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I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.
Sara Blakely / Businesswoman
Admitting
Convince
Uncomfortable
Wonder
No Wonder
Product
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One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away.
Mike Huckabee / Former Governor Of Arkansas
Running
Access
Cost
Governors
Health Care
Health Care System
Levels
Medicaid
Romance
Running Away
Unlimited
Wonder
Alike
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Republicans
No Wonder
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Since I joined Congress, I've been shocked at how many times we were forced to vote on 1,000-plus-page bills without ample time to read or review what was in the final legislation. It's no wonder Congress doesn't enact good policy.
Erik Paulsen / United States Representative
Bills
Legislation
Shocked
Ample
Enact
Final
Forced
How Many Times
Joined
No Wonder
Review
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Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.
Doug Henning / Magician
Credibility
Liberty
Statue Of Liberty
Attempted
No Wonder
Statue
Stretched
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich / Actress
Love
Respect
Women
Men
Compass
Long
Wonder
Life Women Man
Life Respect Man
Life Women Respect
Loved
Woman
Discontented
Master
Him
No Wonder
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It triggers something in you as a human being because you forget what your parents did for you. But when you become a parent, you're like, 'Whoa! It's hard work.' No wonder your parents always tell you off! They've done a lot for you.
Mo Farah /
Hard Work
Parent
Triggers
Work Hard Work Parents
No Wonder
Whoa
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Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.
Greg Graffin / Musician
Belief
Catchy
Debate
General Public
Our Time
Phrases
God Time Science
Comprehend
Unfortunately
God Science Time
No Wonder
Reduced
Thereof
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It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.
Nick Denton / Journalist
Deserve
Staffing
Wonder
Apologize
Daily
Expedition
No Wonder
Ventures
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The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.
Amitabh Bachchan / Film Actor
Amount
Body
Phenomenal
Religious
Remarkable
Way
Wonder
Became
Happening
No Wonder
Ways
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I think smartphones are one of humanity's most remarkable creations: computers are amazing enough, but a supercomputer you can carry in your pocket and communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere... it's no wonder they're troublingly addictive.
John Lanchester / Journalist
Computers
Communicate
Remarkable
Addictive
Creations
Instantly
No Wonder
Pocket
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard / Philosopher
Backwards
Bored
Bores You
Evil
Human Beings
Roots
Wonder
Since
Advances
Beginning
Beings
Created
Goes
No Wonder
Root
Spreads
Therefore
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Ed Sheeran is a good mate of mine, and he just flies around the place doing every single bit of promo or gig or interview, and it's no wonder that when you combine that with immense talent that he's playing in stadiums and arenas around the world.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Immense
Stadiums
Good World Talent
Arenas
Combine
Ed Sheeran
Flies
Gig
Interview
Mate
No Wonder
Promo
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As a nation, we are not good at long-term planning, and no wonder: Our political system insists that every president be allowed to appoint thousands of new officials, including the kinds of officials who think about pandemics. Why is that necessary?
Anne Applebaum / Journalist
Long Term
Officials
Planning
Appoint
Insists
No Wonder
Political System
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If I wasn't an actress, I'd like to cook. I'm pretty obsessed by it. Rome was great in that sense, going to amazing cookery bookshops. No wonder their food is good because the quality and wide range of their produce is so good. It's not fair, really.
Polly Walker /
Quality
Amazing
Cookery
Not Fair
Obsessed
Produce
Range
Rome
Wide
Wonder
Good Food Great
Cook
Good Great Food
Fair
No Wonder
Wide Range
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
Isabel Allende / Writer
Age
Ancient
Ancient Times
Catholic
Chile
Conservative
End Of The World
Feminist
Term
Wonder
Heck
No Wonder
Patriarchal
Raging
Reached
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Anne Marie Schubert is one of the most horrible district attorneys in the state of California. She represents Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions. It's no wonder she continuously refuses to hold the police accountable for violence against people of color.
Shaun King / Football Player
Horrible
Marie
Schubert
Accountable
Anne
Attorneys
District
Continuously
Donald
Donald Trump
Jeff
No Wonder
Refuses
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I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.
Diana Quick / Actress
Ancestry
Exotic
Indian
Cast
Discovered
Greeks
Gypsies
Revolutionaries
No Wonder
Princesses
Russian
Talked
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When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.
William Hague / British Politician
Careers
Lord
Party
Sorry
Thinking
Wonder
Chancellor
Donations
Heads
No Wonder
Violates
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My dad has some depressive issues, and he's really tough on himself. So sometimes he can say things that are not super supportive. Like once I did a set, and he says, 'Sheesh, no wonder you're still single.' I was like, 'Eight ball, corner pocket, dad.'
Maria Bamford / Comedian
Depressive
Eight
Supportive
Wonder
Corner
No Wonder
Pocket
Super
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My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.
