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In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
Bob Barr
Government
Time
Generation
Communicate
Internet
Face
Invention
Single
Control
Every
Virtually
Earth
Topic
Ability
Given
Magnificent
Fellow
Fellow Human Beings
Globe
Without
Nook
Government Control
Person
Any
Done
Human
Human Beings
Beings
In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.
Bobbie Ann Mason
Culture
Our
Topic
Hidden
Emerged
Something
Rather
Shame
Than
Discussion
Legitimate
Vietnam
Compelling
There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn't be the reasons you listen to my music.
Brad Paisley
Music
Me
Gay
You
Marriage
People
Gun
Gay Marriage
Say
Topic
Those
Some
Someone
Particular
Know
Audience
Issue
Owner
Any
Listen
May
Who
Reasons
Agree
Things
One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.
Brene Brown
Hate
People
Better
Research
Guess
Topic
One Of The Things
Shame
Importance
Vulnerability
Because
Vulnerable
Discovered
Huge
Very
Than
Did
Moved
Being
Upside
Happily
Downer
Away
Things
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.
Bruce Feiler
Library
Writing
Topic
Out
About
Only
Had
Volume
Naive
Checked
Academic
WWII
Era
Public
Public Library
Publishing
Treatise
Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.
Bruce Feiler
Religion
Other
Topic
About
More
Almost
Know
Than
American
Any
When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to find that topic in Scripture. I was shocked that after college and graduate school I had no idea that Jesus Christ had talked so much about rewards.
Bruce Wilkinson
You
Bible
School
Christ
College
Other
Topic
Find
No Idea
About
Give
Factors
Students
Had
Idea
Talked
Shocked
Grades
Graduate
Graduate School
Rewards
After
Scripture
Much
Teach
Incentives
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Need
The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.
Caitlin Moran
You
Women
World
Abortion
Will
Three
Distaste
Topic
Embarrassed
Silent
About
Having
Never
Stuff
Talk
Because
Western
End
Up
Western World
Keep
Thing
Societal
Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
Carlos Ghosn
Down
Topic
Frankly
About
Stepping
Particular
Talking
Years
Five
Now
Actuality
I'm a Catholic, and not because I just happened to wake up as a Catholic. I'm not going to be persuaded on any topic, especially not that.
Chael Sonnen
Wake Up
Topic
Catholic
Because
Wake
Up
Any
Going
Just
Happened
Persuaded
Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.
Chris Hardwick
Life
Good
Training
Comedy
Looking
Thinking
Enough
Philosophy
Topic
See
Martin
Angles
Steve
Steve Martin
Forced
Because
Said
Up
Just
Being
Interesting
Your
Agree
It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.
Chris Milk
You
People
Think
Topic
Something
Weird
Talk
Around
Answers
Lot
Suddenly
Ted
When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?
Christina Baker Kline
You
Words
Opportunities
Few
Thinking
Type
Topic
Ways
Scan
Shakespeare
Miss
Expand
Unexpected
Land
Might
Your
Engine
Search
Search Engine
Specific
Play
Symbols
On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topic. My supervisor was Professor Harry Pitt, who was an excellent pure mathematician and probabilist.
Clive Granger
Degree
Pure
Harry
Completing
Topic
Statistics
About
Excellent
Supervisor
Knew
Although
Mathematician
Very
Pitt
Little
Who
Professor
Started
When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.
Clive Thompson
Birthday
You
Space
Fans
Own
Topic
Though
Easily
Favorite
Out
About
Only
Retain
New
Passionate
Subject
Truly
Off
Subjects
Expert
Then
Your
Works
Baseball
Players
No matter what poker book you read or poker show you watch, the topic of position will invariably be discussed and its importance stressed.
Daniel Negreanu
You
Book
Matter
Will
Topic
Invariably
Poker
Importance
Read
Discussed
Show
Watch
Stressed
Position
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.
David Chalmers
Overcome
Topic
Paradigm
Has-Been
Rigorous
Some
Attached
Neuroscience
Studying
New
Most
Within
Stigma
Been
Begin
Experimental
Psychology
Century
Helped
Consciousness
Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide must be such that people stop burning coal without capture.
David J. C. MacKay
Change
People
Single
Topic
Complex
Must
Solution
Solving
Price
Crude
Without
Climate
Climate Change
Stop
Burning
Coal
Capture
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Here
A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.
David Shields
Reality
Book
Lie
Writing
Treat
Focus
Lying
Appropriation
Topic
Hunger
Would
Would-Be
About
Major
Like
Terms
Without
Permitted
Being
Plagiarism
Mean
Engaging
Deeply
Hardly
Student loan debt is certainly not a fitting topic for a commencement speech, but it's an issue we must confront - not only for thousands of college graduates who deserve a fair shot, but also for our economy.
Dianne Feinstein
Loan
College
Our
Topic
Must
Thousands
Only
Student
Fair
Economy
Also
Issue
Commencement
Debt
Fitting
Graduates
Confront
Shot
Certainly
Who
Deserve
Speech
The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.
Edward Ball
People
Will
Topic
Touch
Like
React
Fence
Electric
Slavery
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
Edward Moore
You
Preach
Rich
Every
Topic
City
Find
Noble
Go
Affords
Tavern
Tis
Against
Congregation
Gaming
Rail
You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and all of a sudden the idea comes to you.
Edward P. Jones
You
Library
Shopping
Walk
Topic
Out
Pick
Idea
Along
Go
Bus
Sudden
Riding
I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.
Elliot Perlman
Life
Time
Dark
Remember
My Life
Older
Topic
Would
About
Something
More
Spoken
Know
Call
Got
Which
Holocaust
Really
Tones
Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
Eric Schmidt
Technology
Half
Google
Related
Topic
Licensing
Results
Ads
Come
Like
Another
Yahoo
Revenue
Revenues
Selling
Placed
Companies
Search
Near
Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.
Evan Davis
Economics
Topic
Hot
Irrationality
Behavioural
Human
Psychology
Cusp
Interestingly
Moment
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