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Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.
Lynne Cheney
People
Father
Long
Young
Settled
Mormon
Had
Well
Were
After
Utah
You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.'
Lynne Cheney
You
People
Mother
Rule
Had
Know
Just
Which
I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
Magnus Carlsen
Winter
Will
Long
Enjoy
Summer
Months
Like
Hiking
Most
End
Snow
Skiing
Evenings
I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
Magnus Carlsen
Me
Important
Club
Tool
Bit
About
Guy
Online
Computer
Never
Computers
Mainly
Until
Terms
Obviously
Least
Important Tool
Chess
Been
Much
Use
Games
Using
Preparing
Now
Actually
Playing
I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
Magnus Carlsen
Me
More
Beat
Computers
Look
Opponents
Interesting
Much
Humans
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
Magnus Carlsen
Happy
Thinking
Else
How
Doing
Chess
Going
Anything
Anything Else
Really
Now
Right
Things
Career
I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.
Magnus Carlsen
Age
People
School
Important
Understanding
Own
Enough
About
Abroad
Attend
Schools
Course
Go
Were
Chess
Interact
Where
Your
Lucky
Play
Socially
Needed
Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
Magnus Carlsen
Satisfied
Else
Find
Something
Something Else
Only
Talent
Know
Chess
Maybe
The Only Thing
Thing
My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.
Magnus Carlsen
Best
Norway
Former
Coach
Used
Player
Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.
Magnus Carlsen
Fashion
Still
Unfortunately
Expert
I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.
Maria Monk
Hell
Our
Biting
Shall
Had
Remembered
Devils
Also
Go
Been
Go To Hell
Sins
Often
Us
Many
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
Maria Monk
Religion
Me
Knowledge
Ignorance
Experience
Own
Indecision
Would
All-Around
Insisted
Give
Something
My Own
Only
Advance
Knew
True
Soon
Like
True Knowledge
Around
Felt
Proved
Place
Doubts
Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
Maria Monk
Before
Rich
Took
Chapel
Dress
About
Had
Veil
Perhaps
Altar
Occasions
Clothed
Convent
Which
Placed
Far
Ceremony
View
Used
Forty
Who
Spectators
Belonging
Number
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
Maria Monk
Life
Time
Marriage
My Life
Parents
Before
Took
Montreal
Spent
City
Some
Both
Had
Most
Were
Been
Scotland
Canada
Place
Which
Lower
Resident
On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.
Maria Monk
Day
Church
Others
Extremely
Confirmed
Therefore
Suffered
Conscience
Number
Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.
Maria Monk
Too
Others
Francis
Though
Entertain
Would
Had
Cruel
Most
Occasionally
Saint
Been
Privately
Warned
Doubts
Express
She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!
Maria Monk
Me
Sometimes
Feelings
Other
Gave
Immediately
Dreadful
Scarcely
Born
Excited
Piece
She
Another
Always
Were
Infants
Convent
Information
Baptized
Which
Less
Strangled
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
Maria Monk
Ignorance
Made
Secrecy
Saw
Attempt
Taken
Know
Were
Subject
Any
Children
Convent
Far
Pains
Keep
Preserve
Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.
Maria Monk
Water
Blessed
Our
Ourselves
Crossed
Fingers
Up
Order
Door
Holy
Standing
Usual
Near
Two
The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.
Maria Monk
Business
Important
Wax
Another
Branch
Candles
Manufacture
The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little.
Maria Monk
Mind
Only
Recreation
Allowed
However
Little
We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God.
Maria Monk
God
Remember
Own
Our
Ourselves
Must
Constantly
Never
Look
Devoted
Were
Repeated
Hearing
Irrevocably
Again
At the end of the day, my natural habitat is in a car and I am happiest in that environment.
Maria de Villota
Day
Natural
End Of The Day
Car
Habitat
Environment
Am
End
Happiest
I have motorsport in my DNA and there's no way I can stay away from that world.
Maria de Villota
World
Way
Stay
Away
I felt deeply loved, highly respected by my colleagues and everybody in the world of motorsport.
Maria de Villota
World
Everybody
Respected
Colleagues
Highly
Felt
Loved
Deeply
Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.
Marina Oswald
Dark
Sometimes
Think
Lee
Wonder
Begin
Started
Violence
Night
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