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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell / Novelist
Happiness
Men
Genius
Laughter
Young
Set
Intervened
Mercifully
Young Men
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The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.
Jeffrey Sachs / Economist
Running
Dramatic
Imf
Indonesia
Thailand
Intervened
Runs
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The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.
Stephen Kinzer / Author
Modern History
Farther
Intervened
Shores
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I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.
David Axelrod / Former Senior Advisor To The President Of The United States
Better Off
President
Thinking
Certainly
Collapsed
Intervened
Whose
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What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.
Peter Schiff / Author
Government
Capitalism
Gotten
Intervened
Quicker
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Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.
John Glenn / Former United States Senator
Medical
Son
World War Ii
Doctor
Intervened
Journals
Tried
World War
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I've always been fascinated by dreams - mine are so vivid. I went through a period in my 20s when I wrote down my dreams every morning. Then life intervened, and I stopped doing it.
Arianna Huffington / Author
Fascinated
Vivid
Period
Intervened
Mine
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The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.
Peter Capaldi / Actor
Cosmic
Only Time
Plans
Intervened
Something Else
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Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.
Jim Gerlach / U.s. Representative
British
Destruction
Hussein
Mass
Mass Destruction
Nations
Possessed
United Nations
United States
Weapons
French
Further
Germans
Intervened
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The Luke Cage you saw in Season One was a reluctant hero. He was trying to figure out if he wanted to be a hero in the first place. And then fate intervened and forced him to step up his game.
Cheo Hodari Coker / Screenwriter
Fate
Hero
Luke
Reluctant
Cage
Figure
Forced
Intervened
Step
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I started writing songs with my best friend Eden Rice when were in our early teens. We performed together at local coffee shops in suburban Atlanta as Kemp and Eden, until fate intervened and we were separated.
Kemp Muhl / Model
Best Friend
Atlanta
Coffee
Eden
Fate
Rice
Shops
Teens
Coffee Shops
Intervened
Performed
Separated
Suburban
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You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.
Tom A. Watson /
Broke
Fate
Hacking
Investigating
Scandal
Committee
Phone
Ended
Intervened
Minister
Quieter
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Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of extremism that exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Cradle
Ideology
Libya
Middle East
Weapons
Affairs
African
Domestic
Exports
Intervened
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In the 1960s, the public demanded seat belts in cars, but automakers balked. Not until government intervened did seat belts become standard equipment. Now, no one would consider buying a vehicle without this basic safety feature.
Eric Schneiderman / New York Attorney General
Belts
Buying
Equipment
Safety
Vehicle
Seat
Demanded
Feature
Intervened
Standard
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ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia in 2015, around the same time that Russia first intervened in the Syrian civil war.
Peter Bergen / Broadcaster
Civil War
Dictator
Russia
Surprise
War Time Government
Despises
Intervened
Syrian
Targeting
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The individuals who intervened in my life, transformed it, didn't do so in a vacuum. One was a manager of a children's home, a whole string of them were teachers. What they had in common was that they worked in successful institutions.
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis /
Transformed
Life Home Children
Intervened
String
Vacuum
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In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Blocked
Clinton
East
Middle East
Missiles
North Korea
President Clinton
Intervened
North
Recognize
Sending
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
Abigail Washburn / Singer
Circumstances
Divine
Intention
Miraculous
Music Industry
Comparative
Fold
Intervened
No Intention
Powers
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I don't know what it's like to be Cuban-American, but I know what it's like to have family under Communism and to get up early in the morning and send medical supplies and try to send food and try to send money and have it intervened, and them calling and crying on the phone.
Molly Qerim /
Medical
Calling
Communism
Supplies
Crying
Phone
Intervened
Send
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If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.
Katherine Harris / U.s. Congressperson
Court
Florida
Gore
Justice
Law
Mere
Standards
Supreme
Supreme Court
Al
Al Gore
Certified
Intervened
Procedural
Recount
Rewritten
Uniform
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