- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story... will tell them why they shouldn't.
- Emphasize
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're not from Puerto Rico, so you should say Puerto Rico like all the other people from the place that you come from.
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
- Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Clinton first appeared on the national stage back in 1992, the young wife of the Arkansas governor running for president, she kept her natural-brown hair off her face with a headband.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
When evidence emerged that Clinton was a devoted mother, Margaret Carlson writing in 'TIME' found her guilty of 'yuppie overdoting on her daughter.'
- Good Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the requirements of a good leader and a good man are similar, the requirements of a good leader and a good woman are mutually exclusive. A good leader must be tough, but a good woman must not be. A good woman must be self-deprecating, but a good leader must not be.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sister is the one person you can call in the middle of the night when you can't sleep or the one who doesn't want to hear about your problems unless you're ready to do something about them. She's the one who is there when you need her or the one whose absence when you need her hurts the most.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.
- Nov 07, 2020
A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.
- Compromised
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- Nov 07, 2020
When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?
- Debt Ceiling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The death of compromise has become a threat to our nation as we confront crucial issues such as the debt ceiling and that most basic of legislative responsibilities: a federal budget. At stake is the very meaning of what had once seemed unshakable: 'the full faith and credit' of the U.S. government.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020