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| 1 |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," "point," and "straig... |
464 |
1 |
0.9069 |
| 2 |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move in quite another dir... |
295 |
4 |
1.0061 |
| 3 |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a ... |
389 |
2 |
1.0765 |
| 4 |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting ... |
273 |
3 |
0.9542 |
| 5 |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new technology of capit... |
267 |
4 |
1.0894 |
| 6 |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the sweet earth. Only th... |
382 |
3 |
0.9172 |
| 7 |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast... |
398 |
3 |
0.9327 |
| 8 |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activi... |
281 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 9 |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were content to eat and dri... |
256 |
7 |
1.0679 |
| 10 |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate but equal" schools ... |
268 |
3 |
0.8387 |
| 11 |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot o... |
263 |
3 |
0.9905 |
| 12 |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides, attacking that batt... |
143 |
6 |
0.9625 |
| 13 |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have... |
320 |
2 |
1.0207 |
| 15 |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what t... |
251 |
3 |
0.0000 |
| 16 |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous man is beset on all si... |
323 |
2 |
1.0251 |
| 17 |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That show's called a pilot... |
357 |
3 |
0.8995 |
| 18 |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast an... |
191 |
2 |
0.8967 |
| 19 |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in France? Royale with ... |
168 |
4 |
0.8198 |
| 20 |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? Yes, and how many... |
302 |
5 |
0.9228 |
| 21 |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place... |
192 |
4 |
0.9138 |
| 22 |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not the quickest of cat... |
149 |
2 |
0.9521 |
| 23 |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling over one hundred po... |
206 |
6 |
0.8433 |
| 24 |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the greedy, and those who ... |
234 |
1 |
0.9021 |
| 25 |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the greedy, and those who ... |
355 |
2 |
1.0193 |
| 26 |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out war. The City of God ... |
311 |
2 |
1.0402 |
| 27 |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Just as I'm about to ki... |
174 |
3 |
0.9052 |
| 29 |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poets speak their hearts... |
269 |
6 |
1.0797 |
| 30 |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day begs the night for mer... |
255 |
2 |
0.9057 |
| 31 |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bullets rape the night... |
197 |
5 |
0.9811 |
| 32 |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving snow, across the fie... |
231 |
8 |
1.0489 |
| 33 |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that tie that's got you int... |
172 |
2 |
0.8828 |
| 34 |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burnin... |
211 |
1 |
0.9580 |
| 35 |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My parents to be were ... |
225 |
6 |
0.7571 |
| 37 |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but I know he was really... |
129 |
3 |
0.6832 |
| 38 |
Do you know why they call him Franky "Four Fingers" Doug? Because he makes stupi... |
214 |
3 |
0.9604 |
| 39 |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey was a gypsy bare-knu... |
285 |
5 |
0.7531 |
| 40 |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken too many disco bisc... |
174 |
4 |
0.9249 |
| 41 |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every game and con there's al... |
201 |
7 |
1.0831 |
| 43 |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. ... |
242 |
3 |
0.8002 |
| 44 |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultravio... |
240 |
1 |
0.7972 |
| 45 |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, bold, vicious. He'll ... |
199 |
2 |
0.7449 |
| 47 |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones, and that the oomn... |
259 |
1 |
0.