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All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?
Lynn Margulis
Life
Natural
Enough
Ancestry
Evolution
Has-Been
Selection
Driver
Arisen
New
Occurred
Scientists
Been
Question
Common
Explain
Natural Selection
Agree
Groups
Biological
Extinction
Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.
Lynn Westmoreland
Me
Trust
Money
Gone
Down
Spent
Out
Has-Been
Find
See
How
Been
Trust Me
Quicker
Get
Going
Where
Rebuilding
Start
I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
M. J. Rose
Book
World
Challenge
Three
Lost
Has-Been
Would
Would-Be
City
More
Paris
Since
New
Perfume
Knowing
Greatest
Been
Than
Placed
Centuries
Novel
Belonged
The metalcore has been left behind. It's not something that any of us find enjoyment in listening to, so it's obviously not the direction we would write songs in.
M. Shadows
Listening
Has-Been
Would
Find
Something
Direction
Write
Songs
Obviously
Been
Left
Any
Behind
Us
Enjoyment
Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy.
M. Stanton Evans
Army
Woman
Innocent
Black
Party
Victim
Defense
Member
Has-Been
Pentagon
Annie
Since
Undercover
Moss
Clerk
Identified
She
Democrats
Been
Denied
Lee
McCarthy
Agent
Worked
Communist
Communist Party
Who
Code
Ever
Her
Treated
The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
M. Stanton Evans
Government
School
State
Local
Local School
Finances
Favorite
Has-Been
Districts
Federal
Federal Government
School Districts
Demand
Been
Transferred
Away
I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
M. Ward
Myself
Learning
Guitar
Singing
Secondary
Definitely
Has-Been
See
Adventure
Singer
Sort
Because
Around
Been
Upbringing
Much
Really
Aspect
Chord
Based
Thing
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
Ma Jian
Today
People
Debate
Has-Been
About
Mention
Allowed
Massacre
Forced
Still
Been
Persecuted
Imprisoned
Forget
Official
Being
Information
Chinese
Public
Chinese People
Apology
Media
Event
Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture?
Ma Yansong
Nature
Culture
Architecture
Our
Ourselves
Has-Been
More
Since
Make
How
Leave
Been
Legacy
Discussing
Office
Behind
Human
Beijing
Want
Urban
Ask
Humankind
Need
Olympics
Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
Maajid Nawaz
Satire
Progressives
Tool
Has-Been
Religious
Been
Discreet
Western
Historically
Against
Sanctuary
Used
Originally
Fundamentalism
Everything I stood for, forever, since the beginning of time, has been about seeing people as humans. Not as man, woman, white, Hispanic, any of that stuff.
Machine Gun Kelly
Time
Man
Woman
People
Beginning
White
Everything
Has-Been
Seeing
About
Stuff
Since
Been
Hispanic
Forever
Any
Stood
Humans
NATO has been a thread throughout my life.
Madeleine Albright
Life
My Life
NATO
Has-Been
Thread
Throughout
Been
The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Possible
Has-Been
Greatest
Always
Wade
Least
Repeal
Been
Very
Roe
Republican
Agenda
Extent
If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
Madhuri Dixit
Good
Me
Believe
Back
Way
Guilty
Has-Been
Bad
About
Someone
Feel
Because
Been
Person
Getting
Going
Being
Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
Madison Smartt Bell
Old
Changed
Tremendously
Our
Way
Has-Been
Secured
Cleared
Well
Smoke
Been
Cultural
Manhattan
Century
Capital
Many
Twenty-First
Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
Maeve Binchy
Thought
Pain
Those
Has-Been
Miracle
Like
Surgery
Go
Been
Forever
Modern
Going
Who
I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
Maggie Hassan
Saying
Good
Offended
Country
Think
President
Our
Has-Been
Would
Distressed
Would-Be
He
Highly
Nomination
Terrible
Am
Been
His
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
Maggie Rowe
Kindness
Myself
Me
Remember
Sky
Feeling
Practice
Sense
Say
Has-Been
Would
Phrases
Purple
Toward
Powerful
Comfort
Been
Years
Encourage
Anxious
Which
Meant
Internal
Using
Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
Maggie Shayne
Book
Better
Job
Down
Every
Think
Tremendous
Has-Been
More
More Or Less
Written
Put
Reader
Always
Making
Been
Labeled
Effort
Done
Suspense
Romantic
Whether
Turner
Page
Less
Each
Ever
Harder
There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.
Mahershala Ali
You
Space
Extraordinarily
Has-Been
Prop
Someone
Scene
Deliver
Stuff
Another
Been
Person
Just
Where
Them
Successful
Who
Connect
Element
Necessarily
Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It's hard to be mindful of that, in the same way you're going, 'Oh everything's cool now!' and it isn't. But I try to be mindful of how much of an improvement there has been because that gives hope. You need hope. I need hope!
Mahershala Ali
Hope
You
Try
Made
Markers
Mindful
Everything
Way
Has-Been
Obama
Gives
Because
How
How Much
Era
Been
Improvement
Same
Going
Oh
Being
Much
Hard
Who
Cool
Many
Lived
Now
Need
Everybody has been saying 'Srimanthudu' is the best film of my career. After watching the film, Dad told me that he's never seen me perform like this. I just couldn't stop myself from crying.
Mahesh Babu
Saying
Best
Myself
Me
Seen
Everybody
Has-Been
Never
He
Perform
Like
Crying
Been
Just
Stop
After
Dad
Film
Watching
Career
I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
Mahesh Bhupathi
Love
Change
Competition
Think
Has-Been
Fed
Individual
Davis
Davis Cup
Tennis
Individual Sport
Part
Exciting
Sport
Because
Without
Always
Been
Years
Cup
Very
Get
Any
Being
Place
Team
Many
Platform
Play
Players
Being the Lux girl has been a real journey! I did my first ad before my first film released. I was shy and unaware.
Mahira Khan
Journey
Girl
First
Before
Released
Has-Been
Unaware
Real
Been
Did
Being
Film
Ad
Shy
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
Maimonides
Man
Youth
Defends
Those
Has-Been
Case
He
Likes
Opinions
Opposite
Been
His
Same
Accustomed
Which
Them
Views
Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
Major Owens
Long
Too
Has-Been
Issue
Been
Ignoring
Washington
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