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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
Brian Ferneyhough
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Composer
Failure
Space
Criteria
Entering
Implications
Prevailing
Questioning
Apply
Involves
Necessarily
Scarcely
Spaces
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I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'
James Harden
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Basketball Player
Loyalty
Greedy
Heard
Questioning
Winning
Entire
Entire Life
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As an actor, it was important to me to play gay characters because, growing up, it was something I never really saw done on television and in film, and I was questioning why there weren't more people like me.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
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Questioning
Gay Me People
More People
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Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.
Travis Bradberry
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Criticism
Good Leader
Leader
Questioning
Welcome
Certainly
Insist
Remembering
Requires
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Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.
Deepika Padukone
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Film Actress
Able
Broken
Broken Heart
Heart
Questioning
Accept
Also
Course
Energies
Immensely
Instead
Mend
Situations
Takes
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Although Mr. Trump will not be able to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, he can legally ignore its provisions, in keeping with his questioning of the existence of man-made climate change.
David E. Sanger
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Accord
Climate Change
Questioning
Change Will Climate
Change Climate Will
Man-Made
Ignore
Legally
Provisions
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Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.
Joe Rogan
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Stand-Up Comedian
Doe
Growth
Horrible
Ideas
Mechanism
Proven
Pushing
Questioning
Stunts
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Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy.
George M. Whitesides
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Chemist
Absolute Freedom
Authority
Democracy
Ideology
Questioning
Ran
Absolute
Flourishes
Soviets
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You can make a beautiful thing, but there's no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing, wrecking a thing, questioning a thing to the point where you have pushed it to the edge, and then recuperating it.
Amy Sillman
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Artist
Beautiful
Problem
Questioning
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal
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Writer
Government
Class
Genius
Heavy
Majority
People
Questioning
Return
Ruling
Taxes
Government People Nothing
Along
Ever
Inequity
Paying
Ruling Class
System
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In my experience, working as an intelligence analyst with my own pool of sources numbering close to 100, by far the most effective forms of human intelligence collection are rapport-building and direct questioning.
Chelsea Manning
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Soldier
Human Intelligence
Pool
Questioning
Effective
Sources
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I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.
Lorne Michaels
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Television Producer
Authority
Comedy
Healthy
Hostility
Polite
Questioning
Regard
Reverence
Thinking
Way
Canadians
Challenged
Ways
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Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged as a sign of intelligence and critical thinking in white boys.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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Authority
Critical
Critical Thinking
Questioning
Boy
Celebrated
Encouraged
Punished
Sign
Violently
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I grew up listening to 'Planet of the Apes' and other scores, and it was fun for me because you weren't just listening to those scores, but you were also questioning what you were listening to. What are those sounds?
Michael Giacchino
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Film Score Composer
Questioning
Ape
Scores
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To become a celebrity, a name - and I've actually met some that speak of themselves in the third person - it's scary. They become an object, not a human, complex, questioning thing where the cells are always changing.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Film Director
Questioning
Scary
Complex
Object
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Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?
Chris Messina
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Actor
Girl
Jobs
Dating
Questioning
Thinking
Yeah
Crises
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Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.
Mary E. Pearson
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Author
Curious
Idealism
Making Decisions
Questioning
Teens
Alter
Time World Sometimes
Cling
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It's common for people to start questioning themselves. As a female, I'm going to offer the advice I gave myself: You look at your strengths, you look at your goals, and accept that you are who you are. Be true to that.
Joy Mangano
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Advice
Common
Female
Questioning
Accept
Myself Your Look
True
Be True
Myself Look Goals
Gave
Start
Strengths
Themselves
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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
Bob Woodward
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Journalist
Air
Authenticity
Believe
Believer
First Amendment
Questioning
Silent
Suggestions
Views
Believe Me I Believe
Amendment
Believe I Believe Me
Coup
Washington
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I had two elder brothers and they would thrash me if I do something wrong, then dad would thrash me. I think corporal punishment as disciplining the child is what I am questioning... I feel there are less flawed methods.
