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Text |
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Races |
Difficulty Rating |
| 1 |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," "point," and "straig... |
464 |
2 |
0.9471 |
| 2 |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move in quite another dir... |
295 |
13 |
0.9582 |
| 3 |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a ... |
389 |
2 |
0.9355 |
| 4 |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting ... |
273 |
12 |
0.9072 |
| 5 |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new technology of capit... |
267 |
6 |
1.0443 |
| 6 |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the sweet earth. Only th... |
382 |
3 |
0.9477 |
| 7 |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast... |
398 |
4 |
1.0996 |
| 8 |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activi... |
281 |
4 |
0.9624 |
| 9 |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were content to eat and dri... |
256 |
22 |
1.0974 |
| 10 |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate but equal" schools ... |
268 |
8 |
0.7810 |
| 11 |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot o... |
263 |
26 |
0.9560 |
| 13 |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have... |
320 |
1 |
0.7645 |
| 14 |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible smell you've discover... |
106 |
18 |
0.9556 |
| 15 |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what t... |
251 |
14 |
1.0140 |
| 16 |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous man is beset on all si... |
323 |
2 |
0.8515 |
| 17 |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That show's called a pilot... |
357 |
1 |
1.2233 |
| 18 |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast an... |
191 |
28 |
1.0270 |
| 19 |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in France? Royale with ... |
168 |
41 |
0.9529 |
| 20 |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? Yes, and how many... |
302 |
14 |
1.0048 |
| 21 |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place... |
192 |
36 |
0.8842 |
| 22 |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not the quickest of cat... |
149 |
43 |
1.0902 |
| 24 |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the greedy, and those who ... |
234 |
17 |
0.9516 |
| 25 |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the greedy, and those who ... |
355 |
6 |
0.8334 |
| 26 |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out war. The City of God ... |
311 |
10 |
1.0443 |
| 28 |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day begs the night for mer... |
255 |
24 |
1.0921 |
| 29 |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poets speak their hearts... |
269 |
25 |
1.0634 |
| 31 |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bullets rape the night... |
197 |
37 |
1.0966 |
| 32 |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving snow, across the fie... |
231 |
22 |
1.0300 |
| 36 |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My parents to be were ... |
355 |
2 |
1.0208 |
| 37 |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but I know he was really... |
129 |
43 |
1.0581 |
| 38 |
Do you know why they call him Franky "Four Fingers" Doug? Because he makes stupi... |
214 |
15 |
1.0153 |
| 39 |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey was a gypsy bare-knu... |
285 |
8 |
0.9128 |
| 41 |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every game and con there's al... |
201 |
32 |
1.0604 |
| 42 |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will d... |
297 |
25 |
1.0937 |
| 43 |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. ... |
242 |
26 |
0.8513 |
| 45 |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, bold, vicious. He'll ... |
199 |
28 |
0.8571 |
| 46 |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motives, with the higher ... |
419 |
8 |
0.8711 |
| 47 |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones, and that the oomn... |
259 |
12 |
1.0252 |
| 48 |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim,... |
190 |
30 |
0.9407 |
| 50 |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life mor... |
271 |
36 |
1.0598 |
| 51 |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoul... |
217 |
42 |
0.9832 |
| 52 |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all, they are emotional... |
317 |
25 |
0.9579 |
| 53 |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my rules and I drank v... |
166 |
14 |
0.9462 |
| 54 |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think of so many cooler thi... |
310 |
11 |
0.9248 |
| 55 |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a lot of stuff on TV, a... |
276 |
9 |
0.9225 |
| 58 |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able to fall. I mean, if y... |
233 |
27 |
0.9701 |
| 59 |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being consi... |
193 |
32 |
1.0187 |
| 61 |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultimate example of a man ... |
211 |
14 |
0.9551 |
| 62 |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from mind forms, and it ... |
293 |
16 |
0.9637 |
| 63 |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from mind forms, and it ... |
133 |
25 |
1.0334 |
| 64 |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contr... |
303 |
16 |
1.0496 |
| 67 |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on the horizon. You are... |
336 |
20 |
1.0225 |
| 68 |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on the horizon. You are... |
162 |
13 |
1.0125 |
| 69 |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find my favorite axe. Do... |
434 |
5 |
0.9889 |
| 70 |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in... |
176 |
32 |
1.0089 |
| 71 |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in... |
289 |
17 |
1.0022 |
| 73 |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritter and waste the hour... |
456 |
1 |
1.1255 |
| 74 |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your clothes were stolen.... |
173 |
35 |
0.9706 |
| 76 |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy have? So, let's just sa... |
261 |
18 |
1.0284 |
| 79 |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have not told you the type... |
205 |
24 |
0.9073 |
| 80 |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaws out. This is the m... |
235 |
10 |
0.9601 |
| 81 |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't... |
354 |
18 |
1.0666 |
| 82 |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Stephen, if you don't l... |
305 |
11 |
0.9406 |
| 83 |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book down. Because this bo... |
387 |
5 |
0.9576 |
| 84 |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable channels, the internet bl... |
308 |
15 |
0.9026 |
| 85 |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba with the apparent in... |
366 |
1 |
0.9610 |
| 86 |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming... |
220 |
14 |
1.1360 |
| 87 |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of where he grips it! It... |
296 |
9 |
0.9042 |
| 89 |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the sa... |
364 |
7 |
1.0147 |
| 91 |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By h... |
189 |
23 |
0.8630 |
| 92 |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many dangerous people who... |
148 |
30 |
1.0936 |
| 93 |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, there's the superhero... |
401 |
7 |
0.8802 |
| 94 |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very own private beach. A... |
226 |
14 |
1.0563 |
| 95 |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominated by a couple of uni... |
