| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the ... |
139.42 |
1.0696 |
0.3902 |
317 |
1 |
139.42 |
2016-05-03 |
| 2. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
136.09 |
1.0138 |
0.3983 |
231 |
4 |
106.54 |
2016-05-03 |
| 3. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
130.08 |
1.0787 |
0.2696 |
237 |
2 |
126.72 |
2013-05-22 |
| 4. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
127.59 |
1.0289 |
0.2990 |
276 |
2 |
113.13 |
2016-05-03 |
| 5. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
123.51 |
1.0201 |
0.2611 |
303 |
1 |
123.51 |
2016-05-03 |
| 6. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
123.39 |
1.0863 |
0.2280 |
210 |
2 |
120.54 |
2013-05-22 |
| 7. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
122.73 |
1.0025 |
0.2700 |
256 |
4 |
98.99 |
2016-05-03 |
| 8. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
121.30 |
1.0797 |
0.1723 |
210 |
4 |
101.34 |
2010-01-26 |
| 9. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
120.92 |
1.0337 |
0.2193 |
214 |
2 |
100.42 |
2012-07-29 |
| 10. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
120.52 |
1.0774 |
0.2014 |
304 |
1 |
120.52 |
2016-05-03 |
| 11. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
119.40 |
1.0352 |
0.2051 |
341 |
4 |
103.25 |
2012-09-06 |
| 12. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
118.51 |
1.0462 |
0.1761 |
184 |
2 |
113.08 |
2016-05-03 |
| 13. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
118.18 |
0.9754 |
0.2556 |
362 |
1 |
118.18 |
2016-05-03 |
| 14. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
118.08 |
0.9514 |
0.2728 |
237 |
1 |
118.08 |
2016-05-03 |
| 15. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
117.69 |
1.0349 |
0.1842 |
234 |
2 |
103.20 |
2012-07-29 |
| 16. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
117.42 |
1.0412 |
0.1752 |
225 |
3 |
104.15 |
2012-07-29 |
| 17. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
117.33 |
1.0183 |
0.1921 |
191 |
1 |
117.33 |
2012-09-06 |
| 18. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
117.17 |
1.0521 |
0.1575 |
171 |
2 |
98.99 |
2009-10-23 |
| 19. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
116.99 |
1.0498 |
0.1579 |
180 |
5 |
101.63 |
2009-11-05 |
| 20. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
116.98 |
1.0943 |
0.1507 |
206 |
1 |
116.98 |
2012-09-06 |
| 21. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
116.50 |
0.9966 |
0.2101 |
259 |
1 |
116.50 |
2012-07-29 |
| 22. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
116.03 |
1.0596 |
0.1407 |
239 |
1 |
116.03 |
2012-09-06 |
| 23. |
After others have talked about themselves, a point will be r... |
115.78 |
1.0948 |
0.1092 |
153 |
1 |
115.78 |
2016-05-03 |
| 24. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
115.75 |
1.0025 |
0.1979 |
336 |
2 |
104.14 |
2012-09-06 |
| 25. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
115.23 |
1.0968 |
0.1346 |
365 |
1 |
115.23 |
2012-09-06 |
| 26. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
115.15 |
1.0389 |
0.1560 |
318 |
2 |
104.91 |
2012-10-01 |
| 27. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
115.06 |
0.9871 |
0.2414 |
209 |
4 |
95.99 |
2012-09-06 |
| 28. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
114.10 |
1.0177 |
0.2027 |
392 |
3 |
101.93 |
2016-05-03 |
| 29. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
113.53 |
1.0218 |
0.1515 |
268 |
3 |
105.52 |
2012-09-06 |
| 30. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
113.18 |
0.8933 |
0.2857 |
363 |
2 |
96.74 |
2016-05-03 |
| 31. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
112.92 |
1.0398 |
0.1195 |
110 |
2 |
112.02 |
2009-10-16 |
| 32. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
112.91 |
1.0796 |
0.0853 |
129 |
2 |
109.23 |
2010-02-06 |
| 33. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
112.76 |
1.0555 |
0.1141 |
363 |
3 |
109.90 |
2009-10-15 |
| 34. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
112.73 |
1.0619 |
0.1096 |
354 |
2 |
100.29 |
2012-10-02 |
| 35. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
111.94 |
0.9746 |
0.2134 |
405 |
1 |
111.94 |
2012-10-02 |
| 36. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
109.20 |
0.9632 |
0.1741 |
392 |
1 |
109.20 |
2012-07-29 |
| 37. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
108.80 |
1.0907 |
0.0387 |
303 |
1 |
108.80 |
2009-10-02 |
| 38. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
108.77 |
1.0053 |
0.1191 |
232 |
3 |
98.64 |
2012-07-29 |
| 39. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
107.60 |
1.0375 |
0.1226 |
200 |
2 |
105.23 |
2010-09-02 |
| 40. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
107.52 |
0.9464 |
0.1720 |
323 |
2 |
96.39 |
2013-05-22 |
| 41. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
107.51 |
1.0445 |
0.0696 |
373 |
2 |
106.09 |
2012-10-02 |
| 42. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
107.13 |
0.9857 |
0.1225 |
293 |
2 |
101.68 |
2016-05-03 |
| 43. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
107.06 |
1.0165 |
0.0959 |
392 |
2 |
97.68 |
2012-07-29 |
| 44. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
106.83 |
0.9937 |
0.1371 |
429 |
4 |
100.18 |
