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When public spending in the form of transfer payments makes various services and benefits free of charge, work is discouraged. Yet it is precisely Social Security that legislators fear to cut.
Edmund Phelps
Work
Benefits
Fear
Free
Discouraged
Spending
Charge
Security
Various
Makes
Precisely
Legislators
Form
Transfer
Public
Social
Cut
Payments
Social Security
Services
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
Edmund White
Solitude
Will
Beginning
Hundred
Hundred Years
Rigorous
Unprecedented
Only
Combination
Town
Know
Masterpiece
Because
Limit
Narrative
Years
Very
Endure
Form
Length
Century
Episodic
Novel
I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning.
Edward Carey
Good
Morning
Me
School
Made
Young
Other
Up
Get
Any
Form
Sent
Naval
Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.
Edward Hirsch
Honor
Practice
Creation
Restore
Poetic
Both
Poetry
Rational
Sacred
True
Sought
Accompanies
Aura
Irrational
Form
Elements
Necessary
Speech
The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.
Edward Sapir
Logical
Language
Pressure
Practice
Analysis
Some
Spirit
Adoption
Allow
Blend
Practical
Itself
Form
Should
International
International Language
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.
Edward Sapir
Freedom
World
Single
National
Spirit
Allegiance
Potent
Most
Likely
Identified
Known
Prove
Human
Common
Form
Unit
Human Spirit
Expression
Symbols
A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the design of characters, sets, and backgrounds; in the locations of the camera; in the colors, the lighting, the pacing.
Edwin Catmull
Design
Every
Sets
Backgrounds
Locations
Characters
Thousands
Colors
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Lighting
Performance
Contains
Ideas
Line
Camera
Movie
Form
Literally
Pacing
Sentence
Each
I always saw hurdles as a form of art, because it's very individual. One technique that may produce a world record for one guy could be useless for another guy.
Edwin Moses
Art
World
Hurdles
Saw
Record
Guy
Could
Individual
Another
Because
Always
Very
May
Form
Produce
Useless
Technique
World Record
I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.
El-P
Art
Impossible
Think
Hip-Hop
Art Form
Form
Dying
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
Eli Whitney
Work
Fashion
Every
Tools
Give
Objects
Shall
Proportion
Part
Primary
Just
Form
Themselves
The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.
Elif Batuman
Melancholy
Way
Kind
Some
About
Could
Idea
Like
How
Versus
Form
Disillusionment
Used
Novel
Things
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
Elihu Root
War
Peace
Long
Become
Community
Every
Case
General
Habit
Habits
Observed
Continue
Conduct
Form
Gain
Standards
Helps
I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.
Elizabeth Berg
Art
Parenting
Nothing
Think
Those
Admiration
Well
Art Form
Form
Who
I don't think it's healthy to buy into hype in any form, whether it's positive or negative. You have to exist in yourself and just move on with life.
Elizabeth Debicki
Positive
Life
Buy
You
Yourself
Negative
Hype
Healthy
Move On
Think
Exist
Any
Move
Just
Form
Whether
There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.
Elizabeth McCracken
Life
Time
You
Writing
My Life
Fact
Write
Lazy
Had
Sure
Because
Am
Person
Short
Form
Short Story
Story
Again
Really
Novel
Novels
Ever
Fundamentally
Started
Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.
Ellen Key
Marriage
Duty
Destroy
Imperfect
Outward
Sake
Conditions
Preached
May
Often
Children
Form
Means
Certainly
Binding
Present
Universally
Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.
Ellsworth Huntington
Today
Past
Relation
Earth
Favor
Evolution
Rapid
Poles
Conditions
Than
Form
In The Past
Less
Preserve
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
Elvis Costello
Love
Music
Me
Sense
Some
Part
Feel
Beyond
Understand
Any
Form
I had a brilliant trip to Mexico with my friend Ellie during my gap year. We thought we were being really cool and going off the beaten track while all our friends went to Thailand and Australia. The first beachside bar we walked into - there were two girls from my sixth form in there.
Emily Berrington
Brilliant
Thought
Girl
First
Year
Our
Trip
My Friend
Beaten
Had
Track
Were
Off
Friend
Mexico
Australia
Friends
Walked
Thailand
Going
Sixth
Being
Form
Bar
While
Really
Cool
Gap
Two
These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.
Emily Greene Balch
Death
Hope
People
Colonialism
Way
Possessions
Out
Weaker
Given
Colonial
Imperialism
Economically
Also
Least
Were
Blow
Form
Which
Exploited
Wars
Appear
Treated
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.
Emma Donoghue
You
Comforting
World
Sense
Thinking
Tooth
Tooth Fairy
Kids
Lies
See
Magical
Delight
Part
Make
Fairy
How
Saints
Form
Whether
Eternal
Help
Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it might like in fiction, but I didn't know how to start.
Emma Healey
Family
Several
Members
Had
Like
Dementia
Know
Another
How
Fiction
Wanted
Form
Might
Really
Explore
Start
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
Emma Lazarus
Language
Jews
Adopt
Any
Intensive
Nationality
Form
Customs
Whose
If you drop a player when his form dips, sometimes it never quite comes back.
Eniola Aluko
You
Sometimes
Drop
Back
Dips
Never
His
Quite
Form
Player
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
AOL-Time Warner didn't want a WCW property on their platforms - being TNT or TBS or anything else - in any way, shape, or form, and that was the death nail.
Eric Bischoff
Death
Property
Else
Way
Shape
Nail
Any
Being
Want
Form
Anything
Anything Else
Warner
Platforms
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