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America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.
Mike Ferguson

Health, Best, Medical

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.
W. Averell Harriman

Thought, Before, Stop

I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.
Jennifer Carpenter

Hate, Might, Yes

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.
William Henry Ashley

Snow, Country, Leave

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.
John Woolman

Alone, Heart, Help

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
Bill Ayers

Working, System, Peaceful

Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.
Gray Davis

Power, Trying, Put

Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.
Chantal Kreviazuk

Sleep, Night, Happen

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
Joe Dante

Movies, Made, Film

In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.
Miranda Leek

Good, Beautiful, Pretty

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.
Aravind Adiga

Great, Between, Economic

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
Marguerite Gardiner

Time, Doubt, Find

You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.
Paul Graham

Business, Model, Customers

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.
Roger Mahony

Death, Church, System

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Frederick William Robertson

Men, Hopes, Trial

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.
Townsend Harris

War, Long, Either

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
Victoria Woodhull

Heart, Human, Child

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
Jacky Ickx

Time, Small, Place

My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.
Will Arnett

Getting, Film, Actually

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.
Graham Nelson

Care, Thought, Anyone

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.
Stephen Greenblatt

Love, Truth, Care

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.
Franz Boas

Parents, Through, Dogma

For each book, the time is also broken up.
George Stephen

It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.
Rosario Dawson

Funny, Time, Dating

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.
Kelly Miller

Forward, Start, Paris

Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.
David F. Houston

May, After, Old

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
James Longstreet

Battle, Victory, Few

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
James Longstreet

Enemy, Battle, Off

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.
James Longstreet

Made, Effort, Step

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
Fanny Crosby

Once, Chords, Vibrate

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