| ID |
Text |
Length |
Races |
Difficulty Rating |
| 1 |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," "point," and "straig... |
464 |
733 |
0.9139 |
| 7 |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast... |
398 |
392 |
1.0119 |
| 46 |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motives, with the higher ... |
419 |
156 |
0.9643 |
| 69 |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find my favorite axe. Do... |
434 |
982 |
0.9791 |
| 73 |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritter and waste the hour... |
456 |
170 |
1.0793 |
| 129 |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that urban herding and its... |
404 |
1,038 |
0.9805 |
| 155 |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened... |
393 |
364 |
1.0189 |
| 219 |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were working for the local gov... |
469 |
164 |
1.0309 |
| 232 |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been the world's number ... |
427 |
130 |
0.9318 |
| 242 |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, manager, computer pro... |
399 |
133 |
0.9615 |
| 269 |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the most common pairing... |
430 |
155 |
0.9960 |
| 272 |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to be mass produced, a... |
396 |
128 |
0.9511 |
| 278 |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by August Dvorak, a profes... |
393 |
136 |
0.9397 |
| 410 |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the generations that for every... |
379 |
58 |
0.9851 |
| 425 |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilibrates with the high-... |
440 |
56 |
0.9949 |
| 433 |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air l... |
429 |
70 |
1.0103 |
| 445 |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because it is pious, or is i... |
430 |
56 |
1.0772 |
| 456 |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going in the drink and I am... |
487 |
69 |
1.0603 |
| 462 |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over the surrounding peop... |
376 |
344 |
0.9690 |
| 465 |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in communication with eac... |
369 |
912 |
0.9504 |
| 472 |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concerned about the growing... |
383 |
339 |
0.9999 |
| 490 |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary animus against private p... |
471 |
65 |
0.9722 |
| 551 |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy literally everything. An... |
413 |
175 |
1.0203 |
| 569 |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisco across the Sierra ... |
448 |
157 |
0.9430 |
| 576 |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot day and into San Franc... |
576 |
64 |
1.0119 |
| 591 |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I'm older now'n he ev... |
445 |
146 |
0.9857 |
| 594 |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on ... |
535 |
51 |
1.0932 |
| 603 |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement without the overt... |
389 |
142 |
0.9700 |
| 634 |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. The common perception ... |
428 |
152 |
0.9793 |
| 639 |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people who thought their bo... |
400 |
160 |
1.0141 |
| 652 |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on people almost 20 years.... |
411 |
75 |
1.0451 |
| 661 |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in amateur races, tryin... |
469 |
64 |
1.0225 |
| 672 |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again... |
397 |
152 |
0.9740 |
| 683 |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter how unlikely it seems... |
406 |
147 |
1.0891 |
| 709 |
Bullet Tooth Tony: "A bookie's got blagged last night." Avi: "Blagged? Do me a f... |
415 |
111 |
0.8216 |
| 718 |
And then I hear the best thing to do is feed 'em to pigs. You gotta starve the p... |
664 |
43 |
1.0194 |
| 721 |
The car has stopped. Vinny: "What have you stopped here for? What's wrong with t... |
494 |
121 |
0.8178 |
| 740 |
So, ahem, how much is it, then, Tom? - You know how much, Nick. - And that inclu... |
607 |
43 |
0.8809 |
| 743 |
What else do I get with it? - You get a gold-plated Rolls Royce, as long as you ... |
446 |
126 |
0.8987 |
| 1710003 |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary animus against private p... |
471 |
2,636 |
1.0021 |
| 1810002 |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill ... |
607 |
1,106 |
1.0168 |
| 3090002 |
The entrepreneurial record is writ full of entrepreneurs who "should" succeed bu... |
519 |
1,031 |
0.9717 |
| 3090004 |
At a recent conference at MIT on business opportunities in Brazil, one of the sp... |
583 |
1 |
0.6122 |
| 3090008 |
I will confess up front that these are weighty issues, some of which I myself ra... |
475 |
1,112 |
1.0007 |
| 3090013 |
So Shah convinced his landlord, a teacher on summer break, to drop him off in a ... |
520 |
346 |
0.9705 |
| 3090015 |
If I tell you what you already believe, then you may like me or feel comforted, ... |
579 |
385 |
1.0282 |
