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As a former EPA administrator under a Republican president, I recognize that it is easy to hate regulations in general. After all, regulatory action causes people to spend money or change behavior, often to solve problems they do not believe exist.

~Christine Todd Whitman

Topics: Action Administrator After Behavior Believe Causes Change Easy Exist Former General Hate Money Often People President Problems Recognize Regulations Regulatory Republican Solve Spend

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As a former governor, I am familiar with the challenge of balancing the immediate electricity and heating needs of our citizens with the long-term priority of ensuring that power comes from a diverse mix of energy sources that allows us flexibility as we fight the effects of climate change.

~Christine Todd Whitman

Topics: Am Balancing Challenge Change Citizens Climate Climate Change Diverse Effects Electricity Energy Energy Sources Ensuring Familiar Fight Flexibility Former Governor Heating Immediate Long-Term Mix Needs Our Power Priority Sources Us I Am

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As the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and former governor of New Jersey, I have witnessed the impact of climate change firsthand.

~Christine Todd Whitman

Topics: Administrator Agency Change Climate Climate Change Environmental Environmental Protection Firsthand Former Governor Impact Jersey New New Jersey Protection Witnessed

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Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Able About Approaches Crime Detailed Former Grim Handle Ideas Joyous Knowing Latter Masters More Never Once Past Police Realistically Set Speaking Theatre Two Which Would

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I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations.

~Christopher Lee

Topics: Any Attached Discuss Forbidden Former From Time To Time Future Operations Present Specific Time

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The Monarch is the Big Bad to this one family of former adventurers, but we've always known there is a bureaucracy of villains that is a workman-like aspect to them.

~Christopher Mcculloch

Topics: Always Aspect Bad Big Bureaucracy Family Former Known Monarch Them Villains

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My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found.

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: Along Back Became Canada Drawing Executive Experience Former Found Foundation Helped Her Homeland Independent Late Lawyer Legal Mother Moved Officer Other Parents Republics Russia Served She Soviet States Thirteen Ukraine Ukrainian 1990S

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I like Glover Teixeira; he's a former training partner.

~Chuck Liddell

Topics: Former He Like Partner Training

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As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life.

~Chuck Norris

Topics: Air Air Force America Character Class Discipline Experience First First Class Force Former Important Important Part Life Like Many Me Military My Life Part Played Sense Served States Throughout United United States Veterans

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In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Accounts Away Came Creative Former Government Hurting Interview Lot Many Masters Paid People Read Realizing Slave Slaves Spent Surprisingly Thinking Those Time Up Ways Were Who Writers I Came 1930S

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