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All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon / Poet
Assertion
Sweeping
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I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.
John Burns / Politician
Brutality
Country
Depressing
Sweeping
Wave
Depressed
Rather
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I see massive potential for entertainment to create wide sweeping change.
Ian Somerhalder / Actor
Entertainment
Massive
Sweeping
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Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets.
Jeremy Corbyn / Politician
Streets
Sweeping
Wisest
Meet
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I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.
M. K. Hobson /
Sweeping
Wind
Gone With The Wind
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An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Steven Weinberg / Theoretical Physicist
Errors
Fallacy
Sweeping
Person
Expert
Grand
Small
While
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The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.
Vaclav Smil / Professor
Great
Energy
Great Hope
Renewable Energy
Sweeping
Thinking
Transition
Wishful Thinking
Quick
Renewable
Wishful
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For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.
Lenny Abrahamson / Film Director
Sweeping
Footprints
Walk Me Always
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
Sam Graves /
Sweeping
Cuts
Small Businesses
Unintended
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Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.
John Caudwell / Businessman
Pottery
Short Lived
Sweeping
Floors
Journalists
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Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
Caleb Deschanel /
Epic
Subjects
Sweeping
Choosing
Images
Show Off
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I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.
Steven Gerrard / Soccer Player
Girl
Men
Clear
Favourite
Fever
House
Justin
Sweeping
Justin Bieber
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When I heard Donald Trump make that sweeping hysterical statement that all Muslims have to be banned because they are terrorists, I was chilled by that.
George Takei / Actor
Banned
Chilled
Hysterical
Sweeping
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Muslims
Statement
Terrorists
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George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
John Lewis Gaddis / Historian
Evaluate
Franklin
Presidency
Redesign
Strategy
Sweeping
Bush
George
George W
George W. Bush
Grand
Roosevelt
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
Barry Commoner / Biologist
Technology
War
Profound
Sweeping
Transformation
Production
Systems
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My grandmother told me a long time ago, 'I don't care if you're sweeping a porch for a living.' She said, 'You need to do your best.' So I've lived by that every single day.
Tori Bowie /
Don't Care
Grandmother
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Porch
Single
Sweeping
Best Time Long
Best Time Do Your Best
Do Your Best
Every Single Day
Single Day
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Marseilles, Barcelona, Trieste, Istanbul - each romances the Mediterranean in its own fashion, mostly by embracing the sea in sweeping C-shaped bays that date back to antiquity.
André Aciman / Writer
Antiquity
Barcelona
Fashion
Istanbul
Sea
Sweeping
Date
Embracing
Mediterranean
Mostly
Romances
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What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'
Chris Evans / Actor
Movies
Blood
Diamond
Fall
Geek
Glory
Legends
Samurai
Sweeping
Watch
Epics
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The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.
John T. Flynn / Journalist
Active
Dollars
Groups
Immense
Labor
Million Dollars
Polls
Sweeping
Victory
Workers
Campaign
Won
Group
Large Part
Million
Provided
Roosevelt
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The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.
Stephen J. Field /
Assault
Contests
Poor
Rich
Sweeping
Beginning
Capital
Present
Till
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Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics. That said, not every election sends sweeping messages that are easy to discern, but every election provides lessons worth learning.
Chuck Todd / Journalist
Easy
Election
Lessons
Messages
Said
Sweeping
Understand
Anyone
Discern
Matters
Otherwise
Provides
Sends
Tells
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From the rugged cliffs of Cape Liptrap peninsula jutting bravely into the swells of Bass Strait, the coast arcs southeast, hugging the waters of Waratah Bay with sweeping flat lines of fine pale sand and knotty scrub.
Tim Cope /
Bass
Cliffs
Coast
Fine
Lines
Pale
Rugged
Sand
Sweeping
Bay
Bravely
Cape
Hugging
Peninsula
Scrub
Southeast
Strait
Waters
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One important lesson I learned over and over is that, when you walk into any troubled organization, there is a delicate balance between expressing human empathy and yet not passively sweeping hard truths under the rug.
Ben Sasse /
Balance
Delicate
Hard
Important
Organization
Sweeping
Between
Delicate Balance
Human
Expressing
Walk
Over
Important Lesson
Learned
Lesson
Passively
Rug
Troubled
Truths
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A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.
John Millington Synge / Playwright
Journey
Desolation
Exile
Hiking
Islands
Mass
Strange
Surf
Sweeping
Tumult
Week
Wet
Walk Me Day
Anywhere
Nearly
Round
Island
Passed
Strip
Waves
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When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.
Ashton Kutcher / Actor
Jobs
Dad
Dishes
Dust
Roof
Sweeping
Washing
Job
Carrying
Deli
Factory
First Job
Got
Grocery
Grocery Store
Off
Restaurant
Store
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While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.
Colm Toibin / Novelist
Attempting
Defining
Historian
Intelligent
Lying
Narrative
Self
Sweeping
Tone
Time Work Always
Time Work May
Grand
Readers
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The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
Bob Shacochis / Novelist
Integration
Sweeping
Archetypes
Forces
Wandering
Lucid
Resonate
Themes
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I sort of have this feeling about change in general. We can make baby steps on a macro level. We can try to shift policy, voting and changing who's in office. But we can make huge, sweeping changes on a personal level and in your immediate circle, or just the people around you.
Daveed Diggs /
Huge
Office
Policy
Steps
Sweeping
Voting
Change Your People
General
Changes
Circle
Feeling
Immediate
Personal
Personal Level
Shift
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My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.
Chloe Sevigny / Film Actress
Jobs
Bmw
Clay
Cost
Embarrassing
House
Milk
My Own
Pay
Sweeping
Tennis
Yacht
Job
Money Always Know
Works
Sixth
Club
Concept
First Job
Grade
How Much
Member
Near
Quart
Rent
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Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious - and rightly so - for its ability to direct our actions, even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth.
Gretchen Rubin / Author
Ability
Direct
Easier
Energy
Force
Growth
Habit
Harness
Notorious
Serenity
Sweeping
Actions
After
Before
Rightly
Shaping
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