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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Nature
Physics
World
Biology
Local
Bump
Essential
Human
Psychology
If you want to act, do school plays. If they're not there, create them, and the same with local repertory. They are the grounding for a lot of people. Make it happen.
William Kircher
You
People
School
Local
School Plays
Make
Make It Happen
Lot
Repertory
Same
Want
Happen
Them
Create
Act
Grounding
Plays
By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.
William P. Leahy
Country
Difficulty
Local
Bishop
Say
Those
Fine
Some
Come
Catholic
Anticipate
Pastor
Campus
May
Screening
Across
Means
Teaching
Who
If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.
Willie Herenton
News
Local
Local News
Know
Look
Real
Create
In their war against Israel's existence, the Arab governments took advantage of the Cold War. They enlisted the military, economic, and political support of the communist world against Israel, and they turned a local, regional conflict into an international powder keg.
Yitzhak Shamir
War
Conflict
World
Political
Military
Cold
Cold War
Took
Local
Arab
Economic
Powder
Support
Advantage
Israel
Existence
Governments
Against
Regional
Turned
Communist
International
Enlisted
I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
Yoko Ono
Good
Travel
Book
Feeling
Thinking
Local
Definite
City
Seems
Selection
Pick
Like
Make
How
Arrive
Go
Lot
Karmic
Connection
Based
Once in a while, I write in Malay and work on something fun that's more for the local Malaysian market, and when that happens, it's always something really special; it speaks volumes that I'm doing it for my fans who have been there for me since day one.
Yuna
Work
Day
Me
Fans
Local
Market
Once
Something
Something Fun
More
Write
Volumes
Day One
Since
Always
Doing
Been
Happens
While
Really
Speaks
Special
Who
Fun
The old 20th-century political model of Left vs. Right is now basically irrelevant, and the real divide today is between global and national, global or local. All over the world, this is not the main struggle.
Yuval Noah Harari
Today
Struggle
World
Political
Old
National
Local
Divide
Main
Between
Over
Global
Real
Left
Model
Irrelevant
Now
Right
Basically
I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
Zadie Smith
Me
Writing
Local
Kind
Could
Neutral
Never
Anywhere
Interested
Novel
Thing
Universal
Set
My dreams of taking the West End by storm as a dancer flickered but then faded; my father’s ambition to see me in a steady office job was tried and abandoned. But I had won a national speaking award, had stood for election to the local council, had begun to travel and took a job working for the Labour Party.
Betty Boothroyd
Dreams
Me
Travel
Election
Job
Party
National
Ambition
Took
Local
Dancer
Abandoned
Tried
See
Steady
Council
Had
Faded
Taking
West
End
Won
Labour
Office
Begun
Labour Party
Stood
Storm
Then
Working
Speaking
Award
I know that there is a near unanimous view in Congress that state or local taxes on Internet access would directly deter the ability of consumers to obtain and utilize the Internet. If that is an accepted premise, as it should be, the same concept should apply to the net neutrality debate and its certainty to increase consumer bills.
Michael O'Rielly
Debate
Internet
Neutrality
Congress
Increase
State
Local
Unanimous
Would
Ability
Deter
Net
Directly
Consumer
Consumers
Know
Concept
Obtain
Accepted
Access
Same
Taxes
Should
View
Certainty
Premise
Bills
Utilize
Near
Apply
We must continue to recruit progressive prosecutors to run in local elections, support those who do, and hold them accountable if they win.
James Forman, Jr.
Win
Progressive
Local
Those
Run
Must
Recruit
Support
Prosecutors
Continue
Accountable
Hold
Them
Elections
Who
In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.
Bill Gates
Good
Everybody
Local
Bit
Though
Kids
Bizarre
Students
Pick
Almost
Merit
Schools
Because
How
Scores
Goes
Going
Different
Sat
Actually
Thing
Universities
University
There are many factors that affect crime rates. But we recognize that the main reason crime has decreased has always been - and always will be - the dangerous and stressful work done by state and local law enforcement officers day in and day out.
