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Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.
Robert Irwin
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Addict
Pursue
Raises
Time Great I Am
Set
Every Time
Final
Immediately
Question
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question.
Al Franken
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United States Senator
Bias
Conservative
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Media
Might
Might Use
Oil
Thinking
Too Much
Ask
Wrong
Liberal
Question
Uses
Whether
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Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are in, if someone asks what do you do, and you say you work for Coca-Cola, you never have to answer the question, 'What is that?'
Muhtar Kent
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Executive
Business
Coca Cola
Country
Matter
Village
Ask
Work Business World
Question
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In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.
Serj Tankian
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Singer-Songwriter
America
Entertainment
Issues
Thinking
Assume
Issue
Just Be
Purposes
Question
Whereas
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I think we need to price carbon; there's no question about it. The way we do it needs to be based on science and not political debates and attacks, and that's why I'm drawing on experts and best practices from around the world.
Justin Trudeau
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Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Science
Carbon
Drawing
Experts
Needs
Best Science World
Attacks
Based
Debates
No Question
Practices
Price
Question
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I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
Elie Wiesel
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Professor
Faith
Mean
Night
Religious
Silence
Answer
Does
Stopped
Course
Having
Question
Wrote
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I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.
Ariel Pink
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Singer-Songwriter
Bottom
Bottom Line
Interesting
Mark
Question Mark
Results
Love Good Music
Big Question
Idea
Line
Question
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson
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3Rd U.s. President
Kings
Trust
Government
Men
Angel
Form
Found
Said
Trusted
Then
Angels
Man
Answer
He
Cannot
Govern
Him
Question
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At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.
John Hutton
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Civil Society
Economy
European Union
Civil
Implemented
Lies
Pass
Union
Question
Types
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Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question. This is precisely why the scientific method is the most powerful framework for understanding the world.
Gad Saad
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Scientist
Data
Framework
Given
Method
Most Powerful
Order
Powerful
Scientific Method
Understanding
Allow
Answer
Necessary
Precisely
Properly
Question
Required
Scientific
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Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.
Peter Milligan
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Writer
British
Following
Footsteps
Given
Idealist
Legendary
Spy
Believed
Charles
James
Mission
Question
Task
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There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.
Michael Nyman
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Composer
Duration
Good Things
Orchestra
Score
Want
Writing
Work Good Always
Motivating
Question
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A Health Affairs study comparing patient-satisfaction scores with HCAHPS surveys of almost 100,000 nurses showed that a better nurse work environment was associated with higher scores on every patient-satisfaction survey question.
Alexandra Robbins
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Journalist
Health
Environment
Higher
Nurse
Study
Work Environment
Affairs
Associated
Comparing
Nurses
Question
Scores
Survey
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Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
Andy Stanley
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Pastor
Morning
Disservice
Preaching
Simple
Sunday
Model
Simple Thing
Mornings
Question
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The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.
Andrea M. Ghez
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Astronomer
Science
Black
Black Hole
Massive
Milky Way
Simple
Started
Love Science Always
Center
Off
Hole
One Of The Things
Question
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The story I get the biggest kick out of is when my name and e-mail appeared on 'Jeopardy' a couple of years ago. My mother was a faithful viewer, and she said she was happy that they finally had an answer she knew the question to.
Ray Tomlinson
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Faithful
Jeopardy
Mother
Said
Years Ago
Appeared
Biggest
Couple Of Years Ago
Finally
Question
She
Viewer
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There are certain societal laws that are just accepted, things that are arbitrary. I think the fun thing about psychotics is that they question that. It can be very freeing... like, my ego or my individuality trumps society's law.
David Harbour
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Society
Accepted
Arbitrary
Certain
Fun
Individuality
Freeing
Question
Societal
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My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.
Daniel Kahneman
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Psychologist
Decision
People
Want
Well Being
Future People Will
Question
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
Timothy Garton Ash
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Historian
Respect
Communication
Balance
Blessed
Cursed
Fighting
Fire
Free Speech
Instant
Mutual
Mutual Respect
Remains
Said
Speech
Free
Fight
Question
Strike
Threats
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I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.
David Attenborough
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Broadcaster
Clever
Our Lives
Resourceful
Rich
Thinking
Way
Extinct
Preserving
Question
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People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.
Peter Thiel
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Entrepreneur
Technology
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Believe
Broken
Nanotechnology
Progress
Robotics
Thinking
Area
Limited
Question
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We need to get back and make the agencies who are putting more burdens on businesses and employers and hardworking taxpayers and question whether or not there's a true benefit, and if there isn't, we must take steps to repeal them.
Thom Tillis
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Employers
Hardworking
Steps
Taxpayers
Agencies
Benefit
Burdens
Putting
Question
Repeal
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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
Angela Davis
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Political Activist
Cities
Country
Grew
Late
Southern
States
Status Quo
Survival
United States
Early
Oppose
Question
Quo
Segregated
Status
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What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
Ben Nelson
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Former Governor Of Nebraska
Opportunity
Agree
America
Basic Principles
Equal
Equal Opportunity
May
Mean
Principles
Responsibility
Rights
Accompanied
Answer
Does
Basic
Each
Likely
Question
Responsibilities
Specific
While
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People are asking that question again if Max is being too tough on his equipment, but that's complete nonsense. He can't overdrive, he can't break the material. We all know what it is: it's just the equipment that isn't good enough.
