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Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.
Andrew Murray / Writer
Displacement
Humility
Self
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Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.
Angelo Sotira / Entrepreneur
Displacement
Listening
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Job displacement is so huge, I'm tempted to not talk about anything other than that.
Andrew Ng / Professor
Displacement
Tempted
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We have a moral responsibility to help veterans avoid homelessness and displacement.
Letitia James /
Displacement
Homelessness
Moral Responsibility
Veterans
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It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
Atom Egoyan / Stage Director
Abstract
Displacement
Moments
Television
Turns
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There are very few things that are certain in this market - apart from one, and that is that small displacement diesels are dead.
Sergio Marchionne / Executive
Displacement
Few Things
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Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.
Edin Dzeko /
Displacement
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The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
Alan Rosenberg / Actor
Actors
Displacement
Obstacles
Programming
Reality
Severe
Earn
Obstacle
Scripted
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As we double down on urgent issues of housing affordability, access, inequities and displacement, we must prioritize addressing climate change.
Ted Wheeler /
Access
Climate Change
Displacement
Housing
Prioritize
Urgent
Change Climate Climate Change
Change Must Climate
Addressing
Double
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I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.
Ana Castillo / Novelist
Chicago
Displacement
Whole Life
Asked
Psychologically
Sense
Spent
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I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
Will Self / Author
Displacement
Fiction
Remember
Writing
Everything Else
Myself Remember Always
Integral
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I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.
André Aciman / Writer
Ambivalence
Displacement
Evasion
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I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
Aleksandar Hemon / Writer
Constant
Displacement
Instability
Guaranteed
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
G. Willow Wilson / Writer
Displacement
Multiple
Rooted
Identities
Tug
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Cisco presents our biggest challenge in the firewall market for the fact that they have such a large percentage of market share. Displacement of an entrenched incumbent is always a challenge.
Ken Xie /
Displacement
Biggest Challenge
Entrenched
Incumbent
Large Percentage
Market Share
Percentage
Presents
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Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are always following the cues, like learning the dance steps when the dance is already under way.
Claire Messud / Novelist
Displacement
Following
Steps
Learning Always Me
Central
Learning Me Always
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In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
Walter Kohn / Physicist
Accurate
Displacement
Particular
Permanent
Threshold
Established
Reasonably
Smaller
Substantially
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I don't think it's different to be a black girl in England than it is to be a black girl from America. We all collectively share in a pain of displacement and not feeling like we quite belong in places.
Cynthia Erivo /
Displacement
Belong
Collectively
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One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.
Anand Giridharadas /
Displacement
Self Serving
Virtue
Clearest
Stayed
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The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Displacement
Multiple
Together
Zone
Authorities
Centers
Constitute
Stay
Disciplinary
Whatever
Marginal
Network
Participate
Point
Spawned
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Three months at Oxford persuaded me that it was not my home. I'm not English and I never will be. The life I have lived is one of partial displacement. I came to England as a means of escape, and it was a failure.
Stuart Hall /
Displacement
Oxford
Escape
Partial
Persuaded
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I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.
Deborah Copaken Kogan /
Clash
Constant
Danger
Direct
Displacement
Excitement
Intimate
Seeing
Miss
Direct Experience
Governments
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I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.
Amor Towles / Author
Age
Class
Displacement
Environment
Ethnicity
Gender
Social
Social Class
Myself Eyes Me
Little
Age Myself Me
Prefer
Through
Differs
Eyes
Look
Further
Makes
Put
Observer
Sharper
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
Mahmoud Abbas / Chairman Of The Palestine Liberation Organization
Courageous
Decades
Displacement
Homeland
Independent
Occupation
Sovereign
Ceaseless
Colonial
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I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.
Anya Taylor-Joy /
Displacement
London
Moved
Tough
Life Time Family
English
Life Family Time
Hoping
Refused
Same Time
Send
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For the Russians, the displacement of the Holocaust is calculated and cynical. It's not emotional; they don't care about the Holocaust one way or another. They only care about it insofar as they can use it to manipulate a German sense of guilt.
Timothy D. Snyder /
Cynical
Displacement
Don't Care
Guilt
Holocaust
Manipulate
German
Calculated
Russians
Insofar
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Even for the people in the bank into which the other banks are merging, they also have a lot of apprehension. There is always an apprehension that opportunities will go down. There are apprehensions of displacement. Many of these apprehensions are unfounded.
Arundhati Bhattacharya /
Apprehension
Displacement
Merging
Always People Will
Bank
Banks
People Always Will
For The People
People Will Always
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
Mahmoud Abbas / Chairman Of The Palestine Liberation Organization
Different
Displacement
Homeland
Millions
Palestine
Plight
Refuge
Rights
Suffering
Different Places
Forced
Places
Realize
Refugees
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Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or prowling the streets with a Dictaphone, and it's easy to convince yourself that you're working hard. Often, it can be an excuse not to work; a classic displacement activity.
Mark Billingham / Novelist
Classic
Convince
Displacement
Enemy
Excuse
Streets
Working Hard
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What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets. It is also bringing about disruptive change that is intensifying insecurity and may indeed lead to large-scale labor displacement.
Guy Standing /
Confidence
Displacement
Disruptive
Inequality
Labor
Revolution
Free
Bringing
Due
Free Markets
Indeed
Limit
Mechanisms
Mostly
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There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Claims
Displacement
Limits
Simple
Theory
Contingent
Cultural
Emerges
Event
Impure
Necessarily
Nor
Translation
Venue
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I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders. And, you know, I belong to so many places and belong to none of them at the same time, so there's this sense of displacement - I very much understand what it is to not fit in or belong somewhere.
Anya Taylor-Joy /
Displacement
Outsiders
Belong
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Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods. But man, every city I've looked at, Milwaukee included, most evictions are right there, smack dab in ungentrifying, poor, segregated communities.
Matthew Desmond /
Displacement
Milwaukee
Smack
Communities
Frame
Included
Segregated
Transitioning
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Three months after reaching the U.S., hurricane Sandy struck, and I had to spend four days in the university shelter. Though I have worked for projects on environment displacement in the past, it was the first time that I actually experienced one and understood how attached one can be to your regular shelter.
Padmapriya Janakiraman /
Displacement
Reaching
Sandy
Shelter
Time Past Your
Attached
Hurricane
Struck
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No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.
Muqtada Al Sadr / Iraqi Politician
War
Bombing
Conquer
Displacement
Ignite
Invading
Occupation
Rights
Savior
Speak
Terrorism
Torture
Weapons
Armies
Defender
Lethal
Lead
Prohibited
Suffer
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Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.
Stacy Schiff / Author
Displacement
Dubious
Holmes
Neutrality
Swiss
Tolerance
Touch
Version
Calls
Desk
Gifts
Richard
Lack
Proportions
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