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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
Robert Anton Wilson
Once
Destroy
Something
Longer
Understandable
Becomes
Repeat
Need
The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.
Robert Baden-Powell
Work
Best
Game
Kind
More
Like
Look
Becomes
Happiest
Workers
Harder
Play
Enjoyable
To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.
Robert Baden-Powell
Religion
Man
Book
Practice
Tries
Disappointing
Soon
Underlying
Him
Reads
Becomes
Boy
Scouting
Lack
Apparent
Who
Basic
There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.
Robert Cailliau
Time
Calm
Community
Down
Chaos
Meltdown
System
Would
Would-Be
Total
Net
Civilized
Catastrophe
Alternative
Calm Down
Becomes
May
Middle
Now
Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.
Robert Dallek
Congress
Voice
Becomes
Opposition
Public
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
Robert Farrar Capon
Own
Becomes
Shock
Unemployment
Pathology
Right
I don't know; the gravity of playing football - you can't lose the comparison of other stuff. If you do, and football is the only thing, it becomes too serious.
Robert Green
You
Lose
Too
Other
Only
Football
Stuff
Know
Becomes
The Only Thing
Serious
Comparison
Thing
Gravity
Playing
It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.
Robert Hamer
You
People
Made
Picture
Classic
Only
Make
Within
Becomes
However
Years
Impression
Get
Which
Flattering
Ever
It's a different world because of the Internet and bloggers. Now, every editor is concerned about speed because every minute counts. Speed is more important than content. Whoever gets a review out first becomes the authority.
Robert Hilburn
World
Internet
First
Important
Every
Speed
Out
Minute
About
More
Counts
Concerned
Content
Because
Becomes
Editor
Bloggers
Review
Than
Authority
Gets
Different
Whoever
Now
Different World
Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the lives of his or her characters.
Robert J. Sawyer
Writing
Living
Characters
Someone
He
He Or She
Also
She
Reader
Becomes
His
Author
Just
Lives
Her
The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing is amply rewarded by public attention.
Robert J. Shiller
Politics
Science
Problem
Political
Focus
Once
Economic
Economic Policy
Attention
Involved
Policy
Becomes
Rewarded
Public
Much
Play
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Man
Selfish
Marriage
Fatty
Moral
Degeneration
Becomes
His
Being
Slack
What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!
Robert Palmer
Will
Somebody
Invent
Victim
Bizarre
Some
Net
Remark
Particularly
Make
Sort
Although
Printed
Becomes
Up
Currency
Gets
Often
Ends
Happens
Quote
Them
Thing
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
Robert Rauschenberg
Looking
Painting
Without
Becomes
Itself
Very
Familiar
Quickly
Turned
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
Robert Shea
Creativity
Vision
Important
More
More And More
Computer
Instance
Idealism
Prosperous
Trace
Industry
Sheer
Becomes
Romance
Decline
Fun
Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
Robert Sheckley
Life
You
Complicated
Walk
Once
Find
Able
More
Becomes
Were
Far
Fast
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.
Robert Smithson
Language
Monumental
Mutations
Thus
Advertising
Because
Becomes
I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.
Robert Trujillo
Time
Great
You
Song
Try
Nurturing
Long
Say
Consolidate
Great Ideas
Minutes
Put
Takes
Ideas
Call
Becomes
Eight
Happens
Process
Them
Then
Your
Many
Elimination
If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
Roberto Cavalli
Music
Somebody
Some
Something
Something Special
Because
Becomes
Famous
Movie
Reason
Special
White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.
Robin DiAngelo
Stress
White
Defensive
State
Intolerable
Range
Minimum
Becomes
Moves
Which
Racial
Even
Amount
Fragility
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
Robin G. Collingwood
Life
Man
Science
Master
Given
He
Learned
Becomes
His
Ceases
Beginner
Any
Going
Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.
Robin Ince
You
World
Looking
Once
More
Rationally
Exciting
Becomes
Much
Start
Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.
Robin S. Sharma
Success
You
People
Listening
Brilliant
Care
Become
Define
About
Part
Feel
Becomes
How
Begin
Them
Your
Thing
Here
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
Rod Serling
People
Some People
Others
Possess
Possessed
Some
Talent
Becomes
Curse
Happens
Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.
Roger Mudd
Privacy
Believe
More
More And More
Smaller
Powerful
Journalists
Most
Becomes
Person
Gets
Now
Zone
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.
Roman Jakobson
Language
Value
Sign
Poetic
Factor
Takes
Sort
Becomes
Sound
Autonomous
Which
Creates
Actual
Symbolism
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