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A well-educated populace is the backbone of our middle-class.
Mark Pocan / United States Representative
Well Educated
Populace
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Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.
Phylicia Rashad / Actress
Democracy
Educated
Cannot
Itself
Without
Populace
Sustain
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Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.
Princess Nokia /
Alternative
Community Culture Black
Populace
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What we need more than anything else is an informed populace. I believe people want to be informed.
Dave Rubin /
Believe People I Believe
Informed
More Than Anything
Populace
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Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
Gerald F. Lieberman /
Participating
Believing
Delude
Held
Populace
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
Livy / Historian
Breeze
Sea
Sea Breeze
Wind
Itself
Motionless
Populace
Stirred
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Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
John Mcafee / Computer Programmer
Governments
Populace
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The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.
Carrie Brownstein / Musician
Generalization
Self Conscious
Sensitive
Fairly
Northwest
Populace
Slightly
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
Edmund White / Novelist
Sympathy
Aids
Privileged
Gays
Populace
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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti / Poet
Consciousness
Way
World
Change World Change The World
General
Change The World
Change World Way
Poets
Populace
Raise
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No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.
Andy Samberg / Actor
Growing
Internet
Matter
Represent
Demographic
Populace
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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / Philosopher
Deceptive
Hype
Intention
Obscure
Unreliable
Whole
Electoral
Nothing Human More
Intentions
Populace
System
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
James Monroe / 5Th U.s. President
Exercise
Ignorant
Incapable
People
Sovereignty
Corrupt
Degenerate
Exercising
Populace
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No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
Francis Parker Yockey / Philosopher
Truth
America
Deceived
People
Youth
Forces
Populace
Section
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
F. Murray Abraham / Actor
Desire
Intellect
People
Want
Power Me People
Hugely
Implies
Populace
Separates
Superior
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There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote on it.
Zephyr Teachout / Law Professor
Candidates
Myth
Cares
Populace
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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Matthew Arnold / Poet
America
Barbarians
Justice
Our Society
Nearly
Populace
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Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.
Rick Perlstein / Historian
Frightened
Polling
Retribution
Authorities
Depressed
Populace
Trusts
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
Edna St. Vincent Millay / Poet
Book
Good Book
Hurt
Pants
Writing
Appears
Good Bad Nothing
Populace
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I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.
Sarah Jessica Parker / Actress
Kids
Grocery Shopping
School
Shopping
Subway
Waiting
Grocery
Populace
Segment
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Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.
Barry Ritholtz / Author
Celebration
Elsewhere
Distressed
Economically
Footage
Large Percentage
Percentage
Populace
Reminder
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken / Journalist
Freedom
Government
Politics
Aim
Democracies Have
Endless
Imaginary
Safety
Series
Whole
Them
Hence
Led
Menacing
Populace
Practical
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Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Pbs
Series
Survivor
Twice
Factor
Nova
Populace
Ratings
Tube
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As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
William Greider / Journalist
Bloody
Finest
Humiliation
Republic
Cleansed
Designed
Rituals
Populace
Reassure
Restored
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If aliens are really hanging out in our 'hood, it's hard to imagine any other fact more worthy of study. If not, then why does such a large fraction of the populace insist on believing they're here?
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Hood
Worthy
Alien
Believing
Fraction
Hanging
Insist
Populace
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The state exists to serve and protect every citizen, regardless of colour, creed, race or religion - and the welfare state should exist to and protect the populace in the same non-discriminatory and universal manner.
Mehdi Hasan /
Religion
Colour
Protect
Race
Welfare
Welfare State
Same
Citizen
Exist
Creed
Exists
Manner
Populace
Regardless
Serve
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'Hunger Games' is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society. It's more similar to China than America, but it's also similar to Nazi Germany and anywhere where the populace gets semi-brainwashed into serving the agenda of a very few.
