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So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
Chris Patten

Politics, Times, Values

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
Matt Blunt

Past, Political, Stand

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.
Gloria Naylor

Law, American, Congress

When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
Barry Hannah

God, Comedy, Earth

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.
William Cavendish

Work, Time, Strength

The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.
George Combe

End, Attention, Rest

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.
Marcus Allen

Everybody, Head, Shoulders

My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's ever said. At a young age, my brother and I understood that if you can make girls laugh, you can punch well above your weight class.
Seth Meyers

Age, Beautiful, Mother

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.
George G. Simpson

Family, Knows, Known

It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

True, Control, Few

The wise are above books.
Samuel Daniel

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
Samuel Daniel

Nature, Art, Law

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
Ann Brashares

Beautiful, Rich, Growing

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
Nancy Johnson

Law, High, President

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.
Ashton Eaton

Good, Challenge, Times

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
Alvin Dark

Faith, God, Fellow

We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.
Pat Roberts

Fight, Evil, Feet

I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.
Amy Schumer

Funny, Hard, Living

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
Frances Burney

Reality, Mean, Opinion

Many counties in Maryland are above the average unemployment rate for both Maryland and the United States. We need representation in Congress who will make creating jobs the No. 1 priority so the people of Maryland can get back to work.
Andrew P. Harris

Work, Both, Congress

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.
John Henry Carver

Two, Looking, Three

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
Carl Clinton Van Doren

Great, Power, Experience

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
Bernard Pivot

Country, Find, Speak

We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world.
Bernhard von Bulow

Freedom, Political, Win

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
James C. Maxwell

Greatest, May, Small

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
Hans Bender

Mind, Soul, Direction

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
Barney Oliver

Travel, Far, Might

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Barney Oliver

Great, Wise, Expect

In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.
William Dampier

Another, Road, Water

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
Emperor Sigismund

Grammar, Emperor, Roman

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