2012-10-02 |
| 45. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
106.67 |
1.0099 |
0.0916 |
207 |
2 |
92.53 |
2009-12-06 |
| 46. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
106.65 |
0.9128 |
0.2329 |
369 |
1 |
106.65 |
2016-05-03 |
| 47. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
106.38 |
0.9769 |
0.1223 |
263 |
1 |
106.38 |
2010-02-03 |
| 48. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
106.28 |
0.9852 |
0.1154 |
264 |
2 |
96.33 |
2009-10-23 |
| 49. |
Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I ... |
106.11 |
1.0141 |
0.0805 |
176 |
1 |
106.11 |
2016-05-03 |
| 50. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
105.42 |
1.0485 |
0.0775 |
153 |
2 |
101.34 |
2012-07-29 |
| 51. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
105.34 |
1.0795 |
0.0414 |
226 |
2 |
95.20 |
2009-11-27 |
| 52. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
104.84 |
0.9293 |
0.1567 |
355 |
2 |
83.09 |
2012-07-29 |
| 53. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
104.68 |
1.0482 |
0.0590 |
487 |
1 |
104.68 |
2010-05-12 |
| 54. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
104.59 |
0.9907 |
0.0903 |
211 |
1 |
104.59 |
2012-10-01 |
| 55. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
104.55 |
1.0829 |
0.0008 |
288 |
4 |
91.38 |
2012-09-06 |
| 56. |
There is more to color than a swatch in a book, or a pull do... |
104.38 |
0.9544 |
0.1335 |
260 |
1 |
104.38 |
2016-05-03 |
| 57. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
104.30 |
1.0203 |
0.0627 |
261 |
1 |
104.30 |
2009-10-04 |
| 58. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
104.16 |
1.0993 |
-0.0233 |
265 |
1 |
104.16 |
2010-04-01 |
| 59. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
104.03 |
1.0516 |
0.0247 |
281 |
1 |
104.03 |
2010-01-21 |
| 60. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
103.89 |
1.0340 |
0.0465 |
406 |
3 |
95.46 |
2009-10-02 |
| 61. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
103.58 |
0.9640 |
0.1373 |
334 |
1 |
103.58 |
2012-07-29 |
| 62. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
103.51 |
1.0725 |
0.0246 |
233 |
1 |
103.51 |
2012-07-29 |
| 63. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
103.48 |
1.0669 |
0.0364 |
286 |
2 |
100.14 |
2013-05-22 |
| 64. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
103.38 |
0.9925 |
0.1141 |
247 |
1 |
103.38 |
2010-09-02 |
| 65. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
103.33 |
1.0696 |
-0.0037 |
226 |
3 |
93.34 |
2009-11-09 |
| 66. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
103.32 |
0.9532 |
0.1148 |
258 |
1 |
103.32 |
2012-09-06 |
| 67. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
103.14 |
1.0496 |
0.0171 |
314 |
3 |
96.70 |
2009-10-16 |
| 68. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
102.96 |
0.9553 |
0.1174 |
430 |
1 |
102.96 |
2012-07-29 |
| 69. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
102.85 |
1.0288 |
0.0677 |
300 |
1 |
102.85 |
2012-10-02 |
| 70. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
102.58 |
1.0292 |
0.0310 |
262 |
2 |
98.18 |
2009-10-02 |
| 71. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
102.45 |
1.0567 |
0.0041 |
303 |
2 |
99.90 |
2013-05-22 |
| 72. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
102.23 |
0.9672 |
0.0972 |
396 |
1 |
102.23 |
2009-11-05 |
| 73. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
101.71 |
0.9763 |
0.0756 |
289 |
1 |
101.71 |
2009-10-02 |
| 74. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
101.35 |
1.0595 |
-0.0083 |
379 |
2 |
97.64 |
2009-12-13 |
| 75. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
101.27 |
0.9682 |
0.0777 |
143 |
3 |
91.32 |
2012-07-29 |
| 76. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
101.22 |
0.9964 |
0.0510 |
203 |
2 |
96.03 |
2009-12-13 |
| 77. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
101.18 |
1.1018 |
-0.0613 |
220 |
1 |
101.18 |
2009-10-02 |
| 78. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
101.07 |
1.0189 |
0.0301 |
337 |
2 |
99.08 |
2009-10-23 |
| 79. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
100.87 |
0.9653 |
0.0866 |
394 |
3 |
88.32 |
2016-05-03 |
| 80. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
100.68 |
0.8958 |
0.1504 |
322 |
4 |
91.23 |
2016-05-03 |
| 81. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
100.67 |
0.9734 |
0.0678 |
289 |
1 |
100.67 |
2009-11-09 |
| 82. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
100.59 |
1.0711 |
-0.0355 |
213 |
2 |
99.75 |
2010-09-02 |
| 83. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
100.55 |
1.0368 |
0.0044 |
276 |
2 |
95.82 |
2013-05-22 |
| 84. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
100.39 |
1.0767 |
-0.0403 |
212 |
1 |
100.39 |
2009-10-02 |
| 85. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
100.38 |
1.0343 |
0.0416 |
242 |
2 |
91.44 |
2009-12-13 |
| 86. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
100.30 |
0.9635 |
0.0796 |
389 |
1 |
100.30 |
2009-10-23 |
| 87. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
100.27 |
1.0441 |
-0.0053 |
252 |
1 |
100.27 |
2009-10-07 |
| 88. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
100.03 |
1.0565 |
-0.0243 |
