear
Broader
Contain
Current
Lie
Forces
Substantial
Troubles
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I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how the past is, and a lot of academic archaeology is about refining the model. It's not about changing the model radically. I'm not aware of any current which is about radically changing the model. It's just me, really.
Graham Hancock / Writer
Academic
Archaeology
Refining
Current
Radically
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
Tara Brach / Psychologist
Acceptance
Book
Forgiving
Nurturing
Path
Radical
Refuge
Strong
Suffering
Teaching
Understanding
Unworthy
Basic
Current
Deficient
Personally
Practices
Quick
Teachings
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I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.
Carl Hart / Professor
Boredom
Consciousness
Curiosity
Humans
Stress
Alter
Always Curiosity People
Attempted
Current
Current State
Experiencing
Just Be
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Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.
Irving Azoff / Manager
Artist
Changed
Important
Income
Industry
Majority
Models
Music Business
Revenue
Touring
Since
Artists
Fan
Catalog
Current
Derived
Diminished
Drastically
Experiences
Promotions
Stream
Truly
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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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U.S. capital formation, which has been pretty high in the '90s and very high in the late 1990s, is what is being financed by the savings of the rest of the world, generally poorer than ourselves, because our deficit on current account, chronic deficit, is their surplus, and they have been willingly bringing that to the American market.
Paul Samuelson / Economist
Deficit
Formation
Savings
Surplus
Account
Bringing
Capital
Chronic
Current
Financed
Poorer
Willingly
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I did, of course, do research about what the current state of affairs is in terms of the eating disorder community and who's being affected, and I was surprised to see that - something that was - way back when I was in the thick of it, it was typified as a fairly white, middle-class girl problem. And if it was, it really isn't anymore.
Marti Noxon / Television Writer
Disorder
Thick
Fairly
Affairs
Current
Current State
Surprised
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The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
Caitlin Doughty /
Bears
Creatures
Customs
Desert
Eiffel
Eiffel Tower
Elephants
Harsh
Helping
Majestic
Outfits
Bodies
Current
Tower
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When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.
Ismail Haniyeh / Former Prime Minister Of The Palestinian National Authority
Patience
Cooking
Difficult Situations
Endure
Items
Mean
Rights
Meant
Current
Our People
Palestinians
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current projection of 3.3 million tourist arrivals in 2010, our aim is to eventually attract 6 million tourists. In the process, we expect to create 3 million jobs in the next six years.
Benigno Aquino Iii / President Of The Philippines
Jobs
Aim
Islands
Millions
Philippines
Projection
Six
Tourism
Years
Alike
Arrival
Attract
Cross
Current
Employ
Expect
Million
Skilled
Unskilled
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It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Feet
Jazz
Portraits
Saws
Size
Stars
Big Band
Perform
Nearly
Completed
Current
Measures
Onto
Paintings
Recognizable
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If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if I were a golfer in Indiana, I'd be hard-pressed to believe in climate change because nothing's going on there. But when you're up in the mountains and seeing the glaciers melt away, it's an obvious physical manifestation of a warming planet.
Conrad Anker / Rock Climber
Climate Change
Compare
Everest
Glaciers
Imagine
Indiana
Manifestation
Obvious
Change Believe Climate
Golfer
Photographs
Current
Current State
Melt
Planet
Warming
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The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.
James Hillman / Psychologist
Kids
Capacity
Effort
Huge
Ideas
Notion
Opposites
Work Keep People
Work Effort People
Living
Opposite
Affairs
Behind
Seen
Turning
Idea
Current
Current State
Old
Delusions
Illusions
Requires
Themselves
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I call my ring Procter and Gamble, because David paid for it through his first commercial from Head & Shoulders. When I met David, he was waiting tables. He was below broke, in deep debt, but I followed my heart. When you're looking for a mate, don't look at his current status, but his present potential that will become a part of his future.
Alysia Reiner / Film Actress
Broke
Debt
Gamble
Shoulders
Tables
David
Ring
Below
Commercial
Current
Followed
Mate
Status
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The cool thing about Snapchat is you can get a lot of news on there now. There's CNN, ESPN, and I find myself reading the most random articles. I don't know how it actually benefits me, but it's interesting. I like to stay up on current events, so I have to give kudos to Snapchat: they've done a good job of that. But I'm on there way too much.
Klay Thompson / Basketball Player
Cool
Articles
Benefits
Cnn
Current Events
Espn
Good Job
Interesting
News
Reading
Snapchat
Too Much
Good Myself Done
Cool Thing
Stay
Current
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Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.
Dale Archer / Psychiatrist
Parenting
Adopting
Children
Class
Evaluation
Financial
Inspire
Natural
Parent
Ready
Absolutely
Parenting Your Children
Classes
State
First
Current
Include
Mandatory
Put
Mental
Natural Resource
Well
Physical
Precious
Resource
Whether
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First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.
John S. Watson / Businessman
Debate
Despite
Energy
Fair Share
Gas
Higher
Oil
Pay
Rate
Tax
Businesses
Companies
Current
Effective
Fair
Manufacturers
Pays
Statutory
Tax Rate
Worldwide
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The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.
Greta Thunburg /
Burning
Climate
Crisis
Dependent
Destroying
Economic Growth
Ecosystems
Emissions
Everlasting
Greenhouse Gases
Hardest
Order
Because
Totally
Both
Create
Current
Easiest
Ever
Still
Faced
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Gases
Greenhouse
Must
Issue
Thereby
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