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A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
John Updike
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Novelist
Choices
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Particular
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Writing
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Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.
Monica Johnson
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Committed
Flesh
Mercy
Particular
Repentance
Sin
Forth
Repeated
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When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country of our ancestors. Because Haiti is an island, the beach is everywhere. Haitians are particular, even snobby, about beaches.
Roxane Gay
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Writer
Beach
Haiti
Haitian
Particular
Snobby
Summer
Everywhere
Me Parents Know
Ancestors
Me Parents Country
Beaches
Brothers
Island
Took
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We don't sulk with everybody. We limit our sulks to a very particular person: the person who's supposed to love us and understand us. And we make this equation that if you love me, you're supposed to understand me even if I don't explain what's wrong.
Alain De Botton
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Writer
Particular
Love Me Love Me
Love Me Person
Understand
Love Me
Wrong
Equation
Explain
Limit
Supposed
To Love
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I think what I'm gonna do is keep being international and not being grounded to any one particular thing. As long as I'm entertaining people in one way or another and maintaining some sort of adventurous life with my family in tow, then I'll be happy.
Rhys Darby
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Actor
Adventurous
Entertaining
Grounded
International
Maintaining
Particular
Tow
Life Family Long
Be Happy
Entertaining People
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso
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Painter
Artist
Insecurity
Pain
Particular
Inside
Exist
Photo
Front
Painted
Particular Way
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I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.
Neale Donald Walsch
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Author
Dogma
Paradigm
Particular
Spiritual
Spirituality
Steps
Thinking
Better Will New
Based
Better New Will
Planet
Such A Thing
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It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
Eknath Easwaran
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Author
Crisis
Incidents
Particular
Life Future Experience
Wait
Great Deal
Relationships
Tells
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One thing that we have found over the years is that video games themselves are a thing that have a tendency to be difficult for them to break out of a particular segment, or a particular group, or a particular group of people with particular interests.
Satoru Iwata
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Businessman
Break
Games
Particular
Video
Group
Interests
Segment
Tendency
Video Games
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A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.
Anthony Marra
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Writer
Capable
Conflict
Descent
Humanity
Men And Women
Monsters
Novel
Particular
Nature Men Women
Nature Women Men
Grant
Incomprehensible
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Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
Dan Chaon
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Writer
Eye
Fiction
Particular
Rhetoric
Thinking
Trying
Ask
Actually
Life Thinking World
Useful
Empathize
Experienced
Eyes
Image
Particular Kind
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Palliative care is something that you don't know you need until you're in the space where you need it, either from someone who has a terminal disease, like my mother, or for people who live with chronic disease and have particular issues that need care.
Jacky Rosen
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Disease
Particular
Chronic
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There's a certain amount of pressure that comes from playing real people. It's a pressure to deliver something fair and right to the real person and any living relatives. But generally, it's a joy, as you get to target your interest on a particular era.
Lydia Leonard
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Amount
Certain
Interest
Joy
Particular
People
Pressure
Real
Real Person
Target
Person
Living
Get
Any
You
Deliver
Era
Fair
Generally
Playing
Right
Real People
Relatives
Something
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I signed up for 'Brothers & Sisters' because I think it's a really great show. I like my character, and I'm really interested in what he has to do every day - and this cast is so spectacular. I really wanted to work with this particular group of people.
Rob Lowe
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Film Actor
Particular
Spectacular
Work Great Character
Brothers
Sisters
Cast
Great Show
Group
Signed
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Stock market goes up or down, and you can't adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment.
John Paulson
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Manager
Attention
Investment
Noise
Particular
Pay
Pay Attention
Stay True
Surround
Adjust
Any
True
Based
Portfolio
Could
Stay
Down
Goes
Market
Whims
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Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.
Daphne Oz
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Author
Diet
Fitness
Adequate
Appropriate
Balanced
Critical
Developing
Lifestyle
Needs
Nutrition
Particular
Resilience
Absolutely
Establishing
Healthful
Mental
Proper
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I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.
