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For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.
George Emil Palade
Experience
Darkness
Witness
Confusion
Rare
Understanding
Field
Live
Finally
Those
Only
Through
Dawn
Crumbling
Period
Sound
Scientist
His
Bloom
Endeavour
Listen
Which
While
Descend
Moments
Unique
Unique Experience
Appeared
I grew up with white parents, and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Me
Confusion
College
Parents
White
Saw
Area
Never
Like
Looked
Until
Because
Around
Lot
Up
Anyone
Grew
After
Who
We need to evolve a uniform law which does not leave room for any confusion and states that the minimum marriageable age for women is 18 years and that for men is 21 years. But the demand for this should come from within the community.
Girija Vyas
Age
Women
Law
Confusion
Men
Community
States
Evolve
Minimum
Demand
Come
Within
Does
Leave
Years
Any
Which
Room
Uniform
Should
Need
One of the interesting things about quoting in an artwork is that there is a repeated confusion about who is speaking - one essentially becomes the author of a quote one uses.
Glenn Ligon
Confusion
About
Becomes
Repeated
Author
Essentially
Artwork
Quote
Quoting
Interesting
Interesting Things
Speaking
Who
Uses
Things
I never wanted fame, of all things, and I'm not just being cheeky. There are benefits that come with being famous, but there's also confusion. It's important to make sure your feet stay on the ground.
Grace Park
Benefits
Confusion
Important
All Things
Stay
Never
Feet
Come
Cheeky
Also
Make
Sure
Fame
Just
Being
Famous
Wanted
Being Famous
Your
Ground
Things
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
Irving Babbitt
Confusion
Furthermore
Only
Inversion
Also
America
Lack
Standards
Suffers
Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated.
Isaac of Nineveh
Thoughts
You
Wise
Overcome
Confusion
Mind
Will
Become
Way
Out
Seductive
Examining
Thrown
Like
Look
Test
Been
Infatuated
Impure
Them
Your
Grounds
Even
Imagining
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
Isabel Allende
Love
Reality
Confusion
Circumstances
Out
Write
Most
Sort
Because
Understand
Demons
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch
Strength
Business
Change
Confusion
Willingness
Total
Plunging
Part
While
Means
Company
Even
One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.
Jay Chiat
News
Business
Confusion
Value
Thought
Way
Would
Would-Be
Web
Web Sites
More
Delivering
Model
Sites
Just
Business Model
Less
Based
Started
Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong.
Jazz Jennings
Thoughts
Confusion
Mind
Girl
Trapped
Else
Inside
See
Could
Never
No-One
Part
Knew
Wrong
Since
Boy
Any
Form
Confusing
Body
Why
Ever
Coherent
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
Jeanette Winterson
Myself
Great
Character
Confusion
Great Deal
Invent
Deal
Caused
Did
Wanted
Fictional
Dropbox, with its emphasis on good old-fashioned hierarchies, is superb at automatically saving one original of each photo I take, whether shot with a phone or a fancy camera. No loops, no duplicates, no confusion.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Good
Phone
Confusion
Saving
Photo
Hierarchies
Superb
Take
Emphasis
Loops
Camera
Automatically
Whether
Fancy
Shot
Old-Fashioned
Original
Each
There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.
Jennifer Konner
Great
You
Disappointment
Pilot
Matter
Confusion
Will
Degrees
Someone
Head
Feel
Look
Because
Always
How
Were
Surprises
Sell
Pitch
Going
Different
Script
Based
That's the bulk of my lyrical output - being confused and trying to find answers to my confusion.
Jim James
Confused
Confusion
Lyrical
Find
Output
Answers
Bulk
Trying
Being
So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!
Jim Mattis
Fight
Fear
Confusion
Long
Ideology
Nothing
Marines
Our
Corps
Tyrants
About
Purpose
Institutional
Well
America
Fields
Communists
Fascists
Serve
Medieval
I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his essays and reviews, and it's enacted in his fiction in a mishmash of dizzying incongruities.
Joanna Scott
Confusion
Think
Minded
Favorite
Would
Writer
Him
His
Subject
Reviews
Donald
Essays
Being
Fiction
Confusing
It's a funny thing, my relationship with Deep Purple. I already felt the pain and confusion of trying to replace Ritchie Blackmore, which is a difficult thing to have in your head - since the time when you were a kid, that guitar sound and approach is what you associate with Deep Purple.
Joe Satriani
Funny
Time
Relationship
You
Guitar
Confusion
Pain
Difficult
Funny Thing
Approach
Kid
Purple
Ritchie
Head
Since
Felt
Sound
Were
Replace
Trying
Which
Your
Deep
Deep Purple
Thing
Difficult Thing
Associate
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
John Cheever
People
Confusion
Philosophy
Morals
Between
Look
Because
Always
Been
Fiction
Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.
John Desmond Bernal
Fashion
Creative
Peace
Events
Political
Confusion
Thought
Respectively
Prolonged
Must
Also
Obvious
Hinder
Affect
Effective
Undoubtedly
Very
Whether
Social
Certain
Help
Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.
John Nelson Darby
God
Blessing
Confusion
Will
Insist
Respected
Churches
Finding
Some
Only
Exist
According
Acknowledged
Which
Forming
Midst
Means
Brethren
Beloved
I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.
Jon Johansen
Me
Confusion
Bit
Member
About
Seems
Fact
Part
Written
Encryption
German
In Fact
Happened
Code
Now
I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Food
Me
World
School
Confusion
Parents
Clothes
Other
Other Kids
Kids
Adjusted
Had
Off
Shock
Packed
Turned
Barely
The chaos and confusion during the waning days of the Kitzhaber administration, as well as the ensuing federal investigations into allegations of misconduct, caused Oregonians to question their faith in their governor and state government.
Kate Brown
Faith
Government
Confusion
State
State Government
Chaos
Administration
Allegations
Misconduct
Federal
Investigations
Days
Well
Caused
Question
Governor
It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
Kate Mulgrew
Work
Together
Confusion
Group
Kind
Discomfort
Closely
Refreshing
Any
Where
Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.
Katha Pollitt
Woman
Women
Abortion
Decision
Confusion
Difficult
Say
Haste
Seek
Most
Makes
Opponents
Reply
Agonizing
Ever
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