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You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

Tom Harkin

Hero, Community, Together

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For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.

Barney Frank

College, Expression, President

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The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.

Michael Dukakis

Congratulations, Long, People

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A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.

Paul Simon

Jobs, Educational, Understanding

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The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

Tao Lin

Feelings, Disbelief, Amount

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Every time I started a business and the people told me I was an idiot, I ended up making a lot of money. Si Redd used to say me, "Boy, you gotta be where they ain't." What that means is that you find areas of low competition because high competition means lower margins, and lower margins mean less profit. So we were always looking for places where we can be unique. If the thinking is out-of-the-box, people may not understand because they have not seen it before... Therefore you are an idiot.

Bob Davids

Mean, Boys, Unique

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The size of your key ring is the size of your headaches. Si Redd once told me, "Every time you buy something you sell a piece of yourself." Why? Because you have to maintain it, to insure it, to worry about it. So the more you buy, the more you sell a piece of yourself and pretty soon you get so thin you can't do anything. So get rid of all those things and get back to the basics. Everybody has his own basics: it's what he enjoys. Si Redd told me I would "arrive" when I got down to one key. Still working on that!

Bob Davids

Keys, Worry, Pieces

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The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or food-it's leadership. Why is it such a scarce resource? Because egos get involved. Most people in top positions think they are better than somebody else, think they need something better than somebody else. It's economic assets, it's status, it's all those other things that prevent the people at the top from subordinating themselves totally to the people they lead. It is not socialism. Leaders get paid a lot more than those they lead, they get paid for their knowledge and skill...but they are no better as a person.

Bob Davids

Thinking, Skills, Oil

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It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.

Mitch McConnell

New Day, President, Veto

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There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who suffer injustice and inequality.

Mel White

Suffering, Injustice, Salvation

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In my lowest moments, when I genuinely longed for death, I knew that Jesus would walk with me through that valley as well.

Mel White

Jesus, Valleys, Moments

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The words 'God is love' conclude a biblical warning, not a warm and fuzzy slogan. 'He who doesn't love [his neighbor] doesn't love God, for God is love.'

Mel White

Biblical, Warning, Fuzzy

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I am convinced that Christian fundamentalism is a far greater threat to this country than Muslim terrorists could ever be.

Mel White

Christian, Country, Muslim Terrorists

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Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry.

Mel White

Christian, Commitment, Traps

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Since the waiting time required during the rendering process has been dramatically shorter in the last 10 years, I think that CGI animation has finally become practical. It is a fact that I processed the Steamboy work based on the assumption that the machine spec would be higher. In that context, young 3D animators have also gotten more skillful in recent years. But what I didn't expect is that the skills of traditional 2D animators have become worse, and notable young animators have not come out to the scene. This is a big issue for the industry.

Katsuhiro Otomo

Thinking, Waiting, Assumption

Source: www.avclub.com

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With Republicans in control of the Senate for the first time since Barack Obama took office, the president may find it harder to appoint left-wing lawyers to judgeships. Whether he compromises on some of his nominees, including any to the Supreme Court, may depend on the willingness of the new Republican majority to engage the president on judicial philosophy.

Terry Eastland

Philosophy, Wings, Office

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This issue of expanding the reach of international criminal law by reliance on the use of Universal Jurisdiction by domestic courts needs to be balanced against the injustice of according impunity to those with strong geopolitical backing. It is notable that several western European countries backtracked on UJ after threats of retaliatory moves by the United States and Israel. There is no doubt that the domain of UJ is a geopolitical battleground.

Richard A. Falk

Country, Strong, Moving

Source: www.counterpunch.org

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As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia, Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House was involved.

Carol D. Leonnig

Military, Two, White

"Aides knew of possible White House link to Cartagena, Colombia, prostitution scandal". Article by Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura, www.washingtonpost.com. October 8, 2014.

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She then played a short 5-second clip of Gruber, saying the following, that a part of the Obamacare passed because 'the American people are too stupid to understand the difference.'

Alexander Viets Griswold

Stupid, Obamacare, Differences

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Kelly reported, 'more video has surfaced showing this was not the first time Mr. Gruber called the American people stupid in an 'off-the-cuff' remark. In this next clip from also last year, Mr. Gruber explains how Democrats played with the language of the Obamacare law so that it achieved their goals, by again, fooling the stupid public.'

Alexander Viets Griswold

Stupid, Obamacare, Years

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Fox News' Megyn Kelly was the first to air the video on her program, 'The Kelly File.'

Alexander Viets Griswold

Air, Foxes, Video

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Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act's drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law.

Alexander Viets Griswold

Stupid, Law, Obamacare

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I hear all the time that 'unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it.' When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth - the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real - then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't 'feeling' something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.

Jim Clifton

Jobs, Wall, Real

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Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's middle class.

Jim Clifton

Jobs, Years, Class

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And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity - it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.

Jim Clifton

Dream, Country, Jobs

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