| 3100012 |
Very well, gentlemen. This, and maybe other similar things, is what I have to sa... |
464 |
118 |
1.0487 |
| 3100037 |
We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. A full commitment's ... |
387 |
130 |
0.9923 |
| 3100045 |
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ran... |
458 |
91 |
1.0153 |
| 3100048 |
Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in... |
491 |
94 |
0.9967 |
| 3100055 |
At a peace rally in Philadelphia in 1966, a reporter asked me, "Are you from Nor... |
431 |
77 |
0.9158 |
| 3100063 |
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he an... |
459 |
136 |
1.0786 |
| 3100064 |
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he an... |
459 |
144 |
1.0575 |
| 3100070 |
But pure, unadulterated feelings are dangerous in their own way. It is no easy f... |
420 |
94 |
1.0494 |
| 3100074 |
The feeling of having no power over people and events is generally unbearable to... |
384 |
125 |
0.9940 |
| 3100084 |
I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in... |
371 |
131 |
1.0039 |
| 3100099 |
As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed t... |
409 |
129 |
0.9812 |
| 3550100 |
I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, th... |
473 |
109 |
1.0627 |
| 3550124 |
My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I ke... |
433 |
134 |
1.0136 |
| 3550139 |
In the Age of Ancients the world was unformed, shrouded by fog. A land of gray c... |
490 |
64 |
0.9482 |
| 3550140 |
We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names, a... |
460 |
146 |
1.0538 |
| 3550168 |
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've ... |
418 |
144 |
0.9907 |
| 3550184 |
If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be n... |
481 |
63 |
0.9675 |
| 3550198 |
Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bam... |
384 |
119 |
1.0104 |
| 3550202 |
Tatum used a special device to elongate his descending pentatonic runs, to susta... |
490 |
62 |
0.9860 |
| 3550224 |
What the boys from Jiangxi had never even considered was that each of these crea... |
554 |
140 |
0.9751 |
| 3550226 |
Our prematurity brought a second big advantage: it forced us to communicate. A n... |
455 |
81 |
0.9987 |
| 3550227 |
When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a mes... |
392 |
117 |
1.0015 |
| 3620004 |
Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents... |
387 |
163 |
1.0032 |
| 3620012 |
Sutler can no longer trust you, can he, Mr. Creedy? And we both know why. After ... |
500 |
50 |
0.9724 |
| 3620018 |
Some believed that it was the work of God himself, but it was a pharmaceutical c... |
517 |
132 |
0.9826 |
| 3620020 |
The project, however, ends violently... but the efforts of those involved are no... |
403 |
364 |
1.0547 |
| 3620022 |
Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up-and-coming politici... |
608 |
147 |
0.9702 |
| 3620023 |
So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to yo... |
412 |
426 |
1.0589 |
| 3620042 |
No doubt when they speak of him as a Lion, they only mean he's as strong as a li... |
437 |
136 |
0.9801 |
| 3620059 |
The world's changing out there, there are a lot of new, exciting ideas running a... |
394 |
123 |
1.0449 |
| 3620066 |
There are a lot of humorous little episodes. I tried to get Father to let me tak... |
407 |
379 |
0.9675 |
| 3620084 |
Uh, do you realize that the dinosaurs dominated this globe for 140 million years... |
413 |
141 |
0.9443 |
| 3620174 |
They reminded me that it was my fate to pursue only phantoms, creatures whose re... |
557 |
162 |
1.0222 |
| 3620211 |
To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain... |
473 |
107 |
1.0346 |
| 3620230 |
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my... |
538 |
124 |
1.0582 |
| 3620239 |
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excell... |
563 |
134 |
0.9264 |
| 3620254 |
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravi... |
467 |
102 |
1.0314 |
| 3620266 |
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy list... |
359 |
132 |
1.0859 |
| 3620268 |
If you are one of earth's inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mo... |
390 |
120 |
1.0266 |
| 3620273 |
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him,... |
386 |
143 |
1.0269 |
| 3620277 |
Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright p... |
375 |
362 |
1.0336 |
| 3620307 |
At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Li... |
649 |
74 |
1.0331 |
| 3620331 |
I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all t... |
607 |
67 |
1.0424 |
| 3620344 |
The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dre... |
398 |
435 |
1.0202 |
| 3620357 |
You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and g... |
511 |
110 |
1.0709 |
| 3620376 |
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the... |
407 |
121 |
0.9892 |
| 3620412 |
It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't tr... |
419 |
159 |
0.9865 |
| 3620418 |
Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could th... |
404 |
405 |
1.0800 |
| 3620428 |
Why? Because we belong to the same riffraff, the same wretched pack, and because... |
