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With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
Steve Rushin
Daily
Silence
Library
Pretending
Every
Athletes
Only
Obliged
Exception
Feign
Sorrow
Loss
Tragedy
June
Clubhouse
Requiring
Baseball
Daily Basis
Professionals
Basis
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
Susan Griffin
Culture
Women
Master
Live
Imitate
Relatively
Kind
Obliged
Had
He
Feel
Economically
Implicit
Powerless
Force
Female
Up
Politically
Just
Them
Required
Who
Image
Slave
Slaves
Position
Everyone likes a pair of comfy shoes. But is this an automatic right? Comfy shoes are clearly not allowed at the Oscars, for example. Why should criminals enjoy a treat that is denied to our favourite actresses? All prisoners, male and female, should be obliged to wear high heels. This would also make them easier to catch during riots.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
Treat
Example
Shoes
Enjoy
Everyone
Our
Criminals
Easier
High
Would
High Heels
Favourite
Wear
Riots
Obliged
Allowed
Catch
Clearly
For Example
Also
Likes
Make
Female
Prisoners
Male
Denied
Automatic
Heels
Them
Should
Pair
Actress
Why
Right
Oscars
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.
Wilhelm Ostwald
First
Biology
Changed
Though
Possible
Obliged
Simulate
New
Primitive
Know
New Forms
Exist
Conditions
Closely
Form
Forms
Organisms
Internal
Even
External
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.
Wilhelm Steinitz
You
Lose
Otherwise
Obliged
Attack
Advantage
Endangered
On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.
William Bligh
Morning
Pay
Months
Anchor
Out
Following
Obliged
Advance
Were
Ship
Where
Worked
Company
Received
Two
I've always hated to lose and I continue to hate it. But I've been obliged to accept it because I also have had some crushing defeats.
Didier Deschamps
Hate
Lose
Hated
Some
Obliged
Had
Crushing
Also
Accept
Because
Always
Continue
Been
Defeats
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