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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims? John O. Brennan

Great Relationship World Minority Hatred Nation Defined States Muslims More Small Exceptionally Allow Powerful Powerful Nation Like Around Narrow Than Should Billion Actions United Why United States

Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon. John Updike

Win Victory Ease Carrying He Majors Tiger Tiger Woods Always Narrow Been His Rocks Uphill Did Woods After Afternoon

If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist. John Zorn

People World Range Out Classical Someone Allow Put Open-Minded Because Narrow Very Listen Straight Who Lives

When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self. Kate Klise

Best Down Honestly Topics Tell Winning Student Self Lead Students Excited Idea Come Most Because Narrow Least His Up Five Reflects Essay Story Which Ask Should Workshops Her

In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else. Kaui Hart Hemmings

Work Focus Long Live Think Setting Else Characters About Long Shot Putting Town Like Overall Tight Island Makes Narrow Close-Up Different Place Which Anywhere Anywhere Else Then Shot Shots Sweep View Wide

Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a place for it and narrow down. It's, really, just start small, and as I'm writing it, I begin to see - sometimes to my own surprise - what's unfolding and what's blooming. Khaled Hosseini

Me Writing Sometimes Own Down Starts Everything Find See Rarely My Own Small Idea Narrow Surprise Very Begin Blooming Just Unfolding Grand Place Really Start

There's nothing wrong with officials taking the subway. Why is this unusual? So people talked about 'one country, two systems,' but maybe we should talk about 'two countries, one system' instead. We should try to narrow the gap. Ko Wen-je

People Try Country Nothing One Country System Systems About Wrong Instead Taking Countries Talk Talked Unusual Narrow Officials Maybe Subway Should Gap Why Two

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible. Krista Tippett

Faith You People Down Birthright Possible Find Religious Religious People Mystery Narrow Answers Often Theology Grasping Things Shut

To my dismay, inadequate signage, non-ADA compliant ramps, narrow doorways, and poorly-placed voting machines are preventing hundreds of thousands of people from exercising one of our most basic rights as Americans. Letitia James

Rights People Voting Our Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Machines Compliant Thousands Thousands Of People Preventing Most Exercising Narrow American Inadequate Dismay Basic Basic Rights

In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else's toes. But in America, British history is an eccentric, minority pursuit, and while this can be intellectually isolating, it also permits extraordinary freedom. Linda Colley

Freedom History You Yourself Minority Own Else Extraordinary Find Eccentric Someone Pursuit Outside Step Mainstream Also Narrow Permits Subject Intellectually America While Toes Your Naturally Treading Britain British

Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non. Louis MacNeice

Experience Men Sense Other Poets Mysticism Instinct Implies Sine Most Narrow Foreign Hand Human Represents Which Specific

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity. Matthew Simpson

Faith Knowledge Old Circle Universe Immediate Through Narrow Personal Move Which Eternity Bodies Realm Derived Wide

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self. Michael Dirda

Home Culture Reading Self Adventurous Blinders Narrow Escape Little

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created. Michael Gove

Low Expectations Those Horizons Invested Academics Narrow Expectations Different Which Regime Low Created Premise Who Starting

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic. Michelle Rodriguez

Time Strong Down Herself Wearing Dresses Takes Majority Female Narrow Feminine Chic Lipstick Just Whenever Being Really Stand

Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it's not a pleasant experience to 'curl up' with a good website. Mike McCue

Website Good Experience Pleasant Pleasant Experience Distracting Ads Columns Reader Narrow Condensed Text Up Articles Curl Themselves Really Across Pages

We are all capable of so much more than the narrow confines of our regular behavior and our personality. So it's interesting to play different notes on your keyboard. Mira Sorvino

Personality Behavior Keyboard Our More Narrow Than Confines Different Interesting Capable Notes Much Regular Your Play

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. Nadine Gordimer

Best Women Progress Men Men And Women Definition Would Would-Be Charter Between Perhaps Powers Narrow Unwritten Continuing Efforts Convenience Gap

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