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Human beings rarely do things for a binary reason.
Laura Kuenssberg
Binary
Rarely
Human
Human Beings
Reason
Beings
Things
Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.
Leon Russell
Hope
Me
Tough
Sit
Would
Rarely
Inspiration
Songwriting
Come
Go
Very
Forthcoming
Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.
Leslie Mann
Love
Respect
Men
Rarely
Get
Them
Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive challenges.
Letitia James
Challenges
Competition
Face
Nation
Drawn
Districts
Rarely
Lawmakers
Around
Up
Precision
Legislators
Aversion
Perverse
Competitive
Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in oil paintings and sculpture. But before the 20th century, such dynasts rarely commissioned artworks that set out to represent society as a whole.
Linda Colley
Happy
Before
Society
Other
Possessions
Out
Wealthy
Rarely
Aristocrat
Individuals
Powerful
Been
Families
Commissioned
Represent
Oil
Century
Themselves
Sculpture
Whole
Paintings
Monarchs
Set
American prejudices about Europe rarely surface in headlines, but they are real, pervasive, and ingrained.
Linda Colley
Rarely
About
Headlines
Surface
Real
American
Ingrained
Prejudices
Pervasive
Europe
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.
Louise Brown
Work
Book
Opportunity
Teenager
Rarely
Had
Powerful
Since
Like
Practical
Read
Providing
Escape
Child
Whenever
Children
Then
Much
Hard
Incentives
Reason
Found
Pets
Why
I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.
Louise Erdrich
Long
Before
Tree
Sidewalk
Favorite
Wear
Rarely
Trips
Touch
Step
Cracks
Going
Watch
Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.
Louise Slaughter
Challenge
Will
Country
Big
Rarely
Writers
Never
Touring
Major
Towns
Sprawling
Go
Person
America
May
Artists
Where
Grants
Companies
Appear
Actor
Actress
Now there is tons of information available online. 90% of students rarely look at magazines in their intended format because they're looking at them on a computer screen. They don't understand the layout, so when they come to putting their own portfolios together, they have no spatial awareness.
Louise Wilson
Together
Looking
Own
Awareness
Rarely
Magazines
Online
Computer
Layout
Computer Screen
Students
Putting
Come
Look
Because
Understand
Intended
Screen
Format
Information
Available
Them
Spatial
Now
Portfolio
Tons
American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.
Lynn Nottage
Borders
Rarely
Outside
Deal
Material
Audiences
Very
American
American Audiences
New York is so strange. Every time I'm there, I very rarely see someone who's dressed cool.
Maggie Rogers
Time
Strange
Every
Every Time
See
Rarely
Dressed
Someone
New
Very
York
New York
Cool
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
Malcolm Gladwell
Best
Consider
Our
Prestigious
Rarely
Institutions
Most
Always
Stop
Whether
Interest
The Saudi ideal of a woman is a religious mother who rarely ventures out: She shouldn't work with men, she should be completely covered, and she shouldn't go out alone to run errands.
Manal al-Sharif
Work
Alone
Woman
Mother
Men
Out
Run
Religious
Rarely
Ideal
She
Ventures
Go
Covered
Should
Who
Saudi
You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
Mandy Patinkin
You
Pay
Rarely
Shakespeare
Rent
Doing
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Marcel Proust
Love
Needs
Woman
Our
Rarely
Another
Deceive
Loves
Whom
Her
The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.
Margaret Heffernan
Secret
Hidden
Out
Rarely
Freely
Come
Blind
Witnessed
Biggest
Information
Available
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
Marilyn Ferguson
Nature
Progress
Important
Understanding
Incremental
Ways
Rarely
Seeing
Advances
New
Principles
Real
New Ways
Sudden
I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.
Mario Monti
Considered
Compliment
Rarely
Economists
Most
Always
Been
Italian
German
Which
Meant
Meant To Be
Among
Received
Most of the female 'superhero' role models of my childhood came from novels, and they rarely had powers. Take Dorothy, for example, from 'The Wizard of Oz;' or Laura Ingalls and her sisters in the 'Little House on the Prairie' novels.
Marjorie Liu
Example
Laura
Rarely
Superhero
Take
Had
For Example
Most
House
Powers
Female
Prairie
Wizard
Wizard Of Oz
Came
Role
Sisters
Role Models
Models
Childhood
Oz
Dorothy
Little
Novels
Her
My solo series, in some ways, have been rarely truly solo.
Marjorie Liu
Ways
Solo
Rarely
Some
Been
Truly
Series
The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.
Martha Stewart
Best
Good
Great
You
People
Big
Busy
Books
Way
Find
Rarely
Totally
Good Way
Smaller
Like
House
Occupied
Doing
Big House
Big One
Tiny
Spaces
Whether
Little
Prefer
Full
Used
Useful
Homes
Things
Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.
Martin Fleischmann
Time
You
Three
First
Community
Research
Topic
Recognizable
Rarely
Through
Takes
Idea
Implementation
Development
New
Like
Return
Around
First Time
New Idea
Very
Goes
Anything
Break
Two
Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.
Marvin Olasky
Regret
Those
Rarely
Give
Themselves
Who
I very rarely watch anybody swing. All I do is follow where the ball goes.
Matt Kuchar
Follow
Rarely
Ball
Very
Goes
Anybody
Where
Swing
Watch
I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it.
Matt Ridley
Time
Try
First
Back
Rarely
First Time
Go
Five
Times
Get
May
Rewrite
Sentence
Page
Whole
Right
Four
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