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I used to carry a briefcase instead of a school bag when going to school because I was shy and introverted then. But over the years, especially Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) helped me overcome these insecurities and scale greater heights.
Rajeev Suri
Me
Technology
School
Overcome
Heights
Scale
Carry
Insecurities
Introverted
Instead
Bag
Over
Institute
Greater
Because
MIT
Years
Going
Then
Used
Helped
Briefcase
Shy
When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they do. I've never come away from that kind of experience feeling disillusioned, as if the magician had explained his tricks. I always find a greater appreciation for the form.
Rebecca Makkai
You
Appreciation
Experience
Feeling
Kind
Tricks
Find
About
Magician
Something
Never
Had
Come
Talk
Learn
Greater
Always
How
His
Author
Any
Artist
Form
Disillusioned
Explained
Really
Away
There is a seductive simplicity in Donald Trump's vision to build walls and ban refugees to protect American interests. But we must always remember that we create far greater opportunity for all Americans when we enable the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of people globally to take root here.
Reshma Saujani
Creativity
People
Vision
Simplicity
Remember
Opportunity
Walls
Build
All Americans
Must
Seductive
Spirit
Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurial Spirit
Take
Protect
Globally
Greater
Enable
Always
Trump
Ban
American
Donald
Refugees
American Interests
Far
Create
Root
Interests
Here
You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.
Richard Blackmore
You
Mind
Thought
Invention
Single
Own
Though
Various
Wrought
Well
Greater
Motion
Motions
Springs
Tis
Which
Designed
Watch
In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.
Richard Flanagan
You
Yourself
Reading
Sense
More
Mysterious
Divine
Greater
Than
Larger
Things
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.
Richard Ford
Experience
Rather
Writer
Parochial
Participate
Mississippi
Greater
Southern
Than
American
American Experience
Wanted
Decided
Urge
Larger
Early
The U.N. and other international bodies, along with wealthier nations, could manage the unavoidable migration from poorer countries if there were greater focus on stopping the larger chaos created by leaders who finance and support terrorism in the name of Islam.
Richard Grenell
Finance
Terrorism
Focus
Islam
Other
Chaos
Unavoidable
Could
Leaders
Support
Countries
Name
Along
Greater
Were
Manage
Nations
Stopping
Poorer
Created
Migration
Bodies
Who
International
Larger
If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.
Richard Holbrooke
Will
Country
Become
Victim
AIDS
Greater
Inevitably
Denies
Even
The benefits of freer trade, such as job creation, lower inflation, and greater consumer choice, are often invisible or only partly visible.
Richard N. Haass
Benefits
Inflation
Job
Creation
Visible
Job Creation
Only
Consumer
Invisible
Freer
Partly
Greater
Trade
Often
Choice
Lower
Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.
Richard Wagner
World
Will
Wish
Dignified
Everything
Would
Through
Shape
Fain
Reach
Greater
Tragic
According
Itself
Than
Breaking
Satisfaction
Here
Last
The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.
Rick Bayan
People
World
Greater
Anything
Much
Less
Amount
Belongs
Liability
Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.
Rick Perry
Success
Government
Wealth
Setting
Course
Greater
Spreading
America
Dependency
While
I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.
Rita Coolidge
Life
Music
Me
Experience
Human Being
Wealth
Lifetime
Road
Greater
Makes
Got
Source
Tap
Human
Being
Different
Experiencing
Information
Richer
Whole
Players
Being in service and being involved in something that is greater than you is what makes a person complete and whole. The very first thing I ever did in terms of activism was for an anti-atom bomb rally.
Rita Moreno
Service
You
First
Rally
Complete
Something
Involved
Terms
First Thing
Greater
Makes
Very
Than
Person
Did
Being
Whole
Activism
Bomb
Ever
Thing
I ended up making my name at Marvel, but I've always desired greater access to the DCU characters. Bottom line: I'm a huge fan.
Rob Liefeld
Characters
Marvel
Bottom
Bottom Line
Name
Greater
Access
Always
Making
Line
Huge
Up
Huge Fan
Ended
Fan
Desired
I've always been tough my whole life. I'm able to take a lot of punishment, and that might be an even greater asset than my offense. I'm the guy that can take your best shot, and I'm not going to go down.
Rob Van Dam
Life
Best
Tough
Down
Punishment
Able
Guy
Take
Greater
Always
Go
Been
Lot
Offense
Than
Going
Might
Shot
Your
Whole
Even
Asset
They decided to no longer air my messages on 'The Hour of Power.' They felt they could have greater impact if they had lots of different preachers. 'The Hour of Power' owns the Crystal Cathedral, and the owners, in effect, evicted me... so that they could have other preachers on Sunday mornings.
Robert A. Schuller
Me
Sunday
Power
Other
Air
Impact
Could
Mornings
Had
Longer
Hour
Cathedral
Messages
Crystal
Greater
Felt
Effect
Lots
Preachers
Owners
Owns
Different
Decided
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Day
Man
Woman
Generation
Mother
Wife
Men
Daughter
Find
More
He
Greater
Estimate
Grander
Meanest
Lowest
Thinks
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
Robert South
Work
Judgment
Imagination
Other
Must
Above
Faculty
Greater
Contract
Than
Fancy
Shorten
Far
Therefore
I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.
Robert Winston
People
Some People
Think
Some
Had
Like
Greater
Because
Praise
Celebrity
Than
Get
Being
Really
Agree
Exposure
Media
Deserve
There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child.
Rodman Philbrick
Pleased
Compliment
Troubled
Writer
Greater
Than
Child
Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called 'strict constructionists.' Rather, they celebrated reason as the means to gain greater insight into divine intentions.
Rodney Stark
Today
Strict
Christian
Insight
Rather
Divine
Leading
Greater
Were
Augustine
Celebrated
Intentions
Gain
Might
Means
Theologians
Reason
We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.
Ron Kind
Leadership
Goals
Energy
White
White House
Setting
See
Dates
Alliance
House
Renewable
Alternative
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy Sources
Greater
Sources
Achieving
Energy Sources
Certain
Should
Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.
Ron Wyden
Money
Internet
Power
Those
Kind
Online
Voice
Lawyers
Step
Towards
Protect
Greater
Access
IP
Than
Piracy
Stop
Different
Which
Different Kind
Act
Who
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Ronald Reagan
Today
Day
Country
Military
Our
Danger
Absolutely
Greater
Were
Than
After
Incapable
Harbor
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Defending
The world is far more interconnected today. Hence the need to understand each other is greater than ever before.
Ronnie Chan
Today
World
Before
Other
More
Greater
Understand
Than
Interconnected
Far
Each
Hence
Ever
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