Herb Ritts
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Photographer
Assignments
Feelings
Garage
Light
Needed
Particular
School
Picture
Shot
Camera
Street
Techniques
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The young people I work with every day and serve the nation in the armed forces in general, and the Marine Corps in particular, have broken the mold and stepped out as men and women of character who are making their own way in life while protecting ours.
John F. Kelly
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Armed Forces
Broken
Character
Marine
Marine Corps
Men And Women
Mold
Particular
Young
Life Work Men
Life Work Women
Armed
General
Nation
Corps
Every Day
Forces
Making
Ours
Protecting
Serve
Stepped
While
Young People
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The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.
Noam Chomsky
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Linguist
Chance
America
Former
Intervention
Islands
Latin
Latin America
Luxury
Misery
Particular
Sea
Subjugation
Survived
Violence
Overcome
Before
Better Chance
Centuries
Colonies
Ever
Far
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I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue, a lot of their characteristics, a lot of their personality in a writer's eyes, is kind of propelled through their ethnicity.
Corey Reynolds
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Theatre Actor
Characteristics
Dialogue
Particular
Television
Writer
Younger
Ethnic
Eyes
Minority
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If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.
Guido Van Rossum
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Computer Programmer
Funny
Common
Fit
Java
Language
Particular
Point Of View
Python
Talking
Views
Amongst
Funny Thing
Point
Restricted
View
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Basically, I see myself as a maker of things who knows how to support other makers of things. At the end of the day, I am just committed to helping put good stories out into the world in whatever role is appropriate and needed for that particular project.
Mark Kassen
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Appropriate
Committed
Helping
Needed
Particular
Good Myself World
Basically
Maker
End Of The Day
Project
Good Stories
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Philosopher
Sad
Men
Delight
Enjoyed
Looking Forward
Looks
Particular
Pleasure
Satisfaction
Advance
Afterwards
Flowing
Forward
Hoping
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There is a genocide that is taking place among black men, in particular young black men, but it is not a genocide being perpetuated by white cops, by the Nazis, or by the Klan. Unfortunately and tragically, it is being perpetuated by other young black men.
Niger Innis
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Spokesperson
Genocide
Particular
White
Among
Cops
Unfortunately
Taking
Tragically
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Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman
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Economist
Argument
Belief
Economy
Free Market
Giving
Ought
Particular
People
Source
Thinking
Freedom Free People
Against
Free
Itself
Gives
Group
Indeed
Major
Instead
Objection
Precisely
Thinks
Underlying
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If I manage to write something that I consider good and valuable in a particular place, that spot automatically has a special aura for me. In Albania, there are two cities where I have written the majority of my work: Gjirokaster, my home city, and Tirana.
Ismail Kadaré
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Writer
Albania
Cities
Majority
Particular
Valuable
Work Good Home
Aura
Automatically
Consider
Spot
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I had a complicated home life, and my teachers, predominantly my theater teachers and my English teachers, were very dedicated to taking care of me in a particular way. And in doing so, I think I developed a very easy rapport with people older than myself.
Sarah Paulson
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Film Actress
Home
Care
Complicated
Dedicated
Easy
Home Life
Particular
Rapport
Theater
Life Myself Me
Life Home Myself
Teachers
English
Developed
Older
Particular Way
Taking
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You know, I think it was very important that my grandmother be perceived a very particular way in terms of being charitable or generous. I don't think Donald cares about those two things necessarily. He has his own version of what he wants the world to see.
Mary L. Trump
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Charitable
Generous
Particular
World Important See
Version
Cares
World Important Way
Donald
World Way Important
Necessarily
Particular Way
Perceived
Terms
Wants
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So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.
Dusty Baker
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Baseball Manager
Sports
Department
Eye
Manage
Mean
Particular
Time Eyes Me
By The Time
Micro
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Even though your emotions aren't wrong, that doesn't mean you have to stay stuck in a particular mood. You can certainly choose to make changes that will influence the way you feel. If you want to change the way you feel, change the way you think and behave.
Amy Morin
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Behave
Influence
Mood
Particular
Stuck
Certainly
Choose
Emotions
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I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology and that energy cannot be destroyed, but can change. I don't know what the afterlife is going to be, but I'm not afraid of it.
