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America is an unusually religious nation.
Rodney Stark / Professor
America
Nations
Religious
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James / Philosopher
Effort
Mean
Metaphysics
Obstinate
Thinking
Clearly
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The Conservatives have been unusually badly led by David Cameron and Theresa May.
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis /
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Theresa
Badly
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David Cameron
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I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.
Brendon Urie / Singer-Songwriter
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My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
Dan Hill / Singer-Songwriter
Fool
Generous
Mess
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My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.
Richard Flanagan / Novelist
Pow
Talked
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One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
Alison Gopnik / Writer
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Features
Human Beings
Protected
Evolutionary
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People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
Oliver Platt / Actor
Dying
People
Years
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
Lyndon B. Johnson / 36Th U.s. President
Burden
Heavy
Mayors
Presidency
Always
Burdens
Could
Mayor
Remind
Seem
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Worse
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We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
Maya Lin / Designer
Artist
Brother
Differentiation
Gender
Any
Less
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Most people assume that my style is so outlandish and out there, but the reality is I like very classic pieces just rendered unusually.
Leandra Medine / Author
Classic
Outlandish
Pieces
Reality
Assume
Rendered
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Donald Trump may be unusually flamboyant, but his views are all too representative of the party that is about to nominate him for president.
Tom Steyer /
Flamboyant
Views
Donald
Donald Trump
Representative
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My sister is a chiropractor and she says I have an unusually flexible lower back, but I don't do yoga, and I don't feel like I'm very bendy.
Jennifer Carpenter / Actress
Sister
Yoga
Feels
Flexible
My Sister
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I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.
Michael Palin / Comedian
Blessed
Careers
Delight
Please
Pursue
Two
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There is no question that the recovery from the global recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy and anemic.
Michael Spence /
Financial Crisis
Lengthy
No Question
Recession
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I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.
Susan Orlean / Journalist
Born
Halloween
Moments
Occasion
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I was probably unusually close to my parents, so I do what I can now to preserve the integrity of their memory. The Holocaust deserves to be remembered.
Norman Finkelstein / Political Scientist
Holocaust
Integrity
Remembered
Memory
Preserve
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The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue of place since I was a little boy.
James Howard Kunstler / Author
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Apt
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Among the best of Hitchcock's own psychological thrillers is 'Spellbound,' whose story unusually wrapped the subject of psychoanalysis around a murder mystery.
Susie Dent / Lexicographer
Hitchcock
Mystery
Psychoanalysis
Thrillers
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Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan /
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Indian
Mother Man Father
Aware
Encouraged
Generation
Herself
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I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.
Jane Pauley / Journalist
Kind
Phenomenon
Thinking
Way
Celebrity Thing
Private Person
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I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.
Geoff Dyer / Writer
Capable
Essays
Non Fiction
Range
Broad
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What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.
Newt Gingrich / Former U.s. Representative
Cheated
Intense
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
Florence Ellinwood Allen / Judge
Groups
Jury
Owing
Serving
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Whenever
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I imagine the Wall Street protesters would embrace Greece's unusually generous benefits and massive welfare state, which were put in place by Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou in the 1980s.
Kayleigh Mcenany /
Generous
Greece
Prime Minister
Welfare
Welfare State
Minister
Unusually
Wall Street
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At an unusually young age, I read 'Instant Replay' by Jerry Kramer, which talked a lot about the Green Bay Packers and Vince Lombardi. From there I was really more a fan of coaches than teams and players.
Mike Leach / Football Coach
Coaches
Green Bay
Instant
Packers
Replay
Young Age
Bay
Talked
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September 2001 turned out to be an unusually bad time to sell stocks: By New Year's Day 2002, little more than three months after the post-9/11 low reached on Sept. 21, the S&P 500 had gained close to 20 percent.
James B. Stewart /
Bad Time
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Reached
Sept
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I think the office place is always seen as such a professional, sterile environment, so there's something unusually thrilling about taking that well-behaved, polished environment and turning it upside down and shaking it up.
