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When a lot of people wake up in the morning and put on their underwear, the first thing they feel that day is terrible about themselves. When you see that your body is not what other people want, it can be really devastating. I have so many friends that I grew up with who have had serious eating disorders.
Rain Dove /
Eating
Serious
Terrible
Underwear
Wake Up
Your Body
Morning Your Day
Devastating
Disorders
First Thing
The First Thing
Wake
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Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating threat of national bankruptcy can be averted. Furthermore, it is only by reviving American economic growth that the West's global predominance can be sustained, and peace and freedom kept secure around the world.
Robert Zubrin / Author
Bankruptcy
Economic Growth
Secure
Central
Devastating
Furthermore
Sustained
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In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.
Rufus Wainwright / Singer
Cutting
Father
Music Business
Rip
Time Business Music
Devastating
Distant
Survive
To Survive
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In my own constituency, the benefit cap has had the effect of social cleansing: of people receiving benefit, but the benefit is capped; therefore, they can't meet the rent levels charged and are forced to move. It's devastating for children, devastating for the family and very bad for the community as a whole.
Jeremy Corbyn / Politician
Cleansing
Levels
Receiving
Family Community People
Benefit
Cap
Charged
Devastating
Effect
Forced
Rent
Therefore
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I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.
Aly Raisman / Gymnast
Angry
Beam
Best Way
Fuel
Medal
Silver
Positive Best Myself
Daydream
Devastating
Focusing
Motivating
Negatives
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I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a café.
Samantha Stosur / Tennis Player
Home
Day And Night
Flood
Looking Back
Moving
Night
Actual
Cafe
Devastating
Opened
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Besides the devastating impact that the Ryan budget has directly on individuals, it does nothing to support job creation or our global competitiveness. Investments in both are drastically affected through cuts in funding for transportation and infrastructure projects, as well as funding for research and development.
Albio Sires /
Competitiveness
Creation
Funding
Infrastructure
Job Creation
Projects
Transportation
Besides
Budget
Cuts
Devastating
Directly
Drastically
Individuals
Investments
Ryan
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The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.
Khaled Hosseini / Novelist
Afghan
Book
Burned
Destruction
Giants
Infamous
Scene
Taliban
Vandalism
Vcr
Acts
Books
Buddhas
Countless
Cultural
Devastating
Effect
Films
Giant
Jailed
Musicians
Painters
Tapes
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That's the spirit in which I went to New York to be with my husband, and when I knocked on the hotel door, she opened the door as Caitlyn as we now know her - full makeup and fully dressed as a woman. So it was devastating to me to see because I had envisioned Bruce opening the door, but it was helpful in my process.
Linda Thompson /
Hotel
Bruce
Devastating
Dressed
Envisioned
Opened
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It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural order of things. It is an outrage that there is an attitude that this is normal. This is not normal. We can't shrug our shoulders and say this is just a 'fact of life' in remote Australia.
Bill Shorten / Australian Federal Mp
Aboriginal
Australia
Jail
Natural Order
Outrage
Rite
Devastating
Passage
Remote
Strait
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Claudia Rankine's book-length poem 'Citizen' was nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards in the categories of poetry and criticism. It is one of the most devastating takes on American culture I have read in a long time, laying bare the stakes of being black in a country long ambivalent about our presence here.
Glenn Ligon / Visual Artist
Ambivalent
American Culture
Awards
Categories
Criticism
Long Time
Stakes
Bare
Circle
Devastating
Laying
Nominated
Poem
Presence
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And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens.
Jan Brewer / Governor Of Arizona
Administration
Arizona
Borders
Citizens
Crisis
January
Letters
People
Response
Responsibility
Responsibility People Feel
Devastating
Facing
Governor
Numerous
Regards
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We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration.
Frank Wolf /
Family
Breakup
Crime
Human Life
Insidious
Prisoner
Rail
Recidivism
Rehabilitation
Restoration
Speak
Violence
Against
Life Family Culture
Communities
Devastating
Fathers
Rob
Husbands
Problems
Rates
Role
Root
Skyrocketing
Societal
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While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts of terrorism against the public, with a variety of programmes and interventions to address it, everyday violence against women occurring in the name of fundamentalism has long been neglected.
Deeyah Khan /
Everyday
Fundamentalism
Neglected
Programmes
Terrorism
Variety
Acts
Address
Rare
Devastating
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By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Army
Conservative
Countryside
Flight
Repression
Turkish
Category
Capital
Devastating
Early 1990S
Estimates
Falls
Peaked
Unofficial
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Smallpox can be personally devastating. After a 14-day incubation period, patients experience high fevers, headaches, and sometimes severe abdominal pain. A rash resembling chicken pox appears in the mouth and throat, face, and forearms, and spreads to the trunk and legs. As patients recover, scabs break and pitted scars appear.
Scott Gottlieb /
Break
Legs
Pain
Severe
Smallpox
Throat
Appear
Chicken
Devastating
Period
Headaches
Trunk
Mouth
Patients
Personally
Rash
Recover
Resembling
Scars
Spreads
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The effects of unresolved trauma can be devastating. It can affect our habits and outlook on life, leading to addictions and poor decision-making. It can take a toll on our family life and interpersonal relationships. It can trigger real physical pain, symptoms, and disease. And it can lead to a range of self-destructive behaviors.
Peter A. Levine / Author
Family
Decision Making
Disease
Effects
Family Life
Interpersonal
Outlook
Pain
Physical Pain
Poor
Range
Real
Self Destructive
Symptoms
Trauma
Addictions
Affect
Behaviors
Take
Devastating
Lead
Habits
Physical
Relationships
Toll
Unresolved
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Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.
Ayelet Waldman / Novelist
Choices
Different Approach
Mistake
Parent
Possibility
Raises
Sight
Superiority
Tolerate
Devastating
Minor
Preferences
Proclaim
Your Child
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Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in principle, to build societies in which everyone flourishes. But it also creates great dangers because it is not clear that we really understand how to use our potentially devastating powers.
David Christian / Historian
Humans
Remarkable
Species
Life Power Great
Billion
Creates
Devastating
Flourishes
Societies
Potentially
Powers
Principle
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During games, I love a Twitter-rocking dunk as much as the next NBA nut. But now, I'd slightly rather see a crowd-detonating (or crowd-silencing) 3-pointer, either off four or five whip-whip passes or (even better) off a steal and a one-on-two pull-up on a solo fast break. No shot in basketball can be more psychologically devastating.
Skip Bayless /
Basketball
Better Off
Break
Five
Games
Nba
Solo
Shot
Devastating
Fast
Dunk
Passes
Psychologically
Steal
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No one anticipates divorce when they're exchanging vows, and it can be devastating emotionally and financially. To ease the financial side of the blow, you need to maintain your financial identity in your relationship. That means having your own credit history - you need your own credit card - and your own savings and retirement accounts.
Jean Chatzky / Journalist
Accounts
Blow
Credit
Credit Card
Divorce
Ease
Exchanging
Identity
Retirement
Savings
Card
Devastating
Emotionally
Financially
Maintain
Vows
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
Pardis Sabeti /
Colleagues
Extraordinary
Intense
Trust Family Work
Connection
Deadly
Devastating
Diseases
Immersed
Lab
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