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Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca /
Dumb
Struck
Troubles
Weighty
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I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.
Tony Vincent / Actor
Character
Dark
Drawn
Weighty
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Chairing any Appropriations subcommittee is both a great honor and weighty responsibility.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Subcommittee
Weighty
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Guns N' Roses is a weighty subject, but in the same breath, I don't take it that seriously.
Duff Mckagan / Musician
Guns
Roses
Weighty
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon / Former Lord Chancellor
Fame
Light
Rivers
Swollen
Solid
River
Weighty
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Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Wislawa Szymborska / Poet
Borrow
Weighty
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It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.
Jesmyn Ward / Novelist
Subject Matter
Weighty
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I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
Isaac Rosenberg / Poet
Battle
Noble
Weighty
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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Vita Sackville-West / Author
Choices
Novelists
Writing
Begin
Weighty
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I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
Peter Ackroyd / Biographer
Philosophy
Reading
Remember
Picking
Weighty
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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Virginia Woolf / Writer
Romantic
Cutting
Romance
Serious
Telephones
Conversations
Cuts
Short
Observations
Telephone
Weighty
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In a drama, you generally have to be very faithful to the script and the storyline, and it all has to fit together, and it's weighty and serious.
Sophie Rundle /
Faithful
Storyline
Weighty
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What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.
Cotton Mather / Author
Agony
Frequency
Impossible
Saved
Asked
Deplorable
Nor
Weighty
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Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.
Christina Baker Kline / Novelist
Delightful
Disappear
Anecdotal
Substantial
Weighty
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We must nurture creative scientists in an environment that encourages interactions and collaborations across different fields, and support research free from weighty bureaucracies.
Ahmed Zewail /
Fields
Nurture
Collaborations
Encourages
Interactions
Scientists
Weighty
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Fantasy is usually considered an escape, but it's also a way to deal with weighty real-world issues from a safe distance and in a context where you usually have some kind of power that you don't have in real life.
Noelle Stevenson /
Distance
Fantasy
Issues
Real
Real Life
Safe
Also
Considered
Deal
Escape
Weighty
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My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'
Prince William / Lieutenant
Queens
Relationship
Men
Grandmother
Harder
Historical
Serious
Shy
Subjects
Younger
Matters
Queen
Weighty
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But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Rudolf Otto /
Religion
Aesthetic
Lying
Smell
Splendid
Sweet
Anyway
Somewhere
Breaking
Matters
Lie
Origins
Roar
Roses
Waves
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I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.
Lauren Willig / Author
Grad
Grad School
Historical
Historical Fiction
Light Hearted
Wars
Emerged
Romances
Spies
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When we did 'The Jewel In The Crown,' we filmed in India first so the actors had an idea of what the heat was like, what it did to you - it slows you down; it's weighty: the air that you breathe is full of humidity. You are aware of the fact that you're not in a studio in Manchester.
Art Malik /
Air
Breathe
Heat
Humidity
Manchester
Actor
Aware
Idea
Full
Crown
Fact
Jewel
Studio
Weighty
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I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.
Yossi Sarid /
Bother
Defined
God Good Believe
God Good Heart
Arrange
Trivial
Weighty
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When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
Yoshihiko Noda / Former Prime Minister Of Japan
Country
Delay
Detrimental
Difficult
Economy
Hurt
Indecision
People
Prime Minister
September
Tolerate
Decisions
Allowed
Became
Hurting
Japanese
Japanese People
Minister
Promised
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If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't care if you're writing textbooks or Pulitzer Prize-winning articles for weighty publications of world renown: If you're writing and it's paying the bills, consider yourself a successful writer.
Julie Klausner / Author
Articles
Bills
Don't Care
Making Money
Renown
Successful
Support
Textbooks
Writer
Consider
Paying
Publications
Pulitzer
Weighty
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
Sam Kean / Writer
Body
Certain
Common
Given
Humans
Light
Natural
Obscure
Single
Your Body
Almost
Atom
Daily
Daily Lives
Element
Small
Incorporate
Least
Periodic
Table
Weighty
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Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated way, because we've become accustomed to looking up something, getting a snippet and being satisfied with that - as opposed to reading through and considering a weighty tome that goes into great depth.
Vint Cerf /
Accustomed
Considering
Depth
Satisfied
Absorb
Concentrated
Weighty
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