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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes
History
Become
Discouraged
Before
Triumphed
Winners
Obstacles
Most
Because
Encountered
Won
Heartbreaking
Refused
Notable
Defeats
With the notable exceptions of rum drinks, black beans, fat brown cigars, the smiles of pretty girls, hot yellow sunlight, and fat men with guitars and bongos playing mambos, rumbas, and boleros late into the night, nothing in Cuba comes easily.
Jonathan Miles
Black
Men
Girl
Nothing
Late
Rum
Easily
Sunlight
Guitars
Pretty
Pretty Girls
Brown
Beans
Drinks
Exceptions
Hot
Smiles
Cuba
Yellow
Notable
Fat
Playing
Night
Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden's most notable accomplishment was lying about his military service, his experience, and education to procure a job with the NSA in the first place.
Pete Hoekstra
Work
Education
Service
Hard Work
Experience
World
Job
Sacrifice
First
Dedication
Military
Lying
About
Most
First Place
Real
His
Years
Accomplishment
Snowden
The Real World
Real World
Place
Notable
Succeed
Procure
Hard
Military Service
Necessary
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Edward R. Murrow
Respect
Men
Country
Affection
Few
Politician
Seeks
Exceptions
Simply
Votes
Order
Want
Loved
Notable
Who
It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
Saint Ignatius
Struggle
Soul
Peace
Achieve
Virtue
Possess
Both
Self
Never
Advances
Make
Industrious
Because
Any
Fronts
Energetic
While
Against
Notable
Certain
Fullness
Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.
Anthony Marra
Work
Best
Business
People
Word
Made
Enough
Meet
Despite
Broadcast
Way
See
Throughout
Had
Tourist
Chechnya
Town
Come
Around
Quickly
Efforts
American
Sites
Republic
Notable
Growing up, I had my mom to look up to; J. Lo and Marilyn Monroe were notable curvy women. But I didn't have anyone with cellulite or back fat telling me they didn't care.
Ashley Graham
Mom
Me
Women
Care
Monroe
Back
Telling
Had
Look
Were
Up
Anyone
Curvy
Notable
Growing
Growing Up
Fat
Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe
If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century.
Catherine Martin
History
You
Old
Will
Long
Big
Tried
See
Long Island
Throughout
Houses
Island
Always
Go
Link
Families
Wallpaper
Established
Which
Notable
Chinese
Century
Painted
I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery.
Charles B. Rangel
Rights
King
Montgomery
Beside
Civil
Some
Civil Rights
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr
Joseph
Most
Proud
Jackson
Notable
Activists
March
Jesse Jackson
Dr
Luther
Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth.
Chrystia Freeland
Wealth
Degree
First
Our
Consists
Rise
New
Economy
Globally
Led
Notable
Connected
But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.
Daniel Goleman
Before
Increase
Slice
Also
Greater
Been
Years
Than
Interest
Notable
Far
Much
Ever
Applications
Wider
Recent
Recent Years
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
E. M. Forster
Distinction
Something
Concealing
Between
Vulgarity
Revealing
His
Very
Notable
Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.
Eric Maskin
Teacher
Extremely
Kids
Something
Facing
Thrown
Students
Faculty
Like
Also
Course
MIT
Wolves
Just
Being
Notable
Rookie
Bright
I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.
Jesse Eisenberg
Other
Way
More
Most
Am
Than
Person
Famous
Notable
Actor
Hardly
When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.
Jim Rash
Work
You
People
Own
Right People
About
Beau
Like
Know
Talking
How
Brains
Celebrities
Want
Notable
Who
Right
You see a documentary, you want to see it on Aerosmith or Jon Bon Jovi or Kiss, a band that's been established and sold millions of records and done something notable.
John Corabi
You
Kiss
Band
Sold
See
Something
Records
Jon
Documentary
Aerosmith
Been
Done
Established
Want
Notable
Bon Jovi
Millions
There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.
Julia Jones
Way
Female
Been
Historically
Very
American
Native
Native American
Notable
Figures
Many
Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and a few older, thatched houses. The valley was settled early in the 1680s by Huguenots fleeing repression.
Justin Cartwright
Memory
Simple
Three
Few
Older
Settled
Valley
Some
Houses
Repression
Place
Notable
Victorian
Fleeing
Streets
Early
Recent
Two
Two actors that I had particularly fantastic experiences with include Chris Doubek, a notable indie journeyman who also happened to live in the trailer behind my house, and Violett Beane.
Keith Maitland
Live
Indie
Had
Journeyman
Particularly
House
Also
Trailer
Behind
Experiences
Happened
Notable
Fantastic
Who
Include
Actor
Chris
Two
Shane Johnson and I coincidently went to Whitman College. This is notable because Whitman is teeny-tiny, with only 1,200 students. He graduated the spring before I started, so we didn't know each other.
Lela Loren
College
Spring
Before
Other
Only
Johnson
Shane
Students
He
Know
Because
Graduated
Notable
Whitman
Each
Started
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
Otto Weininger
Life
Enemy
Fire
Exactly
About
Like
Also
Often
Flames
Oxygen
Burn
Notable
Requires
Thereby
Compared
Among
Things
At first sight, Pogba was notable for his size and physicality, and when you got to know him, there was also a confidence about him.
Paul Scholes
You
Confidence
First
Sight
About
Physicality
Know
Also
Him
Got
His
Size
Notable
Mushrooms provide a vast array of potential medicinal compounds. Many mushrooms - such as portobello, oyster, reishi and maitake - are well-known for these properties, but the lion's mane mushroom, in particular, has drawn the attention of researchers for its notable nerve-regenerative properties.
Paul Stamets
Lion
Mushroom
Mushrooms
Drawn
Compounds
Properties
Potential
Vast
Attention
Particular
Array
Provide
Notable
Researchers
Many
Medicinal
There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
Rachel Sklar
Define
Parent
Something
Tendency
Does
Person
Offspring
Famous
Famous Person
Notable
Them
For all its bluster, the BDS campaign is most notable, I think, for its lack of success. Trade is booming; tourism is soaring. The media campaign is full of sound and fury, but to the majority of Britain today, it signifies nothing.
Sajid Javid
Success
Today
Nothing
Think
Booming
Fury
Tourism
Most
Majority
Trade
Sound
Campaign
Lack
Soaring
Notable
Full
Media
Britain
Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
Vincent Bugliosi
Me
Word
Conspiracy
Rest
Before
Nights
Though
Critics
Some
Through
Exceptions
Had
Remind
Come
Said
Context
Dogs
Came
Bullet
Were
Persistent
Commission
Endless
Screaming
Different
Notable
Barking
Warren
Large
Even
Whom
Fatal
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