322 |
10 |
0.9004 |
| 96 |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or t... |
256 |
32 |
0.9750 |
| 97 |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingl... |
193 |
43 |
0.9509 |
| 98 |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails you send, the more wo... |
290 |
19 |
1.0468 |
| 100 |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, i... |
266 |
7 |
1.0526 |
| 101 |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes - they call me ... |
234 |
20 |
1.1003 |
| 102 |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, a... |
288 |
14 |
1.0412 |
| 103 |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ... |
289 |
16 |
1.0938 |
| 105 |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the... |
394 |
8 |
0.8832 |
| 108 |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told Bill that if ... |
392 |
12 |
1.0422 |
| 109 |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I lo... |
229 |
14 |
1.0204 |
| 110 |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic membrane. The cytopla... |
237 |
23 |
0.8877 |
| 111 |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to consider much more than ... |
293 |
20 |
0.9274 |
| 112 |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "he's going to change... |
186 |
13 |
0.8191 |
| 113 |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "he's going to change... |
283 |
11 |
0.8983 |
| 115 |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its point. Any movement ... |
323 |
14 |
0.9920 |
| 118 |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially... |
335 |
7 |
0.9161 |
| 119 |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of... |
176 |
58 |
1.0016 |
| 120 |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It would never hurt him ... |
317 |
8 |
0.9880 |
| 121 |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It would never hurt him ... |
363 |
11 |
1.0482 |
| 122 |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will... |
207 |
41 |
1.0050 |
| 124 |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe... |
371 |
3 |
0.9328 |
| 126 |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What yo... |
373 |
15 |
1.0544 |
| 127 |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this e... |
340 |
10 |
1.0328 |
| 129 |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that urban herding and its... |
404 |
6 |
0.9091 |
| 130 |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck,... |
351 |
23 |
1.0970 |
| 131 |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direc... |
388 |
4 |
0.9386 |
| 133 |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to l... |
437 |
1 |
1.0791 |
| 135 |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impo... |
339 |
22 |
1.0231 |
| 136 |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage our own work, but ho... |
237 |
35 |
1.0575 |
| 137 |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, l... |
201 |
30 |
1.0452 |
| 138 |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requires. Unless they als... |
354 |
9 |
0.9254 |
| 139 |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness. It's much more abo... |
256 |
11 |
0.9151 |
| 140 |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe target for the enti... |
281 |
15 |
1.0048 |
| 145 |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to ta... |
371 |
20 |
0.9973 |
| 146 |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was ... |
300 |
8 |
0.9333 |
| 147 |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, uh, people do... |
300 |
14 |
0.9374 |
| 148 |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your glide. Not only do you... |
318 |
13 |
0.9260 |
| 149 |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and move through it, we fir... |
378 |
9 |
1.0567 |
| 150 |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions ... |
197 |
13 |
0.9579 |
| 151 |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions ... |
347 |
8 |
0.9303 |
| 153 |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and warmer air holds more... |
308 |
12 |
0.9902 |
| 154 |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened... |
296 |
7 |
1.0105 |
| 155 |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened... |
393 |
3 |
0.9050 |
| 156 |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Penta... |
396 |
2 |
1.0742 |
| 157 |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of that math problem o... |
244 |
34 |
1.0440 |
| 158 |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve math puzzles, or cre... |
406 |
7 |
1.0330 |
| 160 |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you ... |
379 |
6 |
0.9832 |
| 162 |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, because of your fondness f... |
363 |
4 |
0.9582 |
| 163 |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. And I'm telling you,... |
295 |
11 |
0.9365 |
| 165 |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never actually entrust my he... |
200 |
18 |
0.8987 |
| 166 |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never actually entrust my he... |
317 |
5 |
0.9078 |
| 167 |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports and a gun? Who has ... |
217 |
37 |
1.0067 |
| 168 |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, ... |
204 |
35 |
0.8217 |
| 169 |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought mayb... |
209 |
13 |
0.8941 |
| 170 |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran t... |
334 |
3 |
1.0001 |
| 171 |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a single one of us is goin... |
350 |
16 |
1.1376 |
| 172 |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Lik... |
225 |
15 |
1.0205 |
| 173 |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was fallin... |
258 |
11 |
0.9752 |
| 174 |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Christmas. But the grey f... |
276 |
23 |
1.0470 |
| 176 |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is you... |
250 |
24 |
1.1038 |
| 177 |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is you... |
136 |
18 |
0.9943 |
| 178 |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone, that everyone was ... |
273 |
21 |
0.9953 |
| 179 |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the whole city rose and... |
483 |
3 |
0.9553 |
| 180 |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the whole city rose and... |
348 |
5 |
1.0860 |
| 181 |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I ... |
392 |
2 |
0.9029 |
| 182 |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I ... |
266 |
9 |
0.8539 |
| 183 |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "winner-take-all" econom... |
351 |
12 |
0.8351 |
| 184 |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but anemic job growth; b... |
209 |
18 |
0.9199 |
| 185 |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thousand in all, spread a... |
323 |
3 |
0.9792 |
| 186 |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thousand in all, spread a... |
135 |
19 |
0.9506 |
| 187 |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent bursts. Our missions last... |
303 |
24 |
0.9909 |
| 188 |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing that they are of short ... |
276 |
16 |
0.9820 |
| 189 |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, consider how they mig... |
261 |
9 |
0.9733 |
| 190 |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their live... |
265 |
27 |
1.1075 |
| 191 |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generatio... |
169 |
18 |
0.9957 |
| 192 |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of ... |
310 |
3 |
1.0097 |
| 193 |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged ... |
362 |