Ranvir Shorey
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Film Actor
Flawed
Punishment
Questioning
Dad I Am Me
Dad Me I Am
Corporal
Elder
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My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.
Marina And The Diamonds
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Singer-Songwriter
Dad
Conservative
Evil
Impression
Pop Culture
Questioning
Spears
World Culture Me
Quite
Britney
Britney Spears
Brought
Commercial
Definitely
Looked
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Questioning someone who is acting as a lookout for a burglary might not result in an arrest, because there is not enough evidence of a crime in progress to support one, but that intervention will likely avert the break-in.
Heather Mac Donald
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Avert
Evidence
Intervention
Questioning
Arrest
Lookout
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I put my conservatism up against anyone. I'm a pretty staunch conservative, with pretty rabid ideas about conservative values... Questioning my conservatism doesn't seem like a particularly interesting project or exercise.
S.e. Cupp
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Conservatism
Questioning
Rabid
Staunch
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Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.
Amber Tamblyn
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Actress
Girl
Action
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Miracle
Questioning
Domino
Effect
Everyone Else
Miracles
Opposed
Tale
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Questioning authority can hardly be called our national pastime. We even make a philosophy out of fear. Fatalism, destiny, karma... are the favourite cultural holes we hide in when authority flogs us. And what's our tragedy.
Mahesh Bhatt
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Film Director
Authority
Fatalism
Favourite
Holes
Pastime
Questioning
Tragedy
Cultural
Hardly
Hide
National
National Pastime
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When I made the decision to go to Europe, a lot of people questioned it. The first six months I was there even I was questioning it, but I think I learned a lot more about myself in that six months than I have my whole life.
Deandre Yedlin
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Decision
Months
Questioning
Six
Life Myself People
Life Myself Decision
Questioned
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I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.
Laurence Fishburne
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Actor
Men
Different
Different Things
Existence
Intelligent
Intelligent Man
Purpose
Questioning
Thinking
Life Myself Man
Open
Meaning
Meaning Of
Relatively
Point
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I really like people to be able to interpret stuff in their own way, I like the ambiguity of the medium. We're just four guys in a band trying to articulate things in a questioning way. Who are we to tell people what to think?
Dan Smith
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Ambiguity
Questioning
People Way Trying
Articulate
Interpret
Medium
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Most people just settle - for a job or relationship, or where we live. Here's the strange thing though: when you start going outside the box and questioning things, then people - because we're taught this - start ridiculing you.
Mike Hughes
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Questioning
Strange
Taught
Box
Outside
Settle
Strange Thing
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What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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Physicist
Able
Educational
Etc
Evidence
Method
Nonsense
Questioning
Scientific Method
Skeptical
Tools
Empirical
Include
Provide
Scientific
Sense
Sources
System
Tell
Verifying
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
Orson Scott Card
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Novelist
Important
Inventing
Multiple
No Hope
Questioning
Training
Life Hope Experience
Explanations
The Most Important
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The space between keepers and defenders is referred to as the 'corridor of opportunity' - a well-hit pass in there has the goalie questioning whether to come into traffic and defenders unsure of whether or where to clear the ball.
Glenn Murray
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Defenders
Questioning
Traffic
Unsure
Corridor
Referred
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Before I beat Groves people were questioning whether I was good enough to beat him, and I was the underdog and that provides pressure. Now it's the opposite; through beating Groves people expect me to go in and wipe opponents out.
Callum Smith
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Opponents
Questioning
Underdog
Wipe
Good Enough Me
Good Me People
Beating
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Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.
Vinod Khosla
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Businessman
Religion
Science
Technology
Believe
Hard
Hard Questions
Important
Questioning
Science And Technology
Ask
Science Technology Always
Why
Interested
Encourage
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You do doubt yourself and question yourself. You go from massive highs and confidence boosters - when I was in New York I was buzzing around the place - to really doubting yourself and questioning everything about your personality.