Samara Weaving /
Polished
Shaking
Thrilling
Upside Down
Turning
Sterile
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I've toured around the world. I've worked with men, women. I feel like I've been unusually lucky to have supportive friends around me, and I feel tremendously supportive about my peers. I can't wait to brag about how funny my friends are.
Tig Notaro / Film Writer
Brag
Peers
Supportive
Funny Men Women
Funny Women Men
Toured
Tremendously
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In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge.
Evan Osnos / Journalist
China
Fanfare
News
Subway
Across
Affairs
Bridge
Cycle
Frequent
Large
Line
Passes
Presidents
Rarely
Ride
Though
Trip
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There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness.
Srikumar Rao / Author
Concentration
Workplace
Jerks
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Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.
Akio Toyoda /
Broken
Growth
Human Resources
Nurturing
Rapid Growth
Resources
Results
Rings
Speed
Thick
Tree
Caused
Analogy
Grow
Easily
Trunk
Rapid
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Working on 'Jekyll' required a lot of concentration and energy. The script is written in a very filmic way most of the time; unusually for television there are a lot of descriptive pages, tiny little fragmented scenes with no dialogue but huge energy.
Denis Lawson /
Concentration
Dialogue
Fragmented
Pages
Tiny
Descriptive
Required
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I was an unusually big kid for my age and did not know how to express myself after being targeted as the odd one out. I thus landed myself in trouble for reacting aggressively. But with time, I succeeded as an athlete and people started respecting me.
Mark Henry /
Athlete
Odd
Reacting
Time Age Myself
Landed
Express
Respecting
Succeeded
Targeted
Thus
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Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.
Robert Fitzgerald / Poet
Beauty
Handsome
Piercings
Satisfaction
Seems
Wish
Appear
Began
English
Equivalent
Except
Piercing
Unusually
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Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.
Richard Harding Davis / Journalist
Department
Grateful
Headquarters
Tonight
Alarm
Captain
Fellow
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Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average.
James O'shaughnessy / Author
Average
Results
Great Always Bad
Historically
Stocks
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The Franco-German tandem at the core of post-war European integration has become lopsided. Relations between Berlin and Paris are unusually poor, with some French politicians decrying the 'selfish intransigence' in the euro crisis of Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel.
Zanny Minton Beddoes /
Angela
Berlin
Euro
Germany
Integration
Post War
Tandem
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It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
Laura Marling / Musician
Function
London
Noticing
Relax
I Am Me People
Confirmed
Important People
Quieter
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There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.
Steven Van Zandt / Musician
Actors
Beatty
Kevin
Names
Established
Clint
Clint Eastwood
Clooney
Costner
Directing
Eastwood
George
George Clooney
High Percentage
Percentage
Remarkably
Unusually
Warren
Warren Beatty
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People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.
Howard Rheingold / Writer
California
Mars
Neighbour
Connection
Look Dress Me
Necessarily
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Perhaps not unusually for a popular film produced over three decades ago, there have been a dizzying parade of corporate characters trading rights to 'This Is Spinal Tap' through the years. Yet our requests for timely statements of the film's income have been met with a series of slammed doors.
Harry Shearer / Actor
Corporate
Decades
Doors
Income
Spinal Tap
Statements
Timely
Trading
Tap
Parade
Produced
Requests
Slammed
Spinal
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If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.
Cass Sunstein / Legal Scholar
Dallas
Expensive
Los Angeles
Transparency
Rise
Angeles
Los
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Spur
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One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media.
Clay Shirky / Writer
Cities
English Language
Landscape
Los Angeles
Stable
Angeles
Centered
Los
One Of The Problems
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Kissinger's unusually high body count and singular moral imperiousness has the effect, among his critics, of obscuring his didactic utility. An outsized personality who has committed outsized mayhem, Kissinger eclipses his own context. Yet, as animals were to the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, Kissinger is good to think with.
Greg Grandin /
Committed
Critics
Didactic
Mayhem
Moral
Utility
Among
Animals
Anthropologist
Context
Count
Effect
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