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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Edward Abbey / Author
Education
Darkness
Flooding
Illumination
Light
Study
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When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.
Carmen Electra / Model
Flooding
Happens
Insecurity
Insecurities
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Flooding is the most urgent issue that Houstonians are facing.
Dan Crenshaw /
Flooding
Urgent
Facing
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Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.
Andrew Cuomo / Governor Of New York
New York
Damage
Flooding
New York New York
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Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
Anthony Kiedis / Singer-Songwriter
Empty
Energy
Flooding
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I like buying people little things, not flooding them with money, trying to win them.
Craig David / Singer-Songwriter
Buying
Flooding
Little Things
Money People Win
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You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.
Russel Honore /
Home
America
Flooding
Years
Event
Homes
Lose
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China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.
Virginia Foxx / U.s. Representative
Jobs
China
Economy
Flooding
Manufacturing
Crippling
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Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.
Dana Boente /
Enforcement
Flooding
Law Enforcement
Social Media
Unprecedented
Airwaves
Just Kind
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We need to reduce carbon emissions, protect Maine's key industries and preserve our coastlines from flooding and rising sea levels.
Sara Gideon /
Carbon
Emissions
Flooding
Levels
Maine
Sea
Industries
Preserve
Reduce
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What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.
Jim Sensenbrenner / United States Representative
Flooding
Illegal
Illegal Immigrants
Immigrants
Not Fair
Fair
Permits
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Way before musicians and actors cornered the market on misbehavior, writers were flooding hotel rooms and testing their livers' upper limits.
Andrew Shaffer /
Cornered
Flooding
Hotel
Hotel Rooms
Rooms
Upper
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There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.
Rose Byrne / Film Actress
Attention
Compliment
Flooding
Giving
Intensity
Compliments
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I thought, 'What if I were 17, and it was my small town of Springhill, Louisiana? How would I feel if people started flooding in to see some bird?'
John Corey Whaley / Writer
Bird
Flooding
Louisiana
Small Town
What If
People Feel See
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Flooding is the costliest and most common cause of property damage, which is why federal flood insurance should be affordable and accessible to all.
Seth Moulton /
Affordable
Damage
Flood
Flooding
Common Cause
Insurance
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We have seen levee breaks and flooding in the wake of storms, some of which have caused the loss of life, and USDA is ready to assist in any way we can.
Sonny Perdue / Former Governor Of Georgia
Flooding
Loss
Caused
Assist
Breaks
Storms
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The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of it.
John Holdren / Professor
Ocean
Currents
Flooding
Packs
Patterns
Snow
Storm
Temperature
Droughts
Winds
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How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched hypocrisies.
William Morris / Artist
Barbarism
Flooding
Wretched
World Me More
Consoles
However
Once More
Passions
Rudimentary
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Simply switching to a healthy, plant-based diet can lessen stroke risk by reducing cholesterol and blood pressure, flooding your body with antioxidants and improving blood flow.
Michael Greger / Physician
Diet
Blood
Blood Pressure
Flooding
Healthy
Improving
Pressure
Reducing
Risk
Switching
Your Body
Diet Your Body
Simply
Lessen
Stroke
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Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.
Frances Beinecke /
Flooding
Green
Pavement
Proven
Roadside
Sewage
Sidewalk
Streets
Absorb
Gardens
Reduce
Systems
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Foreign distribution is a major aspect of financing films. If you're flooding an entire country with cam rips DVDs before the movie is released, that will affect the bottom line eventually.
Lexi Alexander /
Aspect
Bottom
Bottom Line
Distribution
Financing
Flooding
Affect
Cam
Released
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When I write about things, it's a lot to do with sense memory. How things smell and taste can bring incredible memories flooding back and transport you in an instant to another time and place.
Sophie Dahl / Author
Another Time
Flooding
Instant
Smell
Transport
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I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroachment.
Steve Southerland / Former U.s. Representative
Barriers
Boundaries
Federal Government
Flooding
Government Believe I Believe
Banks
Unfortunately
Raging
River
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People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
Keith Henson / Writer
Behaviour
Chemicals
Flooding
Generations
Long
Long Term
People
Short Term
Years
Acts
Brains
Leads
Pleasurable
Repeat
Reward
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Flooding the mails with ballots is an invitation for voter fraud and chaos on Election Day. There is a danger of votes being lost, tampered with and, frankly, not counted by overwhelmed election officials.
Tom Fitton / Activist
Ballots
Chaos
Danger
Election Day
Flooding
Officials
Overwhelmed
Counted
Frankly
Invitation
Tampered
Voter
Votes
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Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100.
Jochen Zeitz /
Claims
Cutting
Damage
Flooding
Forests
Timber
Count
Insurance
Prices
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When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.