Sarah Greene
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Questioning
Buzzing
Doubting
Highs
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If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.
Dee Hock
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Cadre
Committed
Concepts
Emerging
Exploring
People
Position
Position Of Power
Questioning
Understanding
Power Your People
Bright
Essential
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Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.
Amish Tripathi
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Author
Grandfather
Questioning
Seeking
Sibling
Traditional
Traditional Family
Discussions
Encouraged
Fortunately
Voracious
Readers
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As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.
Montel Williams
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Television Personality
Believe
Questioning
Questioning Why
Why Not
Begin
In Fact
Pull
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Even people back home, when I went to the NBA they were questioning whether I was good enough, I'm skinny, I don't have outside shot. As a player, sometimes that criticism, you just have to take that and try to convert it into motivation.
Goran Dragic
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Nba
Questioning
Good Home People
Good Home Enough
Convert
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Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'
David Bowie
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Musician
Atheist
Couple
Give Me
Little Bit
Months
Questioning
Spiritual
Spiritual Life
Writing
Little
Life Always Me
Almost
Bit
Give
Holds
Well
Worries
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Families in my community have seen their taxes go up because of the SALT deduction cap and as a result are questioning whether or not they can afford to live in New Jersey. The loss of the full SALT deduction puts an undue hardship on them.
Mikie Sherrill
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Hardship
Jersey
New Jersey
Questioning
Salt
Cap
Deduction
Puts
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There was such a sense of relief on the left when New Labour came to power that certain orthodoxies could not be challenged. People became desperate to hang on to the ascendancy of left ideas without really questioning what they were about.
Claire Fox
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Ascendancy
Desperate
Labour
Questioning
Relief
Power People New
Became
Challenged
Hang
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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
Earl Warren
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Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Attorney
Doe
Evidence
May
Questioning
Silent
Used
Against
Appointed
Does
Either
Him
Presence
Prior
Remain
Statement
Warned
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We work in a business where you feel you always have to say yes because you never know when you will work again. But I found myself questioning that paranoia, which I'd grown up with ever since I started working in the theatre in my late teens.
Tamzin Outhwaite
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Actress
Paranoia
Questioning
Teens
Work Business Myself
Late Teens
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Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone's Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.
Gary Ackerman
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Former U.s. Representative
Assuming
Constructive
Democratic
Looking Forward
Motive
Prove
Questioning
Bona
Examine
Liberals
Prior
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Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.
Eriq La Salle
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Actor
Blockbuster
Film
People
Questioning
Spirituality
People Will See
Debating
Resonates
Succeeded
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Analysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much time questioning one another's biases and loyalties that they have even settled on two opposing categories: 'panda huggers' versus 'panda sluggers.'
Evan Osnos
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Journalist
Categories
China
Diplomats
Involved
Opposing
Questioning
Versus
Time Business People
Analyst
Biases
Business People
Spend
Journalists
Loyalties
Scholars
Settled
So Much Time
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The Trevor Project provides crisis-intervention and suicide-prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens and young adults. It's truly a lifeline to so many young people who just need someone to listen to them.
Eric Mccormack
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Actor
Bisexual
Gay
Questioning
Teens
Transgender
Young
Adult
Listen
Project
Gay Bisexual People
Lesbian
Lifeline
Provides
Services
Truly
Young Adults
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I used to watch people like Raven-Symone and, you know, the Olsens at a young age, and Will Smith and people like that, and just looking at them at a young age on TV. And just thinking to myself, 'I can do that,' and questioning why I wasn't there.
Elijah Kelley
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Questioning
Young Age
Just Looking
Smith
Will Smith
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I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order.
Andrew Solomon
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Writer
Distinction
Orderly
Questioning
Social Order
Male
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