9 |
0.9239 |
| 194 |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of nece... |
273 |
25 |
1.0347 |
| 196 |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a theater, I either f... |
264 |
19 |
1.0431 |
| 197 |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying them in a thrift sho... |
276 |
4 |
1.0275 |
| 198 |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie M... |
392 |
1 |
1.0679 |
| 199 |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie M... |
269 |
24 |
1.0512 |
| 200 |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of forms, took a multipl... |
292 |
2 |
0.9579 |
| 202 |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German... |
367 |
6 |
0.9331 |
| 203 |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German... |
193 |
17 |
0.9737 |
| 204 |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so... |
341 |
4 |
1.0971 |
| 206 |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where we lay our scene), ... |
346 |
14 |
0.8657 |
| 207 |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What... |
284 |
12 |
0.8822 |
| 208 |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go... |
214 |
29 |
1.0496 |
| 209 |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to kno... |
314 |
22 |
1.0754 |
| 210 |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps ask... |
360 |
13 |
0.9145 |
| 211 |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thou... |
283 |
8 |
0.9977 |
| 212 |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Fillet of a fe... |
317 |
9 |
0.8814 |
| 213 |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first time you've ever com... |
341 |
9 |
1.0790 |
| 215 |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a good living, the pol... |
337 |
4 |
0.9535 |
| 216 |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justice." But you don't a... |
167 |
18 |
1.0138 |
| 217 |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies then they would... |
130 |
25 |
1.0584 |
| 218 |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were a serious man. A m... |
375 |
8 |
1.0920 |
| 220 |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went ... |
278 |
14 |
1.0318 |
| 221 |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, mos... |
246 |
22 |
0.9816 |
| 222 |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing c... |
377 |
10 |
1.0797 |
| 223 |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing c... |
268 |
26 |
0.9526 |
| 224 |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting, he... |
249 |
19 |
1.0564 |
| 225 |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting, he... |
158 |
16 |
1.0343 |
| 226 |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries of the world, and h... |
317 |
9 |
0.9884 |
| 227 |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europe. It was said that ... |
145 |
22 |
0.8669 |
| 229 |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images we store in the memor... |
239 |
32 |
1.0320 |
| 230 |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to communicate with oth... |
267 |
20 |
1.0276 |
| 231 |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he had of securing reel... |
346 |
6 |
0.8600 |
| 232 |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been the world's number ... |
427 |
2 |
0.9124 |
| 233 |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its inexorable, irreversi... |
265 |
17 |
0.8726 |
| 235 |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well. Th... |
163 |
7 |
1.0952 |
| 238 |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work;... |
294 |
10 |
1.0859 |
| 239 |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discovers exactly what the U... |
276 |
7 |
0.9865 |
| 240 |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discovers exactly what the U... |
207 |
7 |
1.2492 |
| 241 |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that ... |
247 |
8 |
1.0853 |
| 242 |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, manager, computer pro... |
399 |
4 |
0.8834 |
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Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, manager, computer pro... |
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When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears directly on paper. When ... |
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Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, meaning "work," and the... |
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A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, just as a company needs... |
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Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to type without looking... |
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| 254 |
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Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of two single-finger m... |
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The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fast as you can think. ... |
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| 260 |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of ... |
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17 |
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Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important to be able to make it... |
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| 263 |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by putting them in all c... |
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| 264 |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to control. You will notic... |
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The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on it, and the type ba... |
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Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the most common pairing... |
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Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the English language so t... |
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In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to be mass produced, a... |
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| 273 |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more e... |
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Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyboard. These competit... |
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According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by August Dvorak, a profes... |
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| 279 |
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| 281 |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak is flawed and incom... |
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I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportunity to succeed. The... |
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| 283 |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every oth... |
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| 284 |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: most of the people on... |
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| 285 |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game with no rules at all... |
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Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced by a few cues and que... |
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Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced by a few cues and que... |
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At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all, they were not abso... |
