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Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.
Arnold Palmer / Professional Golfer
Golf
Perplexing
The Most Important
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For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.
David Harsanyi / Journalist
Wondrous
Mysteries
Perplexing
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What's perplexing to me is that I never think it's anybody's business to know my business.
August Alsina / Musical Artist
Business Me Never
Perplexing
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
Kate Christensen / Novelist
Broccoli
Green
Bad Rap
Perplexing
Vegetable
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A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very perplexing to composers.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Fifth
Fourth
Violin
Composers
One-Third
Perplexing
Tuned
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
Sydney J. Harris / Journalist
Funny
Bother
Middle
Two
Why Bother
Why Not
Witty
Life Time Age
Hear
Middle Age
Perplexing
Saying
Voices
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The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.
Charles Bass / Former United States Representative
Treatment
Important Issue
Issue
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Prisoners
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For the FBI and for the United States, the war on terrorism is a complex and perplexing issue. It is as complex and perplexing as any issue we have ever faced.
Robert Mueller /
Fbi
States
Terrorism
Complex
Issue
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To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won't keep on that way.
Joko Beck / Author
Degrees
May
Worry
Life Time May
Life Time Difficult
Degree
Oppressive
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Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
George Crumb / Composer
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Ideas
Light
New Music
Reflection
Perhaps
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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
Robert Kennedy / Former U.s. Senator
4th Of July
Opportunity
Challenges
Difficult
Filled
Might
Political
Tranquil
Wish
Lived
Challenging
Times
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In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.
John Sculley / Businessman
Jobs
Automation
Cases
People
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When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
Allen Klein / Speaker, Author
Humor
Important
New Perspective
Perspective
New Way
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Suddenly
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.
Michael Medved / Radio Host
Fascinating
International
Raises
Schwarzenegger
Series
Stature
Questions
Arnold
Campaign
First Place
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You can communicate a sad message or perplexing message through happy chords or a happy melody, and I hope to have the listener pose more questions in their life as opposed to going along with the everyday and what's being pushed on them.
Poppy /
Sad
Chords
Communicate
Everyday
Melody
Life Sad Hope
Questions
Listener
Opposed
Perplexing
Pose
Pushed
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We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.
Joko Beck / Author
Answers
Boundless
Caught
Causes
Contradiction
Limitless
Misery
Begin
Life Time Nature
Aware
Life Nature Time
Finding
Perplexing
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Same Time
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Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.
Patrick Stump / Singer-Songwriter
Ancient
Chinese
Enigmatic
Philosopher
Strange
Collection
Perplexing
Short Stories
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Of the countless ways to feel old in your 40s, perhaps none is quite as perplexing as seeing a young person trendily decked out in 1980s-style garb and saying to yourself, 'I can't believe that look is back in style. It was bad enough the first time around!'
Meghan Daum / Author
Countless
Time Look Believe
Perplexing
Young Person
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One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past.
Stephen Kinzer / Author
Associates
Century
Cry
Democracy
Late
Moral
Prudent
Pursue
Regimes
Dictators
Extent
Perplexing
Punish
Victims
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Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.
Brian Greene / Theoretical Physicist
Space
Analyzing
Black Hole
Conditions
Exotic
Holes
Ideas
Laboratory
Light
Shed
Theoretical
Time Nature Space
Extreme
Aspects
Black Holes
Nature Time Space
Fundamental
Nature Space Time
Hole
Perplexing
Space And Time
Test
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I think there are small treasures and blessings inside of our imperfections. But there are so many people in the world that oppress you for being an individual if you don't fit in with the rest of the crowd, if you don't run with the herd. It's always perplexing to me when I see people mad at other people for being who they are.
August Alsina / Musical Artist
Individual
Mad
Inside
World Me People
Always World Me
World Me Rest
Blessings
Crowd
Rest
Herd
Imperfections
Oppress
Perplexing
So Many People
Treasures
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The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.
James Surowiecki / Journalist
Accounts
Avoiding
Essence
Habit
Lying
Procrastination
Tasks
Thinking
Great People Happy
Indulging
Involve
Lies
Mental
Perplexing
Psychic
Surely
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