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Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power to change the very fabric of our civilisation.

~Ephraim Mirvis

Topics: Become Change Charged Civilisation Deployed Difference Effectively Fabric Inference Make Our Over Power Time Very Words World

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What we mean by an outcome will naturally depend on the context. Thus, for a government charged with delivering public goods, an outcome will consist of the quantities provided of such goods as intercity highways, national defense and security, environmental protection, and public education together with the arrangements by which they are financed.

~Eric Maskin

Topics: Arrangements Charged Consist Context Defense Delivering Depend Education Environmental Environmental Protection Financed Goods Government Highways Mean National National Defense Naturally Outcome Protection Provided Public Public Education Quantities Security Thus Together Which Will

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Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. Unable to pay for bail, they languish in Rikers Island or other jails while they await trial, regardless of guilt.

~Eric Schneiderman

Topics: Bail Charged Find Guilt Island Jails Many New New Yorkers Once Other Our Pay Poor Regardless System Themselves Too Trapped Trial Unable Unjust While

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Charged Degree Great Great Literature Language Literature Meaning Possible Simply Utmost

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It's important to understand you can't remove the historical context of racially charged stereotypes or slurs as much as we like to pretend that we can.

~Franchesca Ramsey

Topics: Charged Context Historical Important Like Much Pretend Remove Stereotypes Understand You

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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.

~Gary Johnson

Topics: Act Allowing Arrest Being Charged Citizens Defense Me National National Defense Never Patriot Patriot Act Signed Without Would You

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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

~Gavyn Davies

Topics: Accept Am Authority British Chairman Charged Happens Life Minister Organisation Prime Prime Minister Public Public Life Resignation Responsibility Should Tender Therefore Those Today Top Tradition Writing I Am Bbc

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From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of life; and the phrase by which we name his singularity, the poetic temperament, denotes the primacy of that passion in his blood with which the frame of other men is less richly charged.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: About Altar Beginning Blood Charged Dance Days Frame God Goethe His Hugo Leader Less Life Men Name Other Passion Phrase Poet Poetic Rude Singularity Temperament Victor Which

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The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial.

~George Takei

Topics: Central Challenge Charged Charges Court Crime Due Got Justice Law Our Pillar Process System Then Those Trial You

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Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Admitted Armstrong Athletes Barred Charged Great Joined Legion Lost Sins Suspected Were Who

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