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It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
Alan Shepard
Government
Safety
Space
Feeling
Determined
Factor
Bidder
Contract
Up
Very
Sobering
Realize
Lowest
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
Tom Lehrer
Age
Thought
Had
He
Dead
Been
Years
Sobering
Mozart
Two
Commencement Day has a sobering finality in that it's the end of the prescribed path.
Steve Blank
Day
Path
Finality
Commencement
End
Sobering
Prescribed
The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
Jane Fonda
Age
Reality
Will
Girl
Three
Become
Year
Before
States
Per
More
Than
Sobering
Pregnant
United
United States
I'm doing what Democrats said we needed to coming out of 2016, after that sobering defeat, which is to build a bench, to usher fresh faces and new voices and new ideas.
Ayanna Pressley
Build
Defeat
Bench
Out
Faces
Voices
New
Ideas
Democrats
Fresh
Said
New Ideas
Coming
Doing
After
Which
Sobering
Usher
Needed
It's sobering to think of the seventeen chief justices; certainly a solid majority of them have to be characterized as failures. The successful ones are hard to number.
John Roberts
Think
Seventeen
Solid
Characterized
Failures
Majority
Chief
Justices
Sobering
Them
Successful
Hard
Certainly
Number
There are more players on 'Fallout Shelter' than all of my games combined. That's a little sobering at times. It's not a good or bad thing.
Todd Howard
Good
Bad
More
Bad Thing
Combined
Shelter
Fallout
Times
Than
Sobering
Little
Games
Thing
Players
The most sobering thing is to have a number one record across the whole entire world in all languages.
Billy Paul
World
Record
Entire
Entire World
Most
Sobering
Across
Languages
Whole
Thing
Number
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
Michael Eisner
Life
Good
Experience
Life Experience
More
Failing
Does
Sobering
Succeeding
Much
Really
Enlightening
It's sobering to realize that there's a huge chunk of the U.S. voting population that doesn't think of sexual assault as something horrendous enough to disqualify a presidential candidate.
Ana Kasparian
Voting
Think
Enough
Presidential
Chunk
Sexual
Horrendous
Something
Huge
Candidate
Sobering
Realize
Assault
Population
I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.
Rob Reiner
Future
Reality
Parents
First
Our
Parenthood
Know
Because
How
Exhausting
Years
Truly
Forever
Depends
Children
Sobering
Us
Last
Military history is essential to understanding any history and, moreover, is a terrifying and sobering study in the realities of human nature - for yes, to me, such a thing exists, and history indeed proves it.
Lawrence Osborne
Nature
Me
History
Understanding
Human Nature
Military
Indeed
Moreover
Study
Terrifying
Proves
Exists
Yes
Any
Essential
Human
Sobering
Realities
Such A Thing
Thing
I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.
Andre Previn
Music
Experience
Better
Healthy
Constantly
Invariably
Had
Performance
Than
Any
Sobering
Working
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
Jane Wagner
Thought
Living
Potential
Am
Up
Very
What If
Sobering
Full
Full Potential
Moment
It's certainly sobering to think that British consumers waste roughly a quarter of the food we buy. Or to put it another way, we funnel £12 billion a year from the supermarket through to our rubbish tips, costing each household an average of £480.
Tristram Stuart
Buy
Food
Year
Think
Rubbish
Our
Way
Costing
Supermarket
Through
Consumers
Put
Household
Another
Another Way
Quarter
Tips
Sobering
Average
Certainly
Billion
Each
Roughly
Waste
British
You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.
Bill Kurtis
You
Yourself
Money
First
Lose
Before
Beginning
Meet
Say
Borrow
More
Know
Couple
Well
Real
Years
Up
Maybe
In The Beginning
Sobering
Should
Working
Your
Payroll
Keep
Fast
Night
Sleep