Grace Jones / Singer
Kings
Dad
Father
Mum
Musical
Pianist
Theatrical
Touring
Wonder
Creature
Explosive
Mixture
No Wonder
Whereas
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Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I've always loathed. If I didn't finish my meat, I had to sit with it for most of the afternoon. No wonder I'm a vegetarian now.
Celia Imrie / Film Actress
Afternoon
Dread
Meat
People
Sunday
Love Always People
Love People Always
Finish
No Wonder
Sundays
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
Walter Kirn / Novelist
Criminals
Gun
Legislation
Owners
Presidential
Touchy
Waiting
Bad Guy
Border
Cross
Executive
No Wonder
One Morning
Suddenly
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The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection.
Mark Carwardine / Columnist
Famous
Destination
Impossible
Inspiration
Islands
Natural
Natural Selection
Selection
Sheer
Theory
Wonder
World
Almost
Charles
Darwin
Exaggerate
Place
No Wonder
Provided
Spectacle
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It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.
Evan Davis / Economist
Effectiveness
Operations
Profitable
Reducing
Relation
Tempting
Too Much
Wonder
Scale
Bank
Banks
Borrow
Capital
Cushion
Effect
Lend
No Wonder
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As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
Erik Qualman / Author
Running
Technology
Dominant
Heavy
Media
Social Media
Wonder
Chief
Facebook
No Wonder
Officer
Operating
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Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
Dee Dee Myers / Former White House Press Secretary
Birthday
Smile
Men
Children
Nursing
Profession
Variables
Wonder
Education Men Women
Dominated
Gap
No Wonder
Status
Substantially
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When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
William Hague / British Politician
Cynical
Offence
Prime Minister
Telling Lies
Wonder
Cabinet
Constitutional
Lies
Minister
No Wonder
Sacked
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In music, on stage and on screen, fairy tales have always been guaranteed moneymakers. It's no wonder then, that in these difficult economic times, there are fairy tales everywhere you turn. From 'Once Upon a Time' and 'Grimm,' to 'Mirror, Mirror' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman.'
Alethea Kontis / Writer
Music
Difficult
Economic
Fairy
Snow
Snow White
Stage
Tales
White
Wonder
Everywhere
Time Mirror Always
Time Music Difficult
Economic Times
Times
Fairy Tales
Guaranteed
Mirror
No Wonder
Screen
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The photograph of the Queen sitting stiffly across the table from Glasgow resident Susan McCarron is so natural and expressive that it looks utterly fake. It looks like an artist's portrait, complete with symbolism, humour and poignancy. No wonder the palace and the press have interpreted it in such different ways.
Amanda Foreman /
Different Ways
Expressive
Fake
Glasgow
Humour
Photograph
Poignancy
Symbolism
Queen
Interpreted
No Wonder
Palace
Portrait
Resident
Susan
Utterly
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Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.
Mark Hyman /
Average
Doctors
Medicare
Pain
Patient
Physicians
Six
Stomach
Training
Wonder
Joint
No Wonder
Refer
Trained
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It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Obamacare
Prayer
Symbolic
Advocate
Blindly
No Wonder
Push
Violate
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The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along with information theory. DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most advanced message processor at the cellular level - an alphabet and a code, 6 billion bits to form a human being.
James Gleick / Author
Alphabet
Bits
Body
Cellular
Code
Dna
Form
Genetics
Information
Quintessential
Theory
Wonder
Advanced
Along
Billion
Brains
Cell
Itself
Human Being
Level
Message
Memory
Molecule
No Wonder
Resides
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If working remotely is such a great idea, why isn't everyone doing it? I think it's because we've been bred on the idea that work happens from 9 to 5, in offices and cubicles. It's no wonder that most who are employed inside that model haven't considered other options, or resist the idea that it could be any different. But it can.
Jason Fried / Entrepreneur
Employed
Great Idea
Happens
Wonder
Inside
Work Great Doing
Considered
Bred
Work Great Happens
Model
No Wonder
Offices
Options
Resist
Remotely
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Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently.
Amity Shlaes / Author
Agony
Appreciated
Average
Blame
Reputation
Wonder
Damaged
Do Your Best
No Wonder
Partly
Permanently
Policies
Suffer
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I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you're a Christian you've got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It's no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that's going to go, 'Yeah, give me some of that?'
Joyce Meyer / Author
Attitude
Attractive
Christian
Christianity
Color
Do You Know
Give Me
Mean
Western
Western Culture
Wonder
Yeah
Wear
How Many People
No Wonder
So Many People
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I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.
Parker Posey / Film Actress
Chopping
Dirt
Gun
Mass
Morocco
Tomatoes
Traveled
Appeal
Cave
Holding
No Wonder
Van
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