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Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information. James Fenton
Memory Remember Aid Say Some Poem Poems Purpose Device Enable Information Rhyme Themselves Us Whole
Genes themselves are made of bits. James Gleick
Made Bits Genes Themselves
Patients have the right to help themselves. James Heywood
Patients Themselves Help Right
My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale. James Howard Kunstler
Me People Later Scale Rely No Question Sooner Sooner Or Later Ideas Renewable Issue Beef Question Going Them Themselves
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. James K. Polk
Government Great Passion Own Congress Members Seek Absolutely Votes Operations Greatly Very Office Offices Them Themselves Then Create Fill Among
In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence. James Monroe
Rights Seriously Matters Preparation Defence Relating Our Invaded Only Never Part Taken Powers Make Policy Does Any Themselves Wars European Resent Injuries
From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves. James Monroe
Made Country Several States Favorable Tribes Indian Purchases Been Erie Conditions Very Lake Themselves Lands Inhabiting Less United United States
Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves. James Nesbitt
Fall Distance Bits Some Category Parts Themselves Use Who Actor Play
It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves. James Payn
Class First Before Extraordinary Considerable Our Inquiry Entertained Must Be Careful Cases Various Point First Place Opinions How Pinch Very Quite Place Them Persons Themselves Who Eliminate Careful
My pub was full of get-rich-quick schemes that never worked - scams, pyramid schemes. People trying to find a way to get themselves out of a rut. James Purefoy
People Way Out Scams Find Rut Schemes Never Pyramid Get Trying Pub Themselves Worked Full
Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe. James Spader
Love Love Is Believe Emotion Allow Themselves Actor
A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will never meet. James Stephens
Man Woman Will Become Before Other Meet Intimate Parallel Minutes Never Almost Hour Quarter Lines Endeavour Quite May Which Explain Themselves Certainly Less Many Even Each
For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them. James Surowiecki
You People Words Smart Thinking Other Relatively Those Independent Following Diverse Rather Only Crowd Lead Also Around Than In Other Words Them Themselves Perspectives Speaking Each Need
Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation. James Surowiecki
Tough Times Tough Recipe Immigrants Case Highly Policies Always Times Stagnation Themselves Lent Sentiments Skilled
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance. James Surowiecki
People Vehemently Idea Insurance Conditions Deny Republicans Preexisting Themselves Should Used Congressional Defended
Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months. James Surowiecki
Construction Money Matter Once Months Those Destroyed City Remarkable Devastated Disasters Redistribution Insurance Insurance Companies Smoothly Replace Quickly Happen Regions Them Themselves Taxpayers Workers Who Companies Even Lived Reinventing
Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release. James Taylor
Work You Yourself Long Before Live Release Promote Impact Performance Make Because American Any Size Place Themselves Ages Away
The people in L.A. do orient themselves to light. I used to call it 'Tan Fascist Culture.' Everyone there is tanned, wears dark sunglasses, looks like a movie star even when they're not. James Turrell
Culture People Dark Light Everyone Sunglasses Wears Like Looks Call Tan Movie Movie Star Themselves Used Orient Even Fascist Star
The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves. James Welch
Funny Attitude Superior Society Kind Wealthy Indians Outside Had Toward Because Were Very Which Themselves Reservations
I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period. What would they eat? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they shelter themselves? How did they get around? James Welch
People Try Kind Would Wear Eat Lay Period Around How Shelter Historical Get Did Wander Clothing Land Themselves Lived Imagine
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. James Weldon Johnson
Old Negroes Songs Themselves Fully Slave Appreciate
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. James Wolcott
Reality Superior Fools Judgment Sit Strangers Down Carefully TV Easy Direction Only Feel Looks Make Him Edited Permit Intact Passivity Chicken Familiar Reality TV Themselves Viewer Her Watching Pampered Kept
If I have a connection with someone, I'd like to think that they'd be able to respect that connection enough and respect themselves enough to not care about my past - that they would want to see what happens between us. Jamie Clayton
Respect Care Past Think Enough Would See Able About Someone Between Like Want Happens Themselves Us Connection
I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves. Jamie Lee Curtis
Age Women Book Feeling Easier Bad About Shame Had Like Self-Esteem Make Shed Felt Doing Been Maybe Children Wanted Themselves Really Who
Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them? Jamie Zawinski
Old Changed System Out Someone Something Trivial New Operating Operating System Because Does Same Just Just Because Them Themselves Should Use Why Thing Basic Application
It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution. Jan Egeland
Time Conflict Problem Hide Political Old Fighting Every Other Every Time Meet Only Fact Leaders Learn Practices How Political Leaders Stop Themselves Each Peaceful Here Resolution
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