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| 292 |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all, they were not abso... |
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One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - they're about armies ... |
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| 294 |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal before they master it... |
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| 297 |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player's regime of compete... |
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It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my future. The locked and... |
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Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked up the telephone and... |
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| 300 |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am I getting the brain... |
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| 301 |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or... |
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| 302 |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk... |
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Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, l... |
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I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the world turns ... |
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| 306 |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airpl... |
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| 307 |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I know you know this bl... |
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| 310 |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to s... |
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| 311 |
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| 312 |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and German is spoken a littl... |
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| 313 |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of a mission? Should yo... |
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| 315 |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns... |
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Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the audience's patience ... |
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The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what... |
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1.0695 |
| 319 |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you first find the cliche y... |
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One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible thought, and don't a... |
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We all know people who are very bright but who do not always shine when it comes... |
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| 323 |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a... |
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| 324 |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things and events are object... |
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Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things and events are object... |
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I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Getting fired, despite ... |
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| 327 |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner. Going i... |
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1.0189 |
| 328 |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - entails relocating to on... |
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Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use... |
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| 334 |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her sta... |
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| 336 |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those wh... |
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| 337 |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak thro... |
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Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the ... |
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| 340 |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I must be traveling o... |
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| 342 |
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| 344 |
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| 345 |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childhood memories, where ... |
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Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape fr... |
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| 348 |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start with Logic. Days wil... |
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| 349 |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start with Logic. Even eat... |
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0.9813 |
| 350 |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like a weaver's masterpie... |
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| 351 |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my lif... |
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| 353 |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was born on the road, w... |
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1.1472 |
| 354 |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the ess... |
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| 355 |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. Wandering, I am lost ... |
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| 356 |
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1.0129 |
| 357 |
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| 358 |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no baggage, you just ge... |
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| 361 |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in this world. I got l... |
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| 362 |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue. It's no... |
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1.0596 |
| 363 |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue. It's no... |
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27 |
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| 364 |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a bridge, where the bri... |
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| 366 |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as the music's energy. In... |
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| 367 |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocative first lines that g... |
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| 369 |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A word like "fire" is ... |
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| 370 |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and the kids came from mi... |
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| 372 |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but never finished. He'd bee... |
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1.0613 |
