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Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.
Simon Winchester
Nature
You
Natural
People
World
Will
Evil
Live
Earth
Risky
Remarkable
Knocked
Employed
Well
Fairly
Occasionally
Well Known
Known
Geological
Off
Get
Any
Intent
Human
Regarded
Happening
Cannot
Place
Which
Shoulders
Reasons
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
Siri Hustvedt
Character
Sympathy
Penetrate
Characters
Easy
Empathy
Make
Off
Very
Lack
Repugnant
Cut
Hard
Who
Damaged
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.
Sonia Sotomayor
Princeton
Action
Baby
Those
Colleagues
Bronx
Able
Born
Perfect
Institutions
Yale
Am
Test
Test Scores
Were
South
Off
Scores
South Bronx
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Rican
Succeed
Far
Product
Comparable
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Raised
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Sophocles
Gratitude
Dead
How
Proved
Off
Quick
Quickly
Owed
Deceiver
Alas
Flows
Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.
Stanley Kubrick
Problem
Car
Somebody
Everyone
Wear
Somehow
Something
Writes
Football
Instance
Myths
Part
Over
Until
Read
Repeated
Years
Off
Wall
Accumulate
Gets
Cannot
Helmet
Dispel
Believes
If we want to revive and achieve the American Dream, we need to change a situation in which the people whose hard work makes this country run cannot earn a living wage, while bankers, speculators, and corporate elites - the real 'takers' in today's society - skim off far more than their fair share.
Stephanie Coontz
Work
Today
Hard Work
Change
People
Achieve
Country
Situation
Living
Society
Earn
Corporate
Run
Dream
More
Share
Takers
Fair
Fair Share
Makes
Real
Wage
Off
Revive
Than
American
American Dream
Bankers
Want
Cannot
Which
While
Far
Hard
Whose
Living Wage
Elites
Need
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
Stephen Kinzer
Ways
Some
Cases
Troubled
Towns
Off
Midwestern
Decline
Many
Grasping
Extinction
Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'
Steve Jobs
Word
Edge
Took
Computer
Off
Apple
I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that's inspired by a response.
Steve Martin
You
Yourself
Response
One Thing
Find
Something
Inspired
Idea
Leads
Like
Another
Off
Going
Then
Tweet
Thing
My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.
Steven Spielberg
Me
Heart
People
Sky
Car
Looking
Lying
Took
Saw
Kid
Out
Tell
See
Scary
Beating
Blankets
He
Put
Know
Because
Meteor
Woke
Off
Up
Middle
Wanted
Little
Little Kid
Shower
Dad
Night
My mum was born and raised in Ghana and has a lot of Ghanaian values and traditions and morals. All that rubbed off on me, and that's why I have a lot of love and good energy in me - that universal energy is a Ghanaian thing.
Stormzy
Love
Good
Me
Values
Energy
Ghana
Born
Morals
Traditions
Lot
Off
Mum
Why
Thing
Universal
Raised
I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.
Susan Estrich
God
Dreams
Time
Business
Old
Before
Own
Old Friends
Thinking
Spend
About
Gives
Go
Lot
Off
Friends
Children
Places
Us
Brief
Homes
Letting
Letting Go
I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.
Suze Orman
Home
Me
Balance
People
Money
Pay
Down
Saved
Savings
Tell
Emergency
Unrealistic
Off
Get
Frustrated
Create
Payment
Fund
Credit
Card
Credit Card
I generally encourage people to make good on debts when they have enough money to repay them. But once a delinquency has been reported to a collection agency, paying it off won't help your FICO score. The damage has already been done, and the blemish will remain on your credit report for seven years.
Suze Orman
Good
People
Money
Will
Enough
Enough Money
Seven
Once
Has-Been
Collection
Remain
Generally
Make
Repay
Been
Years
Score
Encourage
Off
Debts
Report
Reported
Done
Them
Agency
Your
Paying
Help
Credit
Damage
Shopping turns me off.
Tea Leoni
Me
Shopping
Off
Turns
We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
Ted Cruz
Welfare
Build
Those
Cities
Border
Border Patrol
Triple
Fence
Off
End
Patrol
Sanctuary
Them
Cutting
Funding
Here
There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.
Terri Blackstock
God
Burden
Luxury
Nothing
Our
Our Lives
Give
Lifted
Weight
Sin
Crushing
Know
Repent
Off
Than
Heavier
Shoulders
Lives
As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things don't go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.
Terry Francona
Work
You
Better
Sometimes
Will
Consistent
Easy
Follow
Some
More
Better Off
Lead
Takes
Well
Go
Off
Up
Upbeat
Manager
Which
Your
Things
Players
I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.
Terry Pratchett
Down
Side
Something
Write
Head
Feel
Because
Off
Get
Bang
Going
After
While
Then
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
Theodore Sturgeon
Writing
Compassion
Mind
Humor
Virtually
Philosophical
Rand
Impact
Some
Writer
Writers
Economical
Major
Like
Message
She
Because
Passing
Off
Huge
Huge Impact
Lousy
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Really
Who
Her
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
Thom Gunn
Me
Age
Old
Assumed
All My Friends
Would
Had
Around
Off
Friends
Very
Gradually
Dying
Plague
Them
Cut
Growing
Growing Old
Early
Here
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas Carlyle
Wait
Would
Spin
Entirely
Imperfection
Advancing
Till
Off
Person
Ever
Nowhere
Axis
I used to have a phone machine that you turn 'on' and 'off,' which was great. Now, it's so technological that it's like going down the rabbit hole.
Tim Burton
Great
You
Phone
Down
On And Off
Machine
Like
Off
Going
Hole
Which
Rabbit
Turn
Turn-On
Used
Now
Technological
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
Todd Solondz
Survival
Narcissism
Self-Deception
Without
Off
Jump
Just
Which
Might
Us
Many
Bridge
Mechanisms
We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
Tom Baker
Life
Religion
Natural
Will
Out
Something
Drink
Exciting
Idea
Heads
Make
Comfort
Off
Get
Human
Impulse
Substance
Want
Human Beings
Which
Them
Fantasy
Beings
When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.
Tom Brady
You
Leaders
Days
Off
Team
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