Julia Cameron / Teacher
Home
Book
Distinguished
Flooding
Memoir
Writing
Old Enough
Suggested
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The Hunting Bayou and Greens Bayou watersheds have experienced major flooding over the years and are crying out for investment to protect the hundreds of thousands of residents and businesses in those areas.
Gene Green / U.s. Representative
Flooding
Investment
Residents
Crying
Experienced
Greens
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
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The best way to shine a light on all of this 'dark money' flooding into our elections would be for Congress to pass legislation requiring all organizations to disclose their political spending in a timely manner.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Best Way
Flooding
Legislation
Timely
Disclose
Manner
Requiring
Shine
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Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos, until you're just unable to focus.
Yuval Noah Harari /
Funny
Amount
Cat
Censorship
Flooding
Focus
Hiding
Immense
Information
Irrelevant
Misinformation
Just
Works
Until
Longer
Unable
Videos
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Michael Bennet can't possibly understand the impact of flooding our job market with workers that aren't citizens of this country, and when we fight, they call us racist. When did wanting to feed your family become racist?
Darryl Glenn /
Flooding
Workers
Family Fight Your
Feed
Michael
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I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?
Peter Wright / Author
Colour
Flooding
Improvisation
Looks
Outcomes
Painting
Me Look Start
Front
Marks
Outcome
Subject
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As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.
James Gleick / Author
Complaining
Flooding
Human Thought
Philosophy
Printing Press
Change Good People
Necessarily
Press
Soon
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That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.
Anna Lindh / Swedish Politician
Assistance
Catastrophe
Couple
Fighting
Flooding
Guides
Helicopters
Instance
Resources
Years
Years Ago
Couple Of Years Ago
Local
Properly
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Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
Rahm Emanuel / Mayor Of Chicago
Chicago
Department
Flooding
Gun
Handful
Police
Police Department
Stores
Streets
Weapons
Accountable
Guns
Introduced
Modeled
Recovered
Representative
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We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.
Frei Otto / Architect
Big Problems
Every Man
Flooding
Foolish
Self Made
Duties
Earthquake
Possibilities
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It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.
Mary Mcaleese / Former President Of Ireland
Aspect
Flooding
Generations
Ireland
Progress
Reconciliation
Years
Women Are
Accident
Talents
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Indeed
Pass
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People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party... challenging incumbents, flooding the phone lines. What they're not so much familiar with, and what I want to expand, is 'the carrot.' So when a Mitch McConnell, or when a Republican caucus stands firm... we have to reward them.
Niger Innis / Spokesperson
Caucus
Familiar
Firm
Flooding
Tea
Tea Party
Carrot
Expand
Stick
Reward
Stands
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Addressing climate change globally promotes health, education and gender equality. Addressing it domestically secures U.K. jobs and sustainable clean economic growth; it protects communities from flooding and the scandal of fuel poverty. It begins to see clean air flow in our cities and schools.
Barry Gardiner /
Equality
Clean Air
Climate Change
Economic Growth
Flooding
Fuel
Scandal
Addressing
Begins
Sustainable
Protects
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I was living out on Long Island in Baldwin, New York when Hurricane Sandy hit. With the storm surge, the whole first floor of our house was under about three feet of water. We lost a lot of valuable stuff - sentimental stuff like pictures and Christmas ornaments. Nobody expected flooding that bad.
Chris Weidman / Mixed Martial Artist
Flooding
Long Island
Sandy
Sentimental
Storm
Valuable
Surge
Island
Hurricane
Ornament
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Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.
Natasha Trethewey / Poet
Drinking
Drinking Water
Flooding
Infrastructure
Isolated
Streets
Arrival
Casino
Contaminated
Frequent
Incorporated
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It has been popular to threaten 'small islands and low-lying coasts' with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.
Nils-Axel Morner / University Professor
Analysis
Careful
Flooding
Islands
Scenarios
Sea
Target
Actual
Rise
Centuries
Disastrous
Present
Popular
Threaten
Undertaken
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There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.
Kris Carr / Film Actor
Great
Body
Clean
Dirty
Doctors
Eating
Fats
Flooding
Healthy
Metaphor
Nuts
Oxygen
Sick
Swimming
Vitamins
Water
Am
Fish
Cleaned
Gets
Greens
Organic
Raw
System
Tank
Uses
Vet
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In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
California
Civilized
Coast
Democratic
East
East Coast
Flooding
Louisiana
Mean
Midwest
People
Vermont
Case
Nation
Hurricane
Tornado
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My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.
Jesmyn Ward / Novelist
Family
Fighting
Flooding
Grandmother
House
Hurricane Katrina
Left
Refuge
Shelter
Water
White
Category
Open
Breaking
Them
Were
Could
Demolished
Entire
Field
Saw
Help
Hurricane
Over
Town
Refused
Searching
Something
Survive
Took
Trucks
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