| 373 |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but never finished. He'd bee... |
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| 374 |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you are wearing the correc... |
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| 377 |
There are still some places where you can get all you can eat for a fixed price.... |
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| 381 |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or lose many of the specia... |
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| 382 |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or lose many of the specia... |
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29 |
0.8965 |
| 383 |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic sensitivity, Ninja c... |
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0.8561 |
| 384 |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives by accepting the judg... |
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1.0060 |
| 386 |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior man. There are cert... |
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0.9941 |
| 388 |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for reveng... |
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0.8770 |
| 389 |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fana... |
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0.8808 |
| 390 |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can learn from men's per... |
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1.0321 |
| 391 |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on concepts of assertion, c... |
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| 392 |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by having a romance with a... |
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| 394 |
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| 395 |
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1.0164 |
| 396 |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but t... |
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| 397 |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but t... |
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| 398 |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been a source of continu... |
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| 399 |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguing interlude, we migh... |
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| 401 |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found the 25-pound bag of... |
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| 402 |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in the mind and in real... |
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1.0430 |
| 403 |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceiving of the being that... |
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1.0428 |
| 404 |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in the mind and in real... |
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1.0322 |
| 405 |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can be conceived and th... |
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0.9696 |
| 406 |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend interrelationships of... |
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0.8200 |
| 407 |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and find its optimum soluti... |
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1.0508 |
| 408 |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white. When an athlete tra... |
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1.0129 |
| 409 |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white. Red muscle fibers e... |
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0.9364 |
| 411 |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should too. Here's why: The c... |
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0.8921 |
| 413 |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them. The reason is that ... |
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1.0188 |
| 415 |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective communication. Wheth... |
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0.9449 |
| 416 |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions of the forebrain, ou... |
244 |
18 |
0.9960 |
| 417 |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive b... |
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0.9445 |
| 418 |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more successful they will... |
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1.0428 |
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| 421 |
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| 422 |
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| 423 |
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| 426 |
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| 427 |
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| 428 |
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| 429 |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, is the obvious source... |
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24 |
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| 431 |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we knew the reflectanc... |
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28 |
0.8214 |
| 434 |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air l... |
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0.9619 |
| 435 |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space sh... |
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32 |
0.9760 |
| 436 |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science,... |
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| 437 |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every action and decision, see... |
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| 438 |
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39 |
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| 441 |
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest hope. His soil is sti... |
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1.1382 |
| 442 |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infinity, there will be no... |
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9 |
0.9895 |
| 443 |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because it is pious, or is i... |
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| 444 |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of something led and somet... |
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| 446 |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, sometime in the early hour... |
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32 |
1.0253 |
| 448 |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while because she wouldn't... |
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| 449 |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while because she wouldn't... |
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1.0392 |
| 450 |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kidding. Sometimes I think... |
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1.0167 |
| 452 |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see if you're cowardly. B... |
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1.0297 |
| 453 |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, it costs five millio... |