247 |
1 |
100.03 |
2009-10-02 |
| 89. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
100.01 |
1.0263 |
0.0075 |
267 |
2 |
94.60 |
2009-10-07 |
| 90. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
99.91 |
0.9570 |
0.0783 |
287 |
1 |
99.91 |
2009-10-07 |
| 91. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
99.81 |
0.9665 |
0.1153 |
326 |
1 |
99.81 |
2012-07-29 |
| 92. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
99.57 |
0.9884 |
0.0408 |
233 |
1 |
99.57 |
2009-10-04 |
| 93. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
99.47 |
0.9805 |
0.0531 |
292 |
3 |
92.69 |
2009-10-23 |
| 94. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
99.36 |
1.0109 |
0.0177 |
276 |
2 |
96.26 |
2009-12-13 |
| 95. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
99.27 |
1.0944 |
-0.0227 |
308 |
1 |
99.27 |
2009-10-02 |
| 96. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
99.15 |
0.9997 |
0.0295 |
382 |
1 |
99.15 |
2010-02-06 |
| 97. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
99.03 |
1.0120 |
0.0116 |
290 |
1 |
99.03 |
2009-12-13 |
| 98. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
98.91 |
0.9851 |
0.0402 |
317 |
3 |
85.66 |
2012-07-29 |
| 99. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
98.78 |
1.0487 |
-0.0320 |
231 |
1 |
98.78 |
2009-10-16 |
| 100. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
98.76 |
0.8770 |
0.1477 |
300 |
3 |
90.64 |
2012-09-06 |
| 101. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
98.64 |
0.8961 |
0.1208 |
189 |
3 |
93.97 |
2010-01-21 |
| 102. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
98.57 |
0.9886 |
0.0334 |
220 |
5 |
85.98 |
2012-10-02 |
| 103. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
98.49 |
0.9938 |
0.0257 |
339 |
2 |
90.77 |
2009-10-23 |
| 104. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
98.41 |
1.0197 |
-0.0047 |
226 |
3 |
88.64 |
2009-11-09 |
| 105. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
98.38 |
1.0529 |
-0.0355 |
351 |
2 |
95.51 |
2009-11-13 |
| 106. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
98.25 |
1.0297 |
-0.0147 |
249 |
3 |
92.62 |
2010-02-03 |
| 107. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
98.18 |
1.0201 |
-0.0006 |
375 |
2 |
94.38 |
2010-09-02 |
| 108. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
97.91 |
1.0419 |
-0.0293 |
261 |
3 |
90.24 |
2009-10-29 |
| 109. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
97.84 |
0.9976 |
0.0345 |
174 |
1 |
97.84 |
2009-12-03 |
| 110. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
97.71 |
0.9726 |
0.0315 |
154 |
3 |
93.06 |
2009-10-29 |
| 111. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
97.65 |
0.8956 |
0.1189 |
322 |
2 |
89.13 |
2012-07-29 |
| 112. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
97.57 |
0.9912 |
0.0448 |
237 |
1 |
97.57 |
2012-09-06 |
| 113. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
97.52 |
1.1114 |
-0.1056 |
247 |
1 |
97.52 |
2009-10-04 |
| 114. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
97.26 |
1.0168 |
-0.0096 |
271 |
2 |
96.62 |
2009-11-13 |
| 115. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
97.01 |
0.9049 |
0.1037 |
351 |
1 |
97.01 |
2013-05-22 |
| 116. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
96.96 |
1.0261 |
-0.0253 |
273 |
1 |
96.96 |
2009-10-23 |
| 117. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
96.95 |
1.1162 |
-0.0726 |
189 |
1 |
96.95 |
2012-09-06 |
| 118. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
96.73 |
0.9088 |
0.0967 |
348 |
3 |
85.65 |
2009-11-13 |
| 119. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
96.66 |
1.0141 |
0.0217 |
304 |
3 |
91.01 |
2009-11-05 |
| 120. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
96.50 |
1.0545 |
-0.0159 |
416 |
2 |
95.21 |
2009-12-07 |
| 121. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
96.16 |
0.9097 |
0.1262 |
464 |
1 |
96.16 |
2012-09-06 |
| 122. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
95.89 |
1.0008 |
0.0337 |
473 |
1 |
95.89 |
2012-09-06 |
| 123. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
95.71 |
0.9468 |
0.0423 |
276 |
1 |
95.71 |
2010-02-06 |
| 124. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
95.58 |
1.0316 |
-0.0396 |
333 |
1 |
95.58 |
2009-12-06 |
| 125. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
95.36 |
0.9576 |
0.0329 |
212 |
1 |
95.36 |
2009-10-02 |
| 126. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
95.17 |
1.0124 |
-0.0309 |
204 |
2 |
90.90 |
2009-11-27 |
| 127. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
95.03 |
0.9485 |
0.0364 |
291 |
3 |
85.04 |
2009-10-29 |
| 128. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
94.97 |
0.9780 |
0.0048 |
337 |
1 |
94.97 |
2009-11-05 |
| 129. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
94.75 |
1.0662 |
-0.0490 |
407 |
1 |
94.75 |
2012-07-29 |
| 130. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
94.57 |
0.9994 |
0.0088 |
269 |
1 |
94.57 |
2016-05-03 |
| 131. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
94.47 |
1.0252 |
-0.0551 |
176 |
1 |
94.47 |
2010-02-03 |
| 132. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
94.43 |
0.9500 |
0.0284 |
362 |
2 |
89.45 |
2009-10-23 |
