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They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.
Charles Godfrey Leland / Author
Descending
Loveliness
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
Amy Lowell / Poet
Beaks
Descending
Hate
Skulls
Vulture
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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essayist
Men
Beast
Descending
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
John Updike / Novelist
Life
Descending
Earth
Grace
Rain
Sky
Without
Would
No Life
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When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.
Logan Marshall-Green / Actor
Kids
Descending
Father
Mother
Directed
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Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.
Jimmy Page / Musician
Descending
Guitarist
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We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.
Richard Paul Evans / Author
Climbing
Descending
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
Yuichiro Miura / Alpinist
Descending
Height
Meter
Want
Mount
Ski
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I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.
Jimmy Page / Musician
Chords
Descending
Lines
Skills
Basic
Consider
Student
Learned
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America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Crisis
Descending
Economic Crisis
Handful
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Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Approval
Arab World
Descending
Arab
Below
Bush
George
George W
George W. Bush
Succeeded
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine / Saint
Success
Clouds
Descending
Foundation
Humility
Inspirational Life
Philosophical
Pierce
Wish
Will
Begin
Rise
First
Lay
Plan
Tower
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The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.
Joel Silver / Film Producer
Bigger
Descending
Movie Business
Remains
Scope
Studios
Want
Intact
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What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?
Tennessee Williams / Playwright
Broken
Descending
Earth
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We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
Bret Stephens / Journalist
Authority
Begets
Certitude
Data
Descending
Hubris
World Live Way
Convey
World Way Live
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Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.
Miranda Raison / Actress
Descending
Earnestness
Sentimentality
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The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.
Mariella Frostrup / Journalist
Descending
Sight
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Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.
Zebulon Pike / Explorer
Descending
Difficulty
Mississippi
Obtaining
Owing
Request
Mr
Henry
Horses
Respects
Returns
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Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.
Constant Lambert / Composer
Descending
Pilots
Spirals
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I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.
Anatoli Boukreev / Mountaineer
Ascent
Concerned
Descending
Oxygen
Return
Camp
Climber
Slowly
Scott
Seemed
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Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.
Clare Short / British Politician
Civilians
Descending
Gaza
Retaliation
Standards
Terrorist
Targeting
Worse
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I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.
Antonio Banderas / Film Actor
Descending
Gotten
Peak
Promising
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
Daniel Boone / Author
Blessing
Commerce
Descending
Hands
Heaven
Joyful
League
Nations
Plenty
Spring
Amidst
Scatter
Bid
Blessings
Hand
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After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Afternoon
Clearing
Descending
Replica
Doorway
Exact
Passage
Sealed
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I have always found the baptism of Jesus, with a dove descending and voice from Heaven, one of the great moments in the Jesus story. This is where Jesus hears the deep call from God.
Jay Parini /
Jesus
Baptism
Descending
Dove
Great Moments
Moments
God Great Always
Hears
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One of the arrangements I'm really proud of is '21 Guns' because the chorus has this descending bass line with a suspended type of progression that immediately screamed 'Bach' to me.
Tom Kitt /
Arrangements
Chorus
Descending
Progression
Suspended
Type
Bach
Guns
Immediately
Screamed
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There was an incident, in 1912, which 'gave me a turn,' so to speak: when I brought the 'Nude Descending a Staircase' to the Independants, and they asked me to withdraw it before the opening.
Marcel Duchamp / Painter
Descending
Opening
Incident
Staircase
Withdraw
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I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.
Michelle Williams / Actress
Descending
Journal
Loss
Paparazzi
Experienced
Literally
Oddly
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As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.
Tim Ferriss / Author
Descending
Importance
Income
Mobility
As Far As
Ignore
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In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase.
Marcel Duchamp / Painter
Abstraction
Descending
Movement
Painting
Real
Real Person
Static
Wanted
Person
Within
Articulated
Create
Deduction
Equally
Image
Staircase
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I woke up one time coming out of a blackout, and I was on an airplane, descending to land in Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. And all I can think is I must have decided it was a good idea to go to France, and got my passport, and got on a plane.
Joe Walsh / Former United States Representative
Airplane
Decided
Descending
France
Land
One Time
Go
Time Good I Can
Airport
Blackout
Idea
Charles
Coming
Passport
Good Idea
Got
Must
Plane
Woke
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Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.
Eric Liu / Writer
Citizenship
Conversation
Descending
Everyday
Mortar
Old Fashioned
Accompanied
National
Shrill
Thin
Whine
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There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.
Buzz Aldrin / Astronaut
Technology
Apollo
Descending
Engineering
Math
No Doubt
Program
Rapidly
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2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to bequeath health care, equality, and brotherhood on mankind - imploded. The myth of an America embracing the leftist social agenda collapsed.
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Equality
Brotherhood
Descending
Health Care
Mankind
Myth
President Obama
Health Care America
Obama
Apart
Bequeath
Collapsed
Embracing
Falling
Figure
Leftist
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