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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

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PowerWordsPeopleEnergyHurtYou

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.

Jesse Jackson

SupportSucceedWillAttemptAny

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

John Bruton

CountryOthersRightAskingUpgrade

I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.

Andrea Hirata

BeautyBeautifulMeSceneryIsland

I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.

John Oates

MusicLearnPlayWaySameAlways

Every individual should have both the right to join a union and the right to not join a union should they so choose. It's about basic human freedom.

Michael Baumgartner

FreedomChooseHumanRightUnion

There's a blockbuster side to Knopf, whether it's P. D. James or John le Carre or our best-selling books. We try to sell our writers as aggressively as those houses regarded as commercial with a capital C.

Sonny Mehta

TrySideCapitalSellBooksHouses

In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance.

Steven Burd

HealthExperienceQualityFinance

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

Mike Tyson

DressMaskClothesGoSometimesOut

If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.

Luis Suarez

AloneMeSpeakLanguageYouTen

Coming up in the School of Aaron Sorkin Delivery of Fast-Paced Dialogue and Hyper-Articulateness prepared me well for Shondaland, where there are many of the same factors at play.

Joshua Malina

SchoolMePlaySameUpDelivery

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

Bob Beauprez

HopePeopleSufferingEndHolocaust

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

Britt Ekland

FatherHairDownUpWearEven

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