551 |
130 |
0.9568 |
| 3620457 |
Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far... |
465 |
151 |
1.0028 |
| 3620551 |
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier tha... |
412 |
138 |
1.0126 |
| 3620597 |
When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and ei... |
435 |
89 |
0.9932 |
| 3620638 |
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I da... |
449 |
159 |
1.0207 |
| 3620646 |
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, t... |
435 |
184 |
0.9994 |
| 3620658 |
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever co... |
583 |
172 |
1.0053 |
| 3620711 |
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power... |
418 |
112 |
1.0402 |
| 3620734 |
It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of... |
696 |
69 |
0.9813 |
| 3620751 |
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life wa... |
582 |
157 |
1.0180 |
| 3620754 |
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. I... |
413 |
151 |
1.0070 |
| 3620761 |
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen be... |
454 |
161 |
1.0184 |
| 3620794 |
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And tha... |
461 |
163 |
0.9981 |
| 3620826 |
Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cut... |
540 |
1 |
0.6749 |
| 3620830 |
And so maybe if you could go to someone, the stranger the better, and give them ... |
662 |
26 |
1.0494 |
| 3620878 |
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the near... |
427 |
102 |
1.0560 |
| 3620889 |
Anyway, it's best not to think about them, as if you do it makes the discussions... |
442 |
101 |
1.0948 |
| 3620909 |
In a town of moderate size, two men lived in neighbouring houses; but they had n... |
607 |
72 |
1.0439 |
| 3620914 |
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for trut... |
378 |
391 |
1.0283 |
| 3620931 |
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of re... |
502 |
191 |
1.0184 |
| 3620979 |
Judges are picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy... |
397 |
410 |
1.0274 |
| 3620991 |
Three kings protested to me, that in their whole reigns they never did once pref... |
465 |
157 |
1.0342 |
| 3621025 |
There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or e... |
407 |
368 |
0.9467 |
| 3621045 |
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's... |
462 |
1 |
0.6288 |
| 3621109 |
Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let ma... |
500 |
176 |
1.0175 |
| 3621148 |
Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant,... |
438 |
1 |
0.6726 |
| 3621172 |
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I lo... |
501 |
167 |
1.0092 |
| 3621195 |
We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could mak... |
400 |
154 |
1.0748 |
| 3621212 |
He spoke and rose to full height, sword in air, then cleft the man's brow square... |
378 |
124 |
1.0097 |
| 3621218 |
My comrades, hardly strangers to pain before now, we all have weathered worse. S... |
451 |
152 |
0.9674 |
| 3621233 |
What I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally, you are very well p... |
389 |
119 |
1.0049 |
| 3621250 |
She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. S... |
408 |
139 |
1.0555 |
| 3621295 |
There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a tim... |
554 |
118 |
1.0630 |
| 3621306 |
When you go into the ER, one of the first things they ask you to do is rate your... |
542 |
1 |
0.8091 |
| 3621335 |
A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You tak... |
453 |
165 |
0.9971 |
| 3621369 |
I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel ... |
448 |
115 |
0.8780 |
| 3621391 |
There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your proble... |
463 |
151 |
0.9786 |
| 3621435 |
Vincent, Mr. Joe Zasa now owns what used to be the Corleone family business in N... |
374 |
320 |
0.9729 |
| 3621468 |
I would say he has quite a few problems. His energy seems to go in the wrong pla... |
396 |
145 |
1.0574 |
| 3621597 |
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love wit... |
408 |
413 |
1.0415 |
| 3622109 |
Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us s... |
683 |
65 |
0.9815 |
| 3622168 |
A good cook changes his knife once a year because he cuts. A mediocre cook chang... |
628 |
57 |
1.0476 |
| 3640283 |
Opponents of a "scientific" approach to the social sciences claim that much of t... |
642 |
69 |
0.9697 |
| 3640480 |
The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewas... |
655 |
61 |
0.9976 |
| 3640508 |
On the way to the bus stop, Bill saw somebody he recognized walking towards him,... |
712 |
1 |
0.7603 |
| 3640530 |
I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, m... |
579 |
137 |
0.9759 |
| 3640536 |
There are many types of monsters that scare me: Monsters who cause troubles with... |
676 |
60 |
1.0195 |
| 3640551 |
A swimming pool not unlike any other pool, a structure built of tile and cement ... |
494 |
139 |
0.9656 |
| 3640586 |
You and a criminal accomplice are hauled down to the police station and each put... |
612 |
50 |
1.0152 |
| 3640596 |
