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You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.
Mike Pence

Health, Government, Care

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
Arabella Weir

Bad, Despotism, Cracked

Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in.
Matt Damon

Change, Down, Everybody

I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one.
John Elway

Lost, Before, Three

In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.
Eric Ries

Life, Crisis, Problem

I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.
Cathy Freeman

Life, Good, Made

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
Grover Cleveland

After, Almost, Existence

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.
Kristen Bell

Girl, Enough, Pretty

I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach.
Kristen Bell

Time, Amazing, Heart

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.
Joshua Foer

Time, Today, Once

Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.
Joshua Foer

Whole, Used, Memory

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.
Lois Capps

Future, Country, Why

Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk that they may strike again grows every day.
Bob Ney

Sex, Moving, May

I remember an interview so terrible with CNN's Jon Klein, I nearly blurted out, 'Forget it, I am a loser!' But I didn't need to say it. My face and posture did.
Mika Brzezinski

Forget, Remember, Loser

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
Natan Sharansky

Peace, Fear, Society

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Good, Mistrust, Impulses

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
K. D. Lang

Past, Falling, Bars

Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment.
Fred Upton

Time, Power, Nation

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
Charles Dudley Warner

Strong, Opinion, Public

And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.
James Levine

Work, Time, Pretty

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
Bob Riley

Education, Money, Important

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
Vinton Cerf

Special, Another, Public

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.
Martin Van Buren

Past, Law, Military

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.
Robert Casey

Women, Children, Same

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Time, Great, War

It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.
Anthony Holden

Positive, Him, Problem

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.
Derek Jacobi

Night, Working, Off

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
Meghan O'Rourke

Personal, Grief, Universal

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.
Kate Smith

Music, Words, While

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Justice, Late, Train

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