| 133. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
94.23 |
1.0528 |
-0.0837 |
201 |
1 |
94.23 |
2009-10-02 |
| 134. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
94.09 |
0.9087 |
0.0746 |
393 |
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93.30 |
2010-01-21 |
| 135. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
94.02 |
0.9005 |
0.0699 |
212 |
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90.98 |
2009-10-23 |
| 136. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
93.98 |
1.0167 |
-0.0384 |
378 |
1 |
93.98 |
2009-11-21 |
| 137. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
93.95 |
0.9109 |
0.0628 |
401 |
3 |
84.51 |
2009-10-08 |
| 138. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
93.77 |
1.0347 |
-0.0400 |
550 |
1 |
93.77 |
2009-10-02 |
| 139. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
93.64 |
1.0125 |
-0.0469 |
224 |
4 |
81.63 |
2009-11-27 |
| 140. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
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1.0941 |
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256 |
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93.61 |
2009-10-02 |
| 141. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
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1.0068 |
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358 |
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91.02 |
2009-11-13 |
| 142. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
93.56 |
1.0352 |
-0.0650 |
341 |
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87.97 |
2009-10-23 |
| 143. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
93.27 |
1.0668 |
-0.1003 |
350 |
1 |
93.27 |
2009-10-23 |
| 144. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
93.13 |
1.0095 |
-0.0480 |
316 |
2 |
92.14 |
2009-12-13 |
| 145. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
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0.9697 |
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249 |
1 |
93.06 |
2009-10-23 |
| 146. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
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1.0709 |
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392 |
1 |
92.74 |
2012-09-06 |
| 147. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
92.63 |
1.0328 |
-0.0374 |
356 |
2 |
86.00 |
2012-07-29 |
| 148. |
Scissors cuts paper. Paper covers rock. Rock crushes lizard.... |
92.58 |
0.7918 |
0.1727 |
244 |
1 |
92.58 |
2016-05-03 |
| 149. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
92.54 |
1.0251 |
-0.0709 |
261 |
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92.54 |
2009-11-13 |
| 150. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
92.49 |
1.0254 |
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217 |
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92.49 |
2010-05-12 |
| 151. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
92.46 |
0.9843 |
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234 |
3 |
84.88 |
2012-07-29 |
| 152. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
92.14 |
0.9831 |
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469 |
2 |
89.79 |
2012-09-26 |
| 153. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
91.97 |
0.9866 |
-0.0399 |
218 |
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90.76 |
2012-07-29 |
| 154. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
91.93 |
0.9074 |
0.0491 |
396 |
3 |
86.99 |
2009-11-09 |
| 155. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
91.67 |
0.9168 |
0.0318 |
240 |
1 |
91.67 |
2010-02-03 |
| 156. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
91.63 |
1.0314 |
-0.0454 |
452 |
3 |
87.02 |
2009-10-23 |
| 157. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
91.56 |
0.9922 |
-0.0050 |
341 |
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91.56 |
2009-10-23 |
| 158. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
91.49 |
1.0109 |
-0.0326 |
400 |
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2009-10-29 |
| 159. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
91.45 |
0.9485 |
-0.0018 |
236 |
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91.45 |
2009-10-29 |
| 160. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
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1.0213 |
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240 |
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91.21 |
2009-10-16 |
| 161. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
90.66 |
0.9756 |
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229 |
2 |
87.63 |
2009-12-03 |
| 162. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
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2009-10-15 |
| 163. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
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1.0385 |
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2009-10-23 |
| 164. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
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1.0077 |
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90.54 |
2010-01-26 |
| 165. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
