Nelson Mandela

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

South African Statesman

Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Dutch Painter

Joe Biden

There's only one person in this race who will be there, who's always been there for you, and that's Hillary Clinton's life story.

American President

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Indian Leader

Winston Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

British Statesman

Napoleon Bonaparte

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

French Statesman

Ernest Hemingway

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

American Novelist

Bill Gates

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

American Businessman

Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

German Physicist

Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

French Author

Used when you want to show you are sorry about something.

Expressing Apology

Learn fixed expressions where 'for' explains reasons.

Common Phrases

Use 'for' with a length of time to express how long something lasts.

Time Duration

Avoid adding prepositions after 'for' when expressing time periods.

No Pre-Insertion

Use 'for' to connect an action or object to its intended purpose.

Goal-Oriented

Connect 'for' with verbs to show the action's intention.

Action Link

Use 'for' to clearly state your support in discussions.

Opinion Clarity

Show that you favor or choose something with 'for'.

Expressing Favor

Indicate that someone or something is taking another's place.

Replacement Notion

Use 'for' when doing something to help someone else.

Benevolent Actions

Use 'for' to associate someone with a particular characteristic.

Identity Traits

Link 'for' to skills that set someone or something apart.

Specialized Skills

Point out the destination or end point of a movement.

Direction Indication

Use 'for' in the context of travel to specify a destination.

Travel Context

 to get information from the public and get information out to them. We have satellite maps where we can see where people are and where they're moving. We have advances in biology that should dramatically change the turnaround time to look at a pathogen and be able to make drugs and vaccines that fit for that pathogen. So we can have tools,

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 Deeper into the swamp lies the reason for all this fishing.

The Dark Side of...

 this courageous explorer has paved the way for the others

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