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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot
World
Analogy
Possibilities
Hopeful
Dubious
Eggs
Handsome
Full
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
Ada Louise Huxtable
Saying
Great
Job
Would
Would-Be
Excellent
Like
Dubious
Undertaking
Which
Awful
If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out.
Al Michaels
Else
Say
Out
See
Web
Web Site
Something
Check
Dubious
Go
Blog
Source
Site
Just
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Right
I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.
Bret Stephens
Party
Assumption
Increasingly
Slightly
Bad
See
Point
Dubious
Opposition
Than
Less
Belonging
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.
Eric Alterman
Will
Three
Few
Believe
Imagination
Distinction
Franklin
Longer
Printed
Genuine
Dubious
Wonder
Survive
America
Current
Form
After
Newspaper
Centuries
Newspapers
Requires
Who
Appearance
Publishing
Last
One of Trump's vulnerabilities is that he doesn't always vet his people, whether it's business partners, the dubious characters he retweets, or the foreign leaders who show up at his door.
Franklin Foer
Business
People
Characters
He
Leaders
Partners
Vulnerabilities
Dubious
Always
Foreign
His
Trump
Up
Vet
Door
Whether
Business Partners
Show
Who
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
Hannah Arendt
Matter
Become
Revolution
Reputation
International Relations
Relations
Uncertain
More
Instrument
Dubious
Affairs
Domestic
Gained
Appeal
International
Specifically
Violence
My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
J. M. Coetzee
Time
Me
Try
Live
Hesitant
Out
Response
Has-Been
More
Abstract
Terms
Answer
Dubious
Continue
Been
Question
Left
Than
May
Productive
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.
James Dickey
Honor
Live
Think
Else
Claim
Kind
More
Poetry
Poets
Most
Because
Does
Dubious
Enables
Reducing
Than
Craft
Done
Anybody
Anybody Else
Mean
Thing
Harm
Fallon tells me about first starting 'Late Night': how he knew audiences were dubious.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Me
First
Late
Late-Night
Tells
About
He
Knew
Dubious
How
Audiences
Were
Night
Starting
Gov. Romney's policies would be a clear departure from the dubious tactics of the Obama administration.
Jeff Duncan
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Would
Would-Be
Tactics
Clear
Policies
Dubious
Departure
Romney
Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.
John Agyekum Kufuor
Live
Living
Resort
Never
Simply
Make
Dubious
Foreign
Get
Again
Lands
Should
Means
Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.
Jon Katz
Christmas
Dog
Gift
Saw
Furniture
Kids
See
Part
New
Most
Because
Match
Dubious
Dogs
American
Moved
Movie
Package
Suburbs
Acquire
Reasons
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
L. Neil Smith
War
Free
Politicians
Military
Corners
Market
Unless
Pencils
Find
Free Market
Talents
Employs
Policemen
Dubious
Were
Sell
Cup
Tin
Bureaucrats
Place
War On Drugs
Now
Street
Millions
The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Bible
Sky
Living
Sun
Inside
Jonah
Scientific
Dubious
Still
Impossibilities
Whale
Full
Standing
We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.
Leonard Mlodinow
Future
Mind
Become
Past
Easy
About
Scenarios
Prophecy
Both
Dubious
Confident
Stories
Explaining
Skepticism
Explanations
Should
View
Keep
A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.
Louis MacNeice
Me
Mother
Prison
Think
County
Well-Meaning
Dubious
South
Led
Hand
Ireland
Escape
North
Childhood
Land
Help
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
Lytton Strachey
Good
Evil
Extremely
Academy
French
French Literature
Dubious
How
How Far
Existence
Question
Influenced
Either
Literature
Far
I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.
Mark Waters
Love
Character
You
Sports
Reading
Otherwise
Considered
Moral
Moral Character
Indiana
About
Attempt
Stems
Dubious
Least
Were
Up
Where
Them
Growing
Growing Up
Play
Play Basketball
Watching
Playing
Basketball
Startups often have to do dubious things.
Paul Graham
Startups
Dubious
Often
Things
They sent me the script, and I was dubious at first. I said, 'Lost in Space? They're reviving that? They tried to do that with the film, and it didn't work.' And then I read the script, and I actually liked it.
Toby Stephens
Work
Me
Space
First
Lost
Tried
Liked
Read
Dubious
Said
Script
Sent
Then
Film
Actually
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