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I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
Bob Dylan
Too
Dined
Kings
Wings
Never
Been
Impressed
Offered
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
Carter G. Woodson
Education
Good
Needs
People
Others
Enslaved
Those
Out
Has-Been
Weaker
More
Because
Does
However
Been
Oppressed
Than
Modern
Modern Education
So-Called
Conformity
Worked
Much
Who
Defects
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
You
Confusion
Will
Apprehend
Machine
Rightly
Out
Kind
Able
Could
Put
Wrong
Come
Ideas
Occasions
Am
Answers
Pray
Been
Question
Provoke
Asked
Figures
Right
Two
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens
Life
Myself
Great
Heart
Whatever
Earnest
Aims
Thoroughly
All My Heart
Tried
Small
Well
Devoted
Always
Been
The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme.
Charles Krauthammer
Political
College
Thinking
Back
Extreme
Paper
One Thing
Abhorrence
Always
Editor
Been
Goes
Political Thinking
The One Thing
Center
Thing
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
Charles Stanley
God
Good
Matter
Every
Trial
Significant
See
Over
How
Test
Been
Heartache
Turn
Turned
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.
Chester Bennington
Life
Music
Myself
Me
Speak
Negative
My Life
Pain
Kind
Able
Through
Throughout
Vent
Been
Tap
Being
Happen
Things
Numbing
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
Christopher Hitchens
Time
Light
Denial
Way
Finding
Some
One-Way
Gives
Both
Suppose
Knowingly
Been
Often
Candle
Ends
Burning
Lovely
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Clarence Darrow
Hell
Would
More
Had
Misunderstood
Understood
Been
Lot
Being
Being Misunderstood
Suffered
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco Chanel
Women
World
Strong
Mother
Men
Longing
Down
Seeking
Put
Heads
Heads Down
Always
Pillow
Been
Infants
Little
Them
Held
Who
When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in bloom; you're like, 'Oh, I just want to smell the flowers and play among the flowers all day.' That's what I'm doing. I'm playing among the flowers.
Colman Domingo
Day
You
Garden
Smell
Finally
All Day
Exactly
Exactly What
Seeds
Like
Doing
Been
Bloom
Oh
Just
Want
Tiring
Full
Planting
Play
Among
Playing
Flowers
If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they've been to Mars, you know? They've been all these places, but they're just now starting to come into your living room. Your living room is the final frontier for robots.
Cynthia Breazeal
Today
You
Field
Living
Final
Say
Mars
Come
Know
Look
Robotics
Robots
Oceans
Been
Just
Frontier
Places
Room
Your
Now
Deepest
Living Room
Starting
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Daniel Webster
Liberty
Power
Has-Been
Executive
Executive Power
Contest
Been
Ages
Rescue
Grasp
Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.
David Goggins
Life
Success
Time
You
Negative
Feeling
Odds
Down
Think
Bypass
Mindset
Those
Weak
Out
Give
Through
Beat
Lift
Remembering
Overcame
Loop
How
Been
Brain
Tasted
Impulses
Low
Your
Help
Even
Now
Right
Strengthened
Two
Guarantee
As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.
David Mixner
Life
Nature
Spiritual
Me
Healing
World
Animals
Farm
Back
Way
Cities
Slower
Spiritual Person
More
Rational
Adult
Adult Life
Adventure
Self-Discovery
Always
Were
Been
Friends
Forests
Than
Person
Going
Childhood
Moved
Where
Pace
Place
Places
Fields
Companions
Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.
Deborah Wiles
Art
Alone
Together
Book
Better
Walls
Picture
Way
Say
Those
Drawing
Kids
Ancient
Telling
Find
Visuals
About
Something
Perfect
Onto
Picture Book
Pictures
Like
Been
Cave
Text
Grab
Stories
Story
Centuries
Create
Stand
Graphic
Who
Even
They Say
Elements
Need
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthur
Home
Evil
Power
Blindly
Rally
Monstrous
Has-Been
Some
Terrible
Always
Foreign
Been
Up
Did
Going
Behind
Us
Smoot and Hawley ginned up The Tariff Act of 1930 to get America back to work after the Stock Market Crash of '29. Instead, it destroyed trade so effectively that by 1932, American exports to Europe were just a third of what they had been in 1929. World trade fell two-thirds as other nations retaliated. Jobs evaporated.
Elaine Chao
Work
World
Other
Back
Market
Market Crash
Destroyed
Jobs
Had
Instead
Fell
Trade
Were
Been
Effectively
Up
Stock
Stock Market
Tariff
America
Get
American
Just
Nations
After
Crash
Act
Europe
Exports
World Trade
Third
Two-Thirds
Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.
Ellen G. White
Will
Seen
Met
Discouraged
Disposition
Aid
Others
Favor
Through
Disappointed
Leaning
Always
Been
Waited
Yield
Expect
Expectations
Expecting
Same
Children
Them
Whole
Helpless
Lives
Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
Epicurus
Wisdom
Time
Good
Age
Good Things
Grace
Fear
Old
No Fear
Young
Ought
Alike
Latter
Has-Been
Seek
Both
He
Over
Come
Him
Because
Been
Same
May
Same Time
Order
Which
While
Former
Things
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco
Death
Fear
Sadness
Political
Vice Versa
Pain
Living
Society
Our
System
Has-Been
Able
Abolish
Absolute
Deliver
Versa
Been
Condition
Political System
Human
Vice
Human Condition
Social
Us
Thirst
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Spiritual
Has-Been
Follows
Joined
Misunderstood
Been
Form
Should
Union
Function
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
Gael Garcia Bernal
Democracy
Change
Election
Think
Horrendous
Having
Trivial
Dirty
Fooled
Disappointing
Most
Because
Been
Lot
Taught
Being
Elections
Aspect
Mundane
Things
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
George Will
People
Long
Parents
Advice
Approximately
Lighten
Perhaps
Been
Up
Children
Raising
Raising Children
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
Gever Tulley
Work
Persistence
Problems
Difficult
Though
Given
Having
Only
Come
Been
Resilience
Chance
The role of a goalkeeper is difficult to judge, above all if you haven't been a goalkeeper. It's like me giving an opinion on someone's job without having had any experience in their sector. You start to realise how many stupid things are said and written about goalkeepers.
Gianluigi Buffon
Me
You
Experience
Judge
Job
Giving
Stupid
Difficult
Sector
About
Someone
Above
Having
Had
Written
Like
Without
Opinion
Said
How
Been
Goalkeeper
Role
Any
Realise
Many
Things
Start
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