William Barr
Work
Day
Dangerous
Law
Crime
Will
State
Local
Recognize
Out
Law Enforcement
Rates
Factors
Main
Main Reason
Day-Out
Always
Affect
Been
Officers
Done
Enforcement
Reason
Many
Stressful
I hate for people to think that I have only played for West Ham because I am the local lad and people make allowances for me.
Mark Noble
Me
Hate
People
I Am
Think
Local
Only
Allowances
Make
Because
Am
Ham
West
Lad
Played
I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.
Kate O'Mara
Buy
Health
Home
Happy
Strict
Organic
Local
Everything
Brown
Vegetarian
Almost
Almost Everything
Like
Stick
Always
Salads
Get
Regime
Rice
Including
Milk
I've always said that we must do local cinema but not lose sight of national appeal. That's the way New Theatres, L V Prasad, Gemini Studios operated.
Prosenjit Chatterjee
Cinema
Gemini
Lose
National
Local
Way
Sight
Must
Studios
New
Operated
Said
Always
Appeal
In the end, I am confident that we can revise our rules to provide necessary and appropriate flexibility for local broadcasters while preserving and/or improving the experience of those watching children's programming.
Michael O'Rielly
Experience
I Am
Programming
Preserving
Local
Our
Appropriate
Broadcasters
Rules
Those
Am
Provide
Revise
End
Improving
Confident
Children
In The End
While
Flexibility
Necessary
Watching
Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
Isaac D'Israeli
Degree
Power
Doubt
Rose
Increased
Local
Rule
Distracted
Arabian
Weakness
Exact
Some
Temporary
Proportion
Importance
Most
Princes
Periods
Without
Always
Hebrew
Certain
Attempts to restrict encryption at the state or local levels would only serve to undermine security and economic competitiveness for the entire nation.
Ted Lieu
Nation
State
Local
Security
Would
Entire
Restrict
Only
Economic
Attempts
Undermine
Encryption
Serve
Levels
Competitiveness
For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.
Ed Begley, Jr.
Needs
Training
Community
Nimble
Local
Local Community
Backbone
Colleges
Leaders
Economy
Because
Attuned
Been
Decades
American
Closely
Movement
Sustainable
Influential
Workforce
Inherently
When you are in a different city, you must relish the local food and I always like to try the authentic taste and flavours of a city.
Amyra Dastur
Food
You
Try
Local
Must
City
Relish
Like
Always
Authentic
Taste
Different
2018 marks 30 years since Margaret Thatcher's government introduced Section 28, one of its most abominable policies. As a part of the Local Government Act, this Section was designed to prevent local authorities and schools from the so-called promotion of LGBT+ issues.
Angela Rayner
Government
Local
Local Government
Marks
Section
Introduced
Promotion
Prevent
Part
Since
Most
Schools
Policies
Issues
Years
Authorities
Thatcher
So-Called
Act
Margaret
Designed
I got into Nirvana, and it was my sort of awakening into the idea that music could be like rough and crazy and local. And so I started to realize that there were bands playing in my town, Anacortes.
Phil Elverum
Music
Crazy
Local
Nirvana
Could
Idea
Town
Like
Sort
Got
Were
Bands
Realize
Awakening
Rough
Started
Playing
I am hoping that by breaking barriers myself, I can inspire a whole new generation of people to think 'you know what, maybe I can, not just run a country, maybe I could start a company, maybe I could do something in my own local community to make a positive change.'
Jagmeet Singh
Positive
Myself
You
Change
Generation
People
I Am
Inspire
Country
Own
Community
Think
Positive Change
Local
Local Community
I Can
Run
Hoping
Something
My Own
Could
New
Know
Make
New Generation
Am
Maybe
Just
Breaking
Barriers
Whole
Company
Start
I grew up in a little town called Uckfield, and there's not much to do - so we used to fight a lot. I was never in serious trouble, but we used to have the local bobby round the house saying, 'Rory's been up to this again.'
Rag'n'Bone Man
Saying
Fight
Trouble
Local
Never
Town
House
Been
Lot
Up
Grew
Again
Little
Bobby
Much
Used
Little Town
Serious
Round
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