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1.0012 |
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260 |
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90.41 |
2009-11-27 |
| 166. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
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0.9233 |
0.0008 |
168 |
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88.37 |
2009-10-02 |
| 167. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
90.22 |
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82.64 |
2009-11-27 |
| 168. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
89.85 |
0.9557 |
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331 |
1 |
89.85 |
2010-02-06 |
| 169. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
89.63 |
1.0390 |
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205 |
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86.82 |
2009-10-02 |
| 170. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
89.62 |
1.0429 |
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259 |
2 |
87.88 |
2009-12-07 |
| 171. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
89.53 |
0.9164 |
0.0133 |
305 |
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89.53 |
2010-01-26 |
| 172. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
89.47 |
0.9965 |
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310 |
1 |
89.47 |
2009-10-02 |
| 173. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
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1.0463 |
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182 |
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89.41 |
2009-10-23 |
| 174. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
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0.9941 |
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217 |
1 |
89.35 |
2009-10-02 |
| 175. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
89.30 |
0.9289 |
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204 |
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85.55 |
2009-10-16 |
| 176. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
88.99 |
1.0391 |
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358 |
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88.53 |
2009-10-23 |
| 177. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
88.97 |
0.9768 |
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387 |
1 |
88.97 |
2009-10-23 |
| 178. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
88.90 |
0.9084 |
0.0117 |
300 |
3 |
81.30 |
2010-05-12 |
| 179. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
88.77 |
0.9411 |
-0.0234 |
318 |
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88.45 |
2009-10-16 |
| 180. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
88.62 |
0.9723 |
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364 |
1 |
88.62 |
2009-10-07 |
| 181. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
88.24 |
0.9844 |
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293 |
5 |
81.75 |
2010-01-21 |
| 182. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
88.17 |
0.9513 |
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354 |
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88.17 |
2009-10-02 |
| 183. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
87.93 |
1.0506 |
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277 |
1 |
87.93 |
2009-12-06 |
| 184. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
87.89 |
1.0131 |
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225 |
1 |
87.89 |
2009-10-23 |
| 185. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
87.81 |
0.9636 |
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254 |
1 |
87.81 |
2009-11-27 |
| 186. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
87.75 |
0.9286 |
-0.0234 |
194 |
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83.42 |
2009-12-07 |
| 187. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
87.58 |
0.9614 |
-0.0540 |
292 |
1 |
87.58 |
2009-12-07 |
| 188. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
87.32 |
1.0486 |
-0.1461 |
289 |
1 |
87.32 |
2009-10-23 |
| 189. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
87.27 |
0.8602 |
0.0388 |
206 |
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83.02 |
2012-07-29 |
| 190. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
87.25 |
1.0396 |
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149 |
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2009-10-07 |
| 191. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
87.01 |
0.9426 |
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87.01 |
2009-10-04 |
| 192. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
86.86 |
0.9202 |
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254 |
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81.17 |
2009-10-02 |
| 193. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
86.75 |
0.9772 |
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217 |
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86.75 |
2009-10-02 |
| 194. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
86.62 |
0.9312 |
0.0139 |
