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What passions cannot music raise or quell?
John Dryden / Poet
Passions
Quell
Raise
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One thing that's always helped quell my writerly anxieties is seeking out interviews with writers I admire.
Molly Antopol / Fiction Writer
Seeking
Anxieties
Quell
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Karl Marx / Philosopher
Employed
Labor
Machines
May
Revolt
Weapons
Capitalists
Weapon
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Specialized
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You can just assume that better law enforcement response is going to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this country.
Chris Murphy / United States Senator
Enforcement
Gun
Law Enforcement
Response
Assume
Epidemic
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
Nagarjuna /
Anger
Enemy
Real
Life Your May
Although
Exhaust
Foes
Spend
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Real Enemy
Slain
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Unfortunately, being a woman in society means that sometimes you have to sort of quell what is instinctually broad and magnificent and magical about you.
Gina Torres / Television Actress
Broad
Unfortunately
Magical
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There was a prison uprising at Alcatraz, and I drove the Marines over there in a landing craft to quell the riot. I am the only serviceman I know with an American Theatre ribbon.
Bud Grant / American Football Head Coach
Landing
Prison
Riot
Theatre
Uprising
Craft
Drove
Marines
Quell
Ribbon
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We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
Calamity Jane / Scouting
Six
Soldier
Uprising
Wounded
Indians
Numerous
Ordered
Quell
Several
Soldiers
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I keep making the music I do because I feel very purposeful about making things that would be helpful or quell some loneliness in people. I really needed that when I listened to music growing up and even now, so I don't mind that sense of duty.
Perfume Genius / Musical Artist
Loneliness
Music Mind People
Even Now
Listened
Purposeful
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I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
Thomas Francis Meagher / Political Leader
Dream
Aim
Birth
Country
Factions
Farewell
Lofty
Misfortunes
Bid
Fatal
Passions
Prompted
Quell
Sought
Sympathies
Whose
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When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks.
Nathan Wolfe /
Concern
Respiratory
Unknown
Diseases
Drop
Hugely
Inefficient
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Spreads
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Special counsel Robert Mueller, investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, provided ample evidence that the president should be investigated for obstruction of justice in his attempt to quell the Russia investigation by firing Comey and urging aides to lie.
Heather Cox Richardson /
Evidence
Firing
Interference
Investigating
Obstruction
Aide
Ample
Attempt
Counsel
Provided
Quell
Robert
Urging
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General Zia-ul-Haq, a dictator and unscrupulous political actor, used Islam as a pretext for waging war in Afghanistan and adopting an aggressive stance towards India. By advancing a more orthodox version of Islam, he was able to hold on to a repressive regime and quell any opposition.
Asma Jahangir / Lawyer
Adopting
Advancing
Afghanistan
Aggressive
Dictator
India
Islam
Opposition
Orthodox
Pretext
Stance
General
Version
Towards
Hold
Quell
Regime
Repressive
Waging
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My advice for telling someone else's story is to try not to consciously bend the story in any particular direction - to listen with an open mind, to include the good with the bad, to attempt to quell one's biases and allow the person you're writing about to emerge as wholly as possible, warts and all.
Michael Finkel /
Open Mind
Warts
Good Mind Bad
Attempt
Bend
Biases
Emerge
Include
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Wholly
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It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local police forces, and then when they are used to quell peaceful demonstration. Then we have a problem, and especially around this entire case of the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson police officer.
William Lacy Clay, Jr. / U.s. Representative
Demonstration
Discussion
Ferguson
Peaceful
Police
Michael
Forces
Michael Brown
Officer
Police Forces
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Repressive measures taken by the British government to quell Indian nationalist agitation meant that expansions of the franchise regarding legislative councils were met by mistrust: Indian politicians in Bengal refused to participate in the 1920 elections, and formally adopted a policy of boycott and non-cooperation.
Ash Sarkar /
Government
Adopted
Agitation
Boycott
British
British Government
Indian
Mistrust
Policy
Taken
Meant
Politicians
Franchise
Legislative
Measures
Met
Nationalist
Participate
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Refused
Repressive
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