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| 454 |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, it costs five millio... |
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| 455 |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a classic, been nicked o... |
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| 457 |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of tea. Underneath the fl... |
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19 |
1.1142 |
| 459 |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state and ultimately an emp... |
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| 460 |
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| 461 |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerabilities that the Spa... |
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0.8554 |
| 462 |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over the surrounding peop... |
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2 |
0.9493 |
| 463 |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous orbit is connected by... |
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18 |
0.9105 |
| 464 |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was written and the first ... |
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0.9064 |
| 465 |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in communication with eac... |
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0.8971 |
| 467 |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One su... |
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0.8461 |
| 468 |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." Reflecti... |
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| 469 |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." If he'd ... |
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0.9344 |
| 470 |
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| 471 |
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| 472 |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concerned about the growing... |
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5 |
0.8825 |
| 473 |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point in human civilizati... |
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13 |
0.9261 |
| 475 |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad... |
250 |
25 |
0.9911 |
| 476 |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craftsman's workshop and... |
350 |
11 |
0.9692 |
| 478 |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 100 AD. Wood and other... |
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3 |
1.0467 |
| 479 |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mashed into a pulp, whi... |
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| 480 |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enforce decisions or comp... |
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The development of a living body of literature became indicative of an advanced ... |
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At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity... |
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I must nevertheless point out that our profession very closely approaches the id... |
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There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory, sharpness and accur... |
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| 488 |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness and agility, a terr... |
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| 489 |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from their tenderest chil... |
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| 492 |
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous st... |
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| 495 |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous st... |
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| 496 |
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| 498 |
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| 499 |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were chosen for this occ... |
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| 500 |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on the ... |
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O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I beg you to observe ... |
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Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his hands seemed to doubt ... |
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It was evident that he came from the world where men could still sleep and remem... |
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| 505 |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived with him, it had been... |
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| 506 |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable... |
334 |
1 |
0.8487 |
| 508 |
This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. |
73 |
20 |
1.0572 |
| 509 |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, ... |
237 |
11 |
0.9894 |
| 511 |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her... |
236 |
26 |
1.0398 |
| 512 |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her... |
119 |
19 |
1.1547 |
| 513 |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told t... |
227 |
23 |
0.9661 |
| 514 |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told t... |
116 |
34 |
0.9949 |
| 515 |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. When the world and his ... |
397 |
4 |
1.1199 |
| 516 |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. When the world and his ... |
266 |
15 |
1.0378 |
| 517 |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary falls from grace. Hear... |
143 |
44 |
1.0784 |
| 518 |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Then the king of spivs... |
233 |
18 |
1.0450 |
| 519 |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wo... |
258 |
17 |
0.9472 |
| 520 |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from this hour. So long? The... |
123 |
58 |
1.0625 |
| 522 |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesday and this little gu... |
343 |
3 |
0.8209 |
| 523 |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like this: 1. Pick a large... |
443 |
1 |
0.9127 |
| 525 |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organisms that exist natur... |
232 |
22 |
0.9138 |
| 526 |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to wine, it's okay to ... |
300 |
14 |
0.9721 |
| 529 |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubbles. Carbon dioxide ga... |
177 |
31 |
0.9491 |
| 530 |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because... |
247 |
13 |
0.9511 |
| 531 |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up laboring over it. You h... |
384 |
1 |
0.9326 |
| 532 |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up laboring over it. You h... |
202 |
25 |
0.9540 |
| 535 |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is because of you. What other... |
253 |
18 |
1.0716 |
| 537 |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions and to express what y... |
258 |
19 |
0.9922 |
| 539 |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from moment to moment; it wil... |
237 |
20 |
0.9724 |
| 540 |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from moment to moment; it wil... |
180 |
16 |
1.0251 |
| 542 |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to be in the Spanish c... |
436 |
4 |
0.9344 |
| 544 |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how we're ending our la... |