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86.62 |
2016-05-03 |
| 195. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
86.46 |
0.9863 |
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86.46 |
2009-10-07 |
| 196. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
86.16 |
1.0023 |
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211 |
1 |
86.16 |
2009-10-29 |
| 197. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
86.00 |
1.0444 |
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197 |
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86.00 |
2012-09-06 |
| 198. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
85.82 |
0.9176 |
0.0072 |
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85.82 |
2010-05-12 |
| 199. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
85.69 |
0.9820 |
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85.69 |
2009-10-15 |
| 200. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
85.47 |
0.9398 |
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419 |
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80.33 |
2012-09-06 |
| 201. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
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225 |
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85.40 |
2010-05-12 |
| 202. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
85.14 |
0.9567 |
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273 |
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82.41 |
2010-01-26 |
| 203. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
85.14 |
0.8722 |
0.0096 |
285 |
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85.14 |
2009-11-13 |
| 204. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
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0.9342 |
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434 |
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2010-09-02 |
| 205. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
85.08 |
1.0768 |
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295 |
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85.08 |
2009-11-09 |
| 206. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
84.93 |
0.8890 |
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199 |
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77.73 |
2009-12-07 |
| 207. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
84.91 |
1.0214 |
-0.1024 |
281 |
1 |
84.91 |
2012-07-29 |
| 208. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
84.91 |
0.9176 |
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84.91 |
2013-05-22 |
| 209. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
84.64 |
0.9893 |
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323 |
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84.64 |
2009-12-03 |
| 210. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
84.59 |
1.0154 |
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351 |
1 |
84.59 |
2009-10-23 |
| 211. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
84.46 |
0.9731 |
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129 |
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66.25 |
2009-10-29 |
| 212. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
84.27 |
0.9936 |
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311 |
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82.44 |
2009-10-23 |
| 213. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
84.13 |
0.9234 |
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1 |
84.13 |
2009-10-02 |
| 214. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
84.08 |
1.0029 |
-0.1415 |
209 |
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84.08 |
2009-10-02 |
| 215. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
84.06 |
0.9275 |
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211 |
2 |
82.81 |
2009-10-23 |
| 216. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
84.06 |
1.0799 |
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1 |
84.06 |
2016-05-03 |
| 217. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
83.81 |
0.9622 |
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392 |
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83.39 |
2009-10-02 |
| 218. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
83.77 |
0.9619 |
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2009-10-02 |
| 219. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
83.75 |
1.0346 |
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244 |
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2010-01-21 |
| 220. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
83.49 |
0.9894 |
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72.45 |
2009-11-27 |
| 221. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
83.05 |
1.0232 |
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236 |
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83.05 |
2012-10-02 |
| 222. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
82.76 |
1.0214 |
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166 |
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82.76 |
2009-10-15 |