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wre... |
580 |
149 |
0.9733 |
| 3640601 |
The universe divided as the heart and mind collided with the people left unguide... |
429 |
128 |
1.0233 |
| 3640614 |
I basically know of two principles for treating complicated systems in simple wa... |
568 |
118 |
0.9903 |
| 3640620 |
All eyes are on you. It's time to show them what you're made of. There's no room... |
442 |
166 |
1.0486 |
| 3640680 |
The rotten tiles broke with a noise of disaster and the man barely had time to l... |
617 |
68 |
0.9789 |
| 3640681 |
I think about all the people I've loved, now long gone. I think about my beautif... |
430 |
87 |
1.0481 |
| 3640793 |
You're a natural born soldier. You're not the grow old gracefully type. Same for... |
427 |
1 |
0.7712 |
| 3640828 |
Don't look so disappointed, dear one. Just try them on. Today is a day to celebr... |
497 |
136 |
1.0361 |
| 3640944 |
I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self... |
601 |
53 |
0.9868 |
| 3640949 |
In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothi... |
494 |
77 |
1.0584 |
| 3640999 |
My beloved wife, I have missed you terribly. Thank you for returning Lady Bolton... |
544 |
113 |
0.9594 |
| 3641010 |
He has a life, a real life here. One that keeps him grounded and decent. As you'... |
471 |
99 |
1.0463 |
| 3641027 |
Do you think we're wealthy? Wealthy people drive fancy cars, they have fresh pas... |
676 |
47 |
0.9762 |
| 3641172 |
Fifteen years ago, there was a war. Well, war's broken out plenty of times befor... |
526 |
150 |
1.0264 |
| 3700003 |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and then let them practic... |
493 |
149 |
0.9752 |
| 3810410 |
I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields,... |
508 |
87 |
1.0490 |
| 3810572 |
His gaze is from the passing of bars so exhausted that it doesn't hold a thing a... |
519 |
174 |
1.0421 |
| 3810610 |
Oh, I don't know. I mean, what makes you think that elves are any more magical t... |
408 |
104 |
1.0129 |
| 3810657 |
Look, I run a show here. It's a lot of smoke and noise and it's strictly for the... |
437 |
101 |
1.0557 |
| 3810686 |
Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being th... |
426 |
99 |
1.0350 |
| 3810697 |
All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who ... |
484 |
84 |
1.0461 |
| 3810740 |
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a ... |
605 |
68 |
1.0204 |
| 3810763 |
You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's go... |
548 |
94 |
1.0578 |
| 3810769 |
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception. I have deceived my friends and ... |
475 |
147 |
1.0407 |
| 3810770 |
It may sound trite to you but I have found myself again after a number of years.... |
440 |
105 |
1.0542 |
| 3810905 |
If you're reading this, you've gotten out. And if you've come this far, maybe yo... |
436 |
103 |
1.0879 |
| 3811056 |
I don't know if I will have the time to write any more letters because I might b... |
374 |
118 |
1.0680 |
| 3811072 |
You're gonna stay here if I have to go inside and call your chief of police and ... |
492 |
98 |
1.0616 |
| 3811075 |
Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will mis... |
394 |
99 |
1.0329 |
| 3811078 |
Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a perso... |
645 |
50 |
1.0234 |
| 3811097 |
Looking back I know of one opportunity where an engineer came to me with an idea... |
515 |
79 |
1.0658 |
| 3811125 |
We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a ... |
527 |
186 |
1.0730 |
| 3811128 |
Shut up. Just shut up. Homer once said you love the mine more than your own fami... |
609 |
38 |
0.9759 |
| 3811137 |
I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life. She was like an angel. I just... |
568 |
99 |
1.0414 |
| 3811228 |
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Yet there are those who open many eyes. Ey... |
399 |
132 |
1.0526 |
| 3811247 |
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat heal... |
552 |
1 |
0.7635 |
| 3811292 |
I'm particular about cake. And I have to say it's been my experience that men bu... |
389 |
335 |
1.0090 |
| 3811317 |
I don't even want to talk about it anymore. What were you thinking? What was goi... |
529 |
141 |
0.9887 |
| 3811326 |
You said I sounded a bit callous in my last letter, Dad. Let me see if I can put... |
420 |
76 |
1.0359 |
| 3811327 |
It's inhuman to serve the same food day after day. The Geneva Convention prohibi... |
526 |
1 |
0.7652 |
| 3811371 |
It sits there looking at me and I don't know what it is. This case has dealt wit... |
606 |
44 |
0.9730 |
| 3811386 |
There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last ... |
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Psychologists often speak of the denial of an unthinkable evil or a misplacement... |
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With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himsel... |
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When you type faster than usual, it forces you to start looking ahead at the wor... |
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