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A swarm finds the solution people best agree upon. It optimizes collective support, whereas a poll tells us how we disagree.
Louis B. Rosenberg
Best
People
Disagree
Collective
Tells
Solution
Finds
Support
How
Poll
Whereas
Us
Agree
Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.
Louis MacNeice
Satire
Animals
Practice
Pessimist
Thinking
Evidence
Machines
Plenty
Finds
He
Support
Contemporary
His
Human
Doomed
Human Beings
View
Theory
Beings
Based
Basically
Lewis
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Grief
Nothing
Chronic
Console
Rightly
Finds
Someone
Becomes
Fresh
Quickly
Offensive
Ridiculed
Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.
Malcolm Gladwell
Gay
Marriage
Country
Differences
Doors
Club
Community
Society
Jews
Gay Community
Easiest
Minimize
Finds
Outsider
Mainstream
Country Club
Opens
Welcomes
Majority
Him
Privilege
American
Separate
American Society
Chooses
Tolerant
Extend
University
We're always steered towards what is good in the canon by a male perspective. I like to do plays with a female protagonist who finds her way through. My way is unusual.
Marianne Elliott
Good
Perspective
Way
Finds
Steered
Through
Towards
Like
Protagonist
Unusual
Female
Always
Male
Canon
Who
Her
Plays
My entire philosophy of teaching is based on the notion that when an artist finds a certain process really effortless, that's probably what he or she should choose to do. So often, students take the opposite tack; they have no use for the skills that come easily to them.
Marilyn Minter
Philosophy
Easily
Finds
Entire
Take
Students
He
He Or She
Come
She
Opposite
Effortless
Artist
Often
Process
Them
Really
Certain
Should
Skills
Use
Notion
Choose
Teaching
Based
Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.
Mark Zandi
Market
Our
Finds
Recover
Footing
Economy
Until
Housing
Housing Market
Going
For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.
Mary Roach
Work
Me
Somebody
Pleased
Kind
Finds
Feel
Puzzled
Over
Like
Sort
Makes
Scientists
Been
Stone
Interesting
Turned
Fun
A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
Matt Cameron
Success
Time
Style
Band
Finds
Sound
Lot
Times
Artists
Breaking
Really
Certain
Hard
Hard Time
Grow
Away
Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.
Matthew James Thomas
Love
Best
Madness
Thought
Sense
Relate
Ways
Finds
Through
Knew
Wrong
Stuff
Him
Himself
Greater
Proven
Been
End
Often
Chooses
Many
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
Max Frisch
Truth
Best
Man
Protection
Convictions
Living
Everything
Finds
Answer
Form
Against
What I think is important about essayists - about the essay, as opposed to a lot of personal writing that kind of finds its way into public view - is that the material really has to be presented in a processed way.
Meghan Daum
Writing
Important
Think
Way
Kind
Finds
About
Material
Opposed
Lot
Personal
Essay
Processed
Public
Really
View
Presented
In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's literature and detective fiction, of modern adventure, mystery and romance.
Michael Dirda
Science
Single
Finds
Detective
Mystery
Lifetime
Adventure
Science Fiction
Pioneering
Modern
Romance
Children
Fiction
Literature
Fantasy
Works
Roughly
On any given day, I'm likely to be working at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Thoughts and Beautiful Sentences - or so they seem at the time, like those beautifully flecked and iridescent stones one finds at the seashore that gradually dry into dull gray pebbles.
Michael Dirda
Beautiful
Time
Day
Home
Great
Thoughts
Keyboard
Typing
Those
Finds
Seem
Given
Over
Like
Likely
Beautifully
Dry
Dull
Gradually
Stones
Any
Sentences
Working
Seashore
Gray
Pebbles
Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that a stunted protagonist finds difficult to muster.
Mike Mills
Dog
Words
Mind
Difficult
Back
Everyone
Muster
Finds
Protagonist
Stunted
Talking
Talks
Provide
Then
Your
A 7-footer who hits a step-back jumper - that's a pretty unicorn-like thing. Or someone who blocks a shot off the top of the backboard, pushes it in transition, and finds a shooter in the corner - that's pretty unicorn-like.
Mohamed Bamba
Corner
Top
Finds
Pretty
Someone
Pushes
Blocks
Off
Hits
Shooter
Transition
Shot
Who
Thing
Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.
Murray Rothbard
Nature
Man
Treat
Earth
Finds
Simply
Environment
Himself
Sheer
Nonsense
Being
Which
Separate
Image
If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
Natalia Vodianova
You
Will
Way
Out
Finds
Temporary
Talent
Most
Likely
Glory
Always
Ambitious
Moment
As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.
Natalie Massenet
Love
Beautiful
Day
Finds
Seeing
Online
Small
Beautiful Day
Also
Discover
Walking
Shop
Store
Much
Vintage
Streets
I've always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens - you know, until it finds its own plot - because you can't outline and then fit the thing into it. I suppose it's a slow way of working.
Nelson Algren
You
Book
Slow
Own
Way
Plot
Finds
Something
Finish
Outline
Only
Could
Longer
Suppose
Know
Until
Because
Always
Making
Fit
Get
Just
Happens
Then
Working
Figured
Keep
Thing
I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.
Nicola Cornick
Work
Hard Work
Writing
Every
Find
Finds
Know
Author
Then
Really
Hard
I have a wonderful assistant. I tell her I need four amputees and a midget, and she finds them.
Nikki Sixx
Wonderful
Tell
Finds
She
Midget
Them
Her
Four
Assistant
Need
Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.
Nina Easton
Politics
Money
Long
Enough
Has-Been
Finds
Rushing
Invariably
River
Like
Around
Erect
Been
Truism
Cracks
Any
Anyone
Avoid
Who
Washington
Dam
We will ensure that the important characters of what make 'Make in India' an important flagship programme for PM Modi is given full play for defence production. 'Make in India' needs to take over so we benefit from what is manufactured in India and finds an international market.
Nirmala Sitharaman
Needs
Will
Important
Defence
Benefit
Market
Ensure
Characters
India
Finds
Given
Take
Over
Make
Production
Full
International
Play
Programme
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith
Art
Woman
Too Late
Guilt
Men
Too
Late
Melancholy
Finds
Betray
Folly
Charm
Soothe
Lovely
Wash
Away
Her
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
Otto von Bismarck
Fear
Finds
Echo
Never
German
Hearts
Appeal
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