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In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.
Robert J. Shiller
Remember
School
First
Few
Back
Worrying
Detroit
Fail
Edison
Years
Did
Grade
Might
Held
Poorly
Elementary
Elementary School
Second
For my new book 'Pirate Hunters', I follow John Chatterton and John Mattera, two world-class scuba divers, who teach themselves to think and act as pirates while searching for what would be only the second pirate ship ever found and positively identified.
Robert Kurson
Book
Think
World-Class
Positively
Hunters
Would
Would-Be
John
Follow
Divers
Only
New
New Book
Identified
Ship
Pirate
Pirates
While
Themselves
Scuba
Act
Teach
Who
Searching
Found
Ever
Second
Two
Unlike national legal systems, there are precious few avenues to address judicial activism at the WTO. You pretty much have to gain consensus to change the agreements, or simply withdraw from the system. The first is nearly impossible, and the second would be - in the view of many - cataclysmic.
Robert Lighthizer
You
Change
Legal
Impossible
First
National
Few
Unlike
Address
System
Systems
Would
Would-Be
Pretty
Cataclysmic
Simply
Withdraw
Judicial
Precious
Gain
Avenues
Much
View
Many
Agreements
Activism
Nearly
Second
Consensus
GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.
Robert Love
You
Communication
Communicate
Slow
Three
Channel
Bits
Per
Because
Very
Duration
Expensive
Satellites
Extended
Four
Second
Need
We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.
Robert Mugabe
Will
First
Responses
Would
Would-Be
Step
Openly
First Step
Said
Get
Done
Owners
Inform
Land
Designate
Second
For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.
Robert Preston
Best
Man
Wonderful
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Spot
Without
Hobbies
Hobby
Where
Poor
Stand
Second
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
Robert Rainy
Life
Great
World
Value
Manners
Separation
Christian
Prohibited
Marriages
More
Martyrdom
Higher
Had
Great Value
Were
Celibacy
Pitch
Them
Strained
Required
Standard
Christian Life
Second
Fasting
Set
Careful
Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing.
Robert Scoble
You
Become
Once
One Thing
Easy
Known
Thing
Second
Fourth
Third
Post fast on good news or bad. Someone say something bad about your product? Link to it - before the second or third site does - and answer its claims as best you can.
Robert Scoble
Best
Good
News
You
Post
Good News
Before
Say
Claims
Bad
About
Someone
Something
Answer
Does
Link
Site
Product
Your
Fast
Second
Third
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Robert Staughton Lynd
Time
Birthday
World
Remember
Own
Sun
Risen
Most
Us
Second
Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.
Robert Webb
War
Age
World
Parents
Fools
Kinds
Towards
Candidates
Noticed
Who
Many
Fascism
Fought
Second
World War
Second World War
My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.
Robert Wilkie
Life
Home
Army
Experience
Father
Mind
Half
Year
Own
Changed
My Own
Recovery
Hospitals
Tour
Weighed
He
Almost
Combat
Come
Returned
Came
His
Left
Than
Did
After
Asked
Vietnam
Less
Agonizing
VA
Second
Watched
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.
Robert Winston
Love
Moving On
Good
Mother
Try
Father
Husband
Move On
Believe
Too
Nine
Saw
Way
Fine
Through
Had
He
She
Trait
Died
Move
Process
Grieving
Moving
Regretting
Should
Mum
Deeply
Her
Second
I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
Robert Wyatt
Thoughts
You
Amazing
Down
Appropriate
Paper
Those
Pencil
Know
Piece
How
Pin
Quite
Just
Really
Sequence
Many
Second
Number
Need
In what was called the second siege of Leningrad, thousands died, but Putin and his partners in crime got rich. Then Putin killed even more Russians when he had the FSB explode bombs in apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999 to give himself the pretext to seize dictatorial powers.
Robert Zubrin
Crime
Rich
Siege
Thousands
Pretext
Give
Russians
More
Seize
Had
He
Putin
Moscow
Powers
Himself
Partners
Buildings
Got
His
Dictatorial
Died
Apartment
Explode
Then
Even
Bombs
Second
My mother has the same kind of an arm, even today at 74. She could throw a ball from second base to home plate with something on it. I got my arm from my mother.
Roberto Clemente
Today
Home
Mother
Kind
Something
Could
Throw
Arm
She
Ball
Got
Same
Home Plate
Plate
Even
Base
Second
After you win a Premier League, the second year is more difficult.
Roberto Mancini
You
Win
Year
Difficult
More
League
After
Premier
Premier League
Second
When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.
Robin Leach
Me
People
Better
Wait
Thought
Think
Thinking
Interview
Immediate
Silent
Give
Give Me
Because
Answer
Answering
Train
Often
Keep
Second
I got a degree in broadcast journalism at Northwestern but was running a sketch-comedy group and then went to Second City. When the writers' strike happened in 2007-2008, I went to work at E! because I had that background.
Robin Thede
Work
Degree
Group
Broadcast
Strike
Background
Running
City
Writers
Had
Journalism
Because
Got
Northwestern
Happened
Then
Second
Second City
Midfielders, on average, get somewhere between half a second and a second to think before they have to move the ball on. For strikers, however, it is significantly less: between 0.1 and 0.2 of a second before a defender is on them.
Robin Van Persie
Somewhere
Half
Before
Think
Between
Ball
However
Get
Move
Them
Average
Less
Second
Defender
I want that second World Series ring. I want to win again.
Robinson Cano
World
Win
Ring
Want
Again
Series
Second
World Series
The city of Seattle has become my second home for my family and I.
Robinson Cano
Home
Family
Become
City
Seattle
Second
Second Home
Back when I first came up with the Twins as a second baseman, Billy worked with me on my fielding, on playing the game, on being heads-up, hustling, always doing my best, not alibiing. And when he was the Twins' manager, I enjoyed playing for him.
Rod Carew
Best
Me
Game
First
Back
Hustling
He
Him
Always
Doing
Came
Up
Manager
Being
Worked
Billy
Baseman
Enjoyed
Twins
Second
Playing
I don't take a second for granted of the honor of representing country music.
Rodney Atkins
Music
Honor
Country
Take
Country Music
Representing
Granted
Second
I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife.
Roger Stone
Wife
Met
Never
Until
Owned
Blue
Blue Jeans
Jeans
Pair
Second
I live on a plane. I like to visit London. If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice, and second would be New York. In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.
Roman Abramovich
People
First
Live
Difficult
Think
Kids
Visit
Would
Would-Be
London
Brought
Russia
Could
Had
Feel
New
Moscow
Like
Most
Comfortable
Understand
Up
Snow
York
New York
Where
Different
Want
Plane
Choice
Used
Seasons
Play
Four
Second
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