| 223. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
82.65 |
1.0379 |
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82.65 |
2009-10-29 |
| 224. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
82.33 |
0.9330 |
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82.33 |
2009-10-04 |
| 225. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
81.86 |
0.9673 |
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2013-05-22 |
| 226. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
81.40 |
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81.40 |
2009-10-04 |
| 227. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
81.25 |
0.9597 |
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81.25 |
2009-10-23 |
| 228. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
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2009-10-02 |
| 229. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
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2009-10-02 |
| 230. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
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0.8981 |
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2009-10-02 |
| 231. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
80.95 |
0.9910 |
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80.95 |
2009-11-27 |
| 232. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
80.60 |
0.9691 |
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223 |
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70.99 |
2009-11-27 |
| 233. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
80.57 |
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2009-10-04 |
| 234. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
79.91 |
0.9546 |
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2009-12-13 |
| 235. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
79.87 |
1.0150 |
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2009-10-16 |
| 236. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
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0.9693 |
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2009-10-02 |
| 237. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
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2010-02-03 |
| 238. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
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2010-01-21 |
| 239. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
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1.0211 |
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2009-12-07 |
| 240. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
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2012-07-29 |
| 241. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
77.82 |
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2009-10-29 |
| 242. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
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0.8845 |
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2009-10-02 |
| 243. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
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2009-10-16 |
| 244. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
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2009-10-15 |
| 245. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
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2009-10-07 |
| 246. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
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2009-12-13 |
| 247. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
75.06 |
1.0033 |
-0.2367 |
189 |
1 |
75.06 |
2009-10-04 |
| 248. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
74.94 |
0.9359 |
-0.1244 |
353 |
1 |
74.94 |
2009-10-23 |
| 249. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
74.84 |
0.9023 |
-0.0885 |
231 |
1 |
74.84 |
2012-07-29 |
| 250. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
74.25 |
0.9540 |
-0.1910 |
285 |
1 |
74.25 |
2009-10-02 |
| 251. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
73.19 |
0.9646 |
-0.2118 |
264 |
2 |
64.38 |
2009-10-02 |
| 252. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
72.84 |
0.9601 |
-0.2054 |
308 |
1 |
72.84 |
2009-10-02 |
| 253. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
72.06 |
0.9266 |
-0.1846 |
267 |
1 |
72.06 |
2009-10-29 |
| 254. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
71.97 |
0.9946 |
-0.2539 |
246 |
1 |
71.97 |
2009-11-09 |
| 255. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
69.97 |
1.0034 |
-0.2849 |
302 |
1 |
69.97 |
2009-11-21 |
| 256. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
69.57 |
0.8852 |
-0.1673 |
201 |
1 |
69.57 |
2009-10-23 |
| 257. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
67.97 |
0.9365 |
-0.2361 |
248 |
1 |
67.97 |
2009-10-02 |
| 258. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
67.11 |
0.8105 |
-0.1248 |
204 |
1 |
67.11 |
2009-10-29 |
| 259. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
62.75 |
0.9986 |
-0.3536 |
283 |
1 |
62.75 |
2009-10-02 |
| 260. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
52.35 |
1.0714 |
-0.5449 |
129 |
1 |
52.35 |
2009-10-23 |