193 |
22 |
0.9786 |
| 545 |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur, and the mouth, and... |
206 |
26 |
1.0406 |
| 546 |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walking through walls in t... |
205 |
19 |
1.0225 |
| 547 |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our las... |
193 |
22 |
0.9354 |
| 548 |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that th... |
200 |
20 |
1.0982 |
| 549 |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were bigger and brighter and... |
210 |
23 |
1.0841 |
| 552 |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the average household in E... |
253 |
13 |
0.9977 |
| 553 |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy literally everything. An... |
159 |
16 |
1.0214 |
| 554 |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still in circulation, the... |
176 |
36 |
1.0187 |
| 555 |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight lifts. They stay bel... |
275 |
12 |
1.0005 |
| 558 |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into the air. As he was f... |
341 |
4 |
0.9973 |
| 559 |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on... |
203 |
26 |
0.9760 |
| 560 |
When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles ... |
103 |
11 |
1.0587 |
| 561 |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts the most. I dream I... |
263 |
12 |
1.0093 |
| 566 |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood stock-still. In such a... |
346 |
5 |
0.9028 |
| 567 |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood stock-still. In such a... |
194 |
15 |
0.9297 |
| 568 |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the sta... |
352 |
4 |
0.9746 |
| 569 |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisco across the Sierra ... |
448 |
2 |
0.9113 |
| 570 |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties, yet none had found... |
241 |
14 |
0.9681 |
| 571 |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those two decades, but the... |
303 |
21 |
1.0737 |
| 572 |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those two decades, but the... |
118 |
29 |
1.1185 |
| 574 |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that years of evidence p... |
341 |
5 |
1.1940 |
| 576 |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot day and into San Franc... |
576 |
1 |
1.0958 |
| 577 |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot day and into San Franc... |
476 |
2 |
0.9937 |
| 578 |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot day and into San Franc... |
225 |
30 |
0.9565 |
| 580 |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breaking apart like I'm mad... |
341 |
6 |
1.0279 |
| 581 |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breaking apart like I'm mad... |
100 |
36 |
1.0701 |
| 582 |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out my heart and I'll fee... |
410 |
5 |
0.9731 |
| 583 |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through the roof of your mo... |
217 |
22 |
1.0910 |
| 584 |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave you with babies and ... |
367 |
4 |
1.0559 |
| 585 |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stains on the carpet, st... |
192 |
15 |
1.0491 |
| 586 |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. We make a little hist... |
360 |
14 |
1.1055 |
| 587 |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. We make a little hist... |
118 |
33 |
1.0986 |
| 588 |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh. But when I must rem... |
243 |
19 |
1.0782 |
| 589 |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that... |
337 |
1 |
0.8827 |
| 590 |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks ne... |
111 |
38 |
1.1775 |
| 591 |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I'm older now'n he ev... |
445 |
2 |
0.9680 |
| 592 |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I'm older now'n he ev... |
351 |
4 |
0.9770 |
| 593 |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I'm older now than he... |
142 |
39 |
0.8857 |
| 595 |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used ... |
389 |
10 |
1.1445 |
| 596 |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that he was fixin' to mak... |
220 |
31 |
1.1646 |
| 597 |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used ... |
168 |
9 |
1.0922 |
| 599 |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darling, that you do. But... |
284 |
7 |
0.9732 |
| 600 |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darling, that you do. But... |
158 |
10 |
0.8885 |
| 601 |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking at you I wonder if th... |
304 |
14 |
0.9800 |
| 602 |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking at you I wonder if th... |
165 |
32 |
1.0251 |
| 603 |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement without the overt... |
389 |
2 |
0.8415 |
| 604 |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement without the overt... |
299 |
13 |
0.9173 |
| 605 |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a city that had yet to be... |
231 |
26 |
0.8476 |
| 607 |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future southerners will enj... |
135 |
45 |
0.9840 |
| 608 |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "not a story of conti... |
267 |
2 |
0.8733 |
| 609 |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers ... |
353 |
4 |
0.8954 |
| 610 |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and foo... |
167 |
30 |
0.9936 |
| 611 |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow leaves falling (but f... |
360 |
2 |
0.9363 |
| 612 |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow leaves falling (but f... |
294 |
4 |
0.8968 |
| 614 |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow leaves falling, a sho... |
138 |
14 |
0.9438 |
| 615 |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescent tubes, the America... |
255 |
11 |
0.8329 |
| 616 |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce section, or a half doze... |
311 |
7 |
0.9322 |
| 617 |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce section, or a half doze... |
163 |
14 |
0.9180 |
| 618 |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that onion came from a f... |
318 |
5 |
0.9817 |
| 620 |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairly determined ecologi... |
272 |
6 |
1.0486 |
| 621 |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to follow the intricate ... |
188 |
25 |
1.0337 |
| 622 |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns ou... |
273 |
17 |
0.9501 |
| 623 |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great m... |
269 |
13 |
1.0472 |
| 624 |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I... |
178 |
21 |
0.9713 |
| 625 |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and ... |
473 |
1 |
1.0076 |
| 626 |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy cows that grazed on g... |
188 |
38 |
1.0446 |
| 627 |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermark... |
263 |
15 |
0.9913 |
| 628 |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermark... |
119 |
36 |
1.0830 |
| 631 |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produce a calorie of food.... |
185 |
17 |
0.9195 |
| 633 |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry... |
162 |
36 |
1.1223 |
| 634 |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. The common perception ... |
428 |
2 |
1.0139 |
| 635 |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike race are fastest and... |
224 |
11 |
0.9170 |
| 636 |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike race are fastest and... |
177 |
19 |
0.9540 |