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He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Darkness
Evil
Own
Other
Ruin
Entangled
Immerse
Bad
Spirits
Seem
Self
He
Make
Him
Himself
Becomes
His
Perplexed
Than
Improvement
Handsome
Vices
Who
Deep
Actions
Things
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Own
Minds
Misfortune
Thunderstorm
Like
Go
Private
Perplexed
Clock
Frightened
Quiet
Pace
Cannot
Fortune
I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.
Rachel Nichols
Love
Me
Happy
Simplicity
Sugar
Dessert
Mood
Drawn
Constantly
Kinds
About
Something
Supply
Makes
Always
Am
Perplexed
Cone
Options
Endless
Ice
Ice Cream
Flavor
Cream
Growing
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Great
Think
Must
Seeming
Something
Rather
Democratic
Sort
Frequently
Always
Goal
Perplexed
Debates
Than
Intended
Happen
Public
Assembly
March
Dragged
Vague
I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
Brian Ferneyhough
Negative
Though
Term
Perplexed
Your
Application
Imagery
Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?
Dorothea Dix
Great
Crime
Society
Other
Criminal
Hundred
Hundred Years
Respecting
Diminish
Has-Been
Citizenship
Restore
Shall
How
Reduce
Been
Years
Perplexed
Encouraged
Hand
Questions
Reform
Order
Useful
Last
Two
The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?
James C. Maxwell
Man
Intelligence
World
Matter
Space
Mind
Atoms
Sense
Divisible
Equally
Within
Material
Material World
Exist
Perplexed
Questions
Itself
Infinite
Infinitely
Places
Full
Hard
Hard Questions
Many
Extent
I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.
Jennifer Granholm
You
People
Sorry
Whatever
Own
Honestly
Side
Once
Distinction
Kid
About
Outside
Prosecuted
Perplexed
Wall
Fetus
Anything
Happens
Should
Your
Harm
I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.
Kim Gordon
Time
Writing
Thought
Own
Else
Lyrics
Kind
Record
About
Someone
My Own
Write
Had
Idea
Sing
Also
Because
How
Perplexed
Going
Asking
Really
Hard
Many
Hard Time
Play
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
Lionel Blue
Gay
Nervous
Edge
Own
Sexuality
Nervous Breakdown
Something
My Own
Open
Perplexed
Being
Breakdown
Certainly
A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.
Moshe Sharett
Feeling
Before
Back
Carried
Out
Magnitude
Never
Been
Perplexed
Reprisal
Depressed
Room
Forth
Helpless
I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'
Neil Peart
You
Bible
Sunbeam
Hymns
Like
Read
Always
Perplexed
Stories
Wants
Really
Sang
Jesus
I'm very excited about my new Spotify account, which gives me access to twenty gazillion songs any time, all the time. The day I opened my account, though, I sat there perplexed. How would I figure out what I wanted to hear?
Susan Orlean
Time
Day
Me
Though
Out
Would
About
Gives
Songs
Excited
Opened
New
Spotify
Access
How
Hear
Perplexed
Very
Account
Any
Wanted
Which
Figure
Sat
Twenty
Slang has different functions: many of the words we use are playful and a lot are tribal - we speak the same way as the groups we are part of. A great deal are also euphemistic, so it's no surprise that a third of us are perplexed by their meanings and origins.
Susie Dent
Great
Words
Speak
Great Deal
Tribal
Way
Part
Also
Deal
Surprise
Perplexed
Lot
Same
Different
Us
Meanings
Use
Many
Groups
Functions
Origins
Slang
Playful
Third
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