Jos Verstappen
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Break
Equipment
Max
Nonsense
Tough
Good Enough People
Good People Tough
Complete
Good People Enough
Material
Question
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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
Freeman Dyson
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Physicist
Space
Destiny
Ecological
Niche
Species
Arrival
Awaiting
Exhaust
Expand
Million
Niches
Question
Shall
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Tastes and behavior are important in economics. Nobody denies that. But the question is: How much of behavior is irrational, and how much of the irrational behavior really affects prices? It turns out that's very difficult to answer.
Eugene Fama
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Economist
Irrational
Turns
Affects
Denies
Tastes
How Much
Prices
Question
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
Terry Eagleton
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Literary Critic
War
Crisis
Deals
Enemy
Legislation
Problem
Sides
Terror
General
Enemies
Liberal
Question
So-Called
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We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.
Blase J. Cupich
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Environmental
Heal
Pollution
Survival
Youth
Calamities
Displaced
Question
Spirits
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I'm really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don't even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.
Kanye West
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Songwriter
Beam
Energy
Explaining
Next
Inside
Answering
Jump
Opposed
Question
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
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Mathematician
Intelligence
Able
Answers
Confusion
Figures
Ideas
Occasions
Two
Will
Pray
Come
Am
Apprehend
Asked
Been
Out
Mr
You
Could
Wrong
Machine
Put
Right
Provoke
Question
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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
Molly Ivins
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Columnist
Accustomed
Bother
Discerning
Fine
Hopeless
Texas
Voting
Why Bother
Why
Naturally
Does
Less
Difference
Makes
Question
Raise
Slightly
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Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.
Daniel Goleman
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Author
Buying
Chemicals
Earth
Harsh
Heat
Soap
Use
Washing
Water
Worst
Question
Worst Thing
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Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.
Deborah Tannen
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Professor
Attention
Book
Conversation
Insight
Ask
Understand
Why
Men Women Why
Directions
Issue
Perhaps
Question
Women And Men
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We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that needs to be answered is which country will create and own the best robotic technology and have the infrastructure necessary to enable it.
Mark Cuban
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Businessman
Jobs
Technology
Infrastructure
Needs
Face
Answered
Countries
Create
Enable
Lose
Necessary
Question
Robotic
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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
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3Rd U.s. President
God
Boldness
Existence
Homage
Opinion
Reason
Because
Approve
He
Call
Seat
Every
Even
Fact
Firmly
Must
Her
Question
Tribunal
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All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.
Ellen Burstyn
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Actress
Home
Jolly
Satisfied
Sedentary
Life Me My Life
Life Home Me
Asked
Whatever
Grown
Question
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You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.
Mia Wasikowska
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Actress
Age
Expectations
Position
Raised
Surroundings
Way
Certain Age
Choose
Formed
Question
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Carl Rogers
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Psychologist
Change
Relationship
Smile
Asking
Growth
Healing
Personal Growth
Years
Cure
Early
His Way
Personal
Phrase
Professional
Provide
Question
Treat
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The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
David Mamet
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Playwright
Doe
Drama
Ideas
Setting
Taught
Theme
Main
Protagonist
Question
Wants
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Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'
Eric Liu
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Writer
America
Capitalist
China
Decades
Decline
Descendants
Lost
Mao
Seems
Six
Stage
Worry
Power World America
Communists
Washington
World Stage
Question
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We now enter a new age of American history, and the question to be answered is this: Will we restore the republic our forefathers created, or will we allow it to be annihilated by those who hate America, its history, and all it stands for?
Augustus Sol Invictus
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Age
History
America
American History
Forefathers
Hate
New Age
Republic
Now
Allow
Answered
Enter
Question
Restore
Stands
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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
Maria Montessori
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Physician
Age
Fitness
Maturity
Ready
Thinking
Child
Begins
Circumstance
Elementary
Express
Incidental
Mental
Question
Rudimentary
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When I get moved to write a story, I don't question the story. I dive right in, and I try to ignore the voices that are chattering away at me: 'You can't do that', 'You shouldn't do that'. I just sort of leap and take a chance and go for it.
David Bergen
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Novelist
Leap
Moved
Take A Chance
Chattering
Dive
Go For It
Ignore
Question
Voices
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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
Jimmy Carter
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39Th U.s. President
Egypt
Felt
Holy
Holy Land
Israel
Land
President
Raised
Asked
Nobody
Bring
Campaign
Elected
Negotiate
Question
Reasons
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The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?
Richard P. Feynman
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Physicist
Aesthetic
Flower
Insects
Interesting
Order
Adds
Attract
Forms
Colors
Exist
Evolved
Fact
Lower
Question
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When you get a question like, 'Did you like meeting Her Majesty?' 'No, I thought she was a slob.' I mean, what are you going to say... The mischief comes into me when I'm doing a Q&A, I'm 9 years old again. I don't get mad. I do get offended.
Jerry Lewis
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Comedian
Mad
Majesty
Mischief
Offended
Me Doing Old
Meeting
Question
Slob
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Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
Audrey Hepburn
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Actress
Giving
Injustice
Obligation
World
World Nothing More
Accessible
Becomes
Existed
No Question
Question
Smaller
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Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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Video Game Designer
Society
Games
Garbage
Garbage Cans
Nuisance
Toss
Video
Now
Almost
General
Been
Biggest
Considers
Question
Video Games
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Whether 'Avatar' is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick 'District 9', released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race.
Annalee Newitz
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Journalist
Apartheid
Debate
Fantasy
Race
Alien
Avatar
District
Earlier
Flick
Question
Regardless
Released
Undeniable
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