Elizabeth Banks / Actress
China
Games
Germany
Hunger
Serving
Anywhere
Gets
Hunger Games
Populace
Similar
Tale
Totalitarian
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The radicalized populace in liberal havens like California and New York seek to impose their socialist utopian ideology on those law-abiding, everyday Americans who live in what elite, coastal liberals derisively refer to as 'flyover country.'
Kayleigh Mcenany /
Coastal
Ideology
Utopian
Elite
Haven
Impose
Law-Abiding
Liberals
Populace
Refer
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Dan Rather pulling on a sweater and thereby winning a whole new chunk of the populace: That's television. President Reagan's press conferences: That's television. Keith Jackson is television. So are Kermit the Frog, instant replay, and the Fiesta Bowl.
Frank Deford / Sportswriter
Conferences
Instant
President
Pulling
Replay
Television
Winning
Bowl
Chunk
Dan
Dan Rather
Frog
Jackson
Populace
Rather
Sweater
Thereby
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Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
Ben Carson /
Advantage
Feels
Media
Party
Political
Responsibility
Uninformed
Understand
Quite
Arm
Works
Extremely
Particularly
Frankly
Having
Political Party
Populace
Quite Frankly
Take Advantage
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In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.
David Strathairn / Actor
Bedrock
Constitutional Rights
Inspire
Constitutional
Drawn
Essential
George
Populace
Presents
Vital
Whoever
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The politician and the government expert receive their revenues, not from service voluntarily purchased on the market, but from a compulsory levy on the populace. These officials, therefore, wholly lack the pecuniary incentive to care about serving the public properly and competently.
Murray Rothbard / Economist
Compulsory
Officials
Serving
Incentive
Populace
Properly
Purchased
Receive
Revenues
Voluntarily
Wholly
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Gothenburg is the Baltimore or Liverpool or Marseille of Sweden - plagued by the death of wharfs and other industries, and with complex segregation of the populace from southern Europe, which once brought in a labor force that suddenly found itself living in remote projects without jobs.
Johan Renck / Director
Jobs
Europe
Force
Labor
Liverpool
Projects
Segregation
Southern
Sweden
Brought
Complex
Industries
Populace
Remote
Suddenly
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
Adam Johnson / Novelist
Censored
Character
Human Actions
Longing
Revealing
Self
Spontaneity
Thinking
Whispering
Actions
Essential
Hidden
Lest
Populace
Punished
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Veganism is a point of contention all year round. So much so that many vegans cut themselves off from the rest of society, huddling together for warmth and smugness, and using online forums to vent their disgust at the morally corrupt dairy- and meat-eating savages who make up most of the populace.
Romesh Ranganathan /
Contention
Dairy
Savages
Warmth
All Year
Corrupt
Disgust
Forum
Round
Make Up
Populace
Vent
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To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Admitting
Appeals
Argument
Critics
Elitist
Food Stamps
Harvard
Lucky
Racism
Stamps
Obama
Certainly
Involves
Populace
Season
Seem
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Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified aerial phenomena. Surveys show that roughly one-third of the populace believes that at least some of this sky show is due to extraterrestrial spacecraft, here to probe our airspace and, when that proves boring, our bodies.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Space
Extraterrestrial
Sky
Spacecraft
Surveys
Aerial
Believes
Bodies
Due
Each Year
Phenomena
Least
Probe
One-Third
Populace
Proves
Reported
Roughly
Thousands
Unidentified
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What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Acknowledge
Hands
Mean
Political
Addressing
Enforced
Expense
Impose
Populace
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We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
Ramez Naam / Manager
Best
Communication
Freedom
Good
Economic
Economic Growth
Good Governance
Governance
Growth
Online
Politician
Time Good Freedom
Time Best Good
Time Best Freedom
Go
Administrator
Seen
Those
Corrupt
Best Time Good
Public
Countries
Ending
Say
Over
Official
Populace
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Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.
Dick Cavett / Host
Fate
Loss
Missing
Offense
Parking
Thinking
Human Being
Imaginable
Limb
Populace
Segment
Whom
Worse
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