Alan Ball
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Writer
Biology
Creatures
Destroyed
Particular
Spiritual
Afraid
Definition
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I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.
Richard Rodgers
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Particular
Study
Temperament
Personality Believe I Believe
Expresses
Result
Spontaneously
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People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.
Jeb Bush
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Former Governor Of Florida
Concerned
Heart
Limits
Particular
People
Titles
Currently
Circumstance
Hearts
Irrespective
Ms
Title
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I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.
Emeril Lagasse
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Chef
Farmers
Fields
Particular
Products
Ran
Submerged
Work Myself Me
Talk
Lot
Boats
Fish
Days
Families
Fishermen
Off
Respected
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I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
Simon Raven
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Novelist
Common Man
Members
Ought
Particular
Privileged
Scene
Early Years
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Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
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Rashidun
Knowledge
Blessed
Forbidden
Particular
Share
Allah
General
Glorified
Hidden
Placed
Reveal
Secrets
Some Men
Whom
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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!
Ram Dass
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Teacher
Death
Heart
Pain
Particular
Spiritual
Witness
Love Death Heart
Rid
Thoughts
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Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
William Robertson Smith
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Imagination
Bloody
Effort
Ideas
Particular
Prominent
Reconcile
Ritual
Sin
Strong
Worship
Forms
Repulsive
Requires
Sacrificial
Strong Sense
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
Jackson Browne
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Singer-Songwriter
Equal
Mind Your Own Business
Music Business
Particular
People
Publishing
Two
Time Business Money
Began
Divide
Halves
Owning
Quickly
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Film Actor
Funny
Audience
Certain
Character
Cinema
Deeper
Guy
Humour
Particular
Play
Thinking
Deeper Level
Engage
Leave
Infuse
Particular Way
Tend
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Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a child or a god, which some people do. This might just be in America, but 'stand-up comedy' is something very particular that I don't particularly relate to.
Bo Burnham
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Comedian
Comedy
Particular
Relate
Stand Up Comedy
Adult
God People Treat
God People America
Just Be
Some People
Treat
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Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!
Karen Salmansohn
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Author
Marriage
Divorce
Particular
Point Of View
Statistics
Clearly
Counselors
Fail
Recommend
Strongly
View
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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.
Isabel Allende
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Writer
Muse
No Idea
Particular
Surrender
Theme
Convey
Finally
Haunt
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A guy can try something and not be successful, and it's just about him. But when you're a person of color, when you're a woman, when you're a woman of color in particular, you mess it up, and other people get tarred by your decision-making. You never act alone.
Stacey Abrams
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Color
Decision Making
Mess
Particular
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For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never heard before, and it must have its own particular intelligence. By 'voice,' I don't mean vernacular. It has to have its own particular history and world that it inhabits.
Amy Tan
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Film Writer
Heard
Particular
Reading
Vernacular
Voice
Books
Definitely
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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
Archibald Macleish
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Poet
Men
Every Man
Journalism
Particular
Wish
Everywhere
Occurrence
Presence
Same Things
Wishes
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I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.
Santiago Calatrava
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Architect
Architecture
Ideology
Impressed
Particular
Almost
Almost All
Books
Became
Buildings
Read
Discover
Fanatic
Picked
Visited
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Monetary policy ultimately must be conducted in a pragmatic manner that relies not on any particular indicator or model but, instead, reflects an ongoing assessment of a wide range of information in the context of our ever-evolving understanding of the economy.
Janet Yellen
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Economist
Assessment
Economy
Monetary Policy
Ongoing
Particular
Policy
Pragmatic
Range
Understanding
Wide
Context
Model
Indicator
Manner
Reflects
Ultimately
Wide Range
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We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
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Economist
Conditions
Economy
Equilibrium
Particular
Wages
General
Bring
Exist
Somewhat
Establish
In Other Words
Market
Prices
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While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.
Edmund White
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Novelist
Individual
Individual Life
Liberation
Memories
My Own
Particular
Self Acceptance
Boy
Case
Describe
Effect
Mainly
Mine
Personal
Truly
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