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Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block.
Jenna Blum / Writer
Block
Procrastination
Dreaded
Endemic
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I think the word 'twink' is pejorative. There's something endemic about the gay community where we praise masculinity more than anything else.
Olly Alexander /
Gay Community
Masculinity
Praise
Endemic
More Than Anything
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When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.
Harry Shearer / Actor
Introduction
Motion Pictures
Repetition
Waiting
Endemic
Motion
Pictures
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There's an ideology that's taken hold of universities, that has taken hold of elite establishments, that is committed to the myth of endemic white racism.
Heather Mac Donald /
Ideology
Myth
Racism
Elite
Endemic
Establishments
Universities
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I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.
Peter Shaffer / Playwright
Book
Moving
Soil
Writing
Writer
Endemic
Plays
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A short distance away from thriving city centres in virtually all of our cities, you will find areas of endemic worklessness, alienation, crime and antisocial behaviour.
Chris Grayling / British Politician
Alienation
Antisocial
Behaviour
Distance
Endemic
Thriving
Virtually
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Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.
Eric Alterman / Historian
Difficulty
Unpredictability
Mistakes
Endemic
Reliable
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It turns out that cholera is new to Haiti. It was inadvertently introduced by a group of U.N. peacekeepers stationed in central Haiti who had come from South Asia where it is endemic.
Christy Turlington / Fashion Model
Asia
Cholera
Haiti
South Asia
Turns
Central
Endemic
Inadvertently
Introduced
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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.
Molly Ivins / Columnist
Characteristics
Mankind
Thinking
Everywhere
Characteristic
Endemic
Particularly
Provincial
Striking
Tend
Texans
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Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.
Shelby Steele / Author
Age
History
Human Condition
Immorality
Racism
Scourge
Stupidity
Now
Against
Condition
Crowning
Endemic
Human
Guard
Recognized
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Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.
Mitch Landrieu / Mayor Of New Orleans
American Cities
Cities
Crime
Dramatically
Endemic
Histories
Major
Rates
Worse
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In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran /
Causes
Malaria
Mortality
Principal
Tropical
Endemic
Europeans
First Place
Obstacle
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Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
Pete Townshend / Musician
Sad
Brilliant
Class
Fertile
Hypocrisy
People
English
Difficulties
Endemic
English People
Incredibly
Ridden
Superior
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All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.
Vincent Bugliosi / Attorney
Allowance
Conspiracy
Errors
Humans
Incompetence
Latter
Levels
Mistakes
Endemic
Highest Levels
Room
Plain
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I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
Ben Stein / Actor
America
Income
People
Relative
School
Terrible
Trouble
United States Of America
Money People Way
Endemic
Main
Schools
Too Much Money
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All that is known for sure is that endometriosis is endemic and that it cannot be cured. Management is the best hope. This makes for treatments that are, if I am being polite, based on trial and error. If I am feeling less generous, they are shots in the dark.
Rose George / Journalist
Generous
Management
Trial And Error
Cured
Endemic
Error
Treatments
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As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.
Kathleen Troia Mcfarland /
Independence
East
Energy Independence
Middle East
Oil
Crises
Drawn
Endemic
Liberate
Price
Region
Worldwide
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Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.
Ron Fournier / Journalist
Kings
Abraham
Country
Economic
Journal
Left
Luther
Office
Oval
Painting
Sitting
Obama
Beneath
Bust
Washington
Endemic
George
Lincoln
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King
National
Oval Office
Right
Shoulder
Woes
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Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
American Politics
Crowded
Deny
Personal Life
Closet
Compromises
Endemic
Equally
Hoped
Strangers
Shadowy
Spent
Truths
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So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by two feet. The city has officially banned new wells and mandated the installation of pollution controls, but China's endemic corruption ensures that neither measure has much meaning.
Charles C. Mann / Journalist
Banned
Installation
Pollution
Dug
Endemic
Measure
Officially
Sunk
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On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.
Susanna Moore / Writer
Green
Mammals
Monk
Sea
Wildlife
Considered
Bat
Fish
Endangered
Endemic
Hawaiian
Included
List
Service
Sperm
Turtle
Whale
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Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is by no means confined to weak, feeble, or commonplace intellects; as history sadly records, its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts.
Paul Johnson / Journalist
Anti Semitism
Commonplace
Confined
Disease
Men And Women
Subtle
Weak
History Men Women
Endemic
Feeble
History Women Men
Highly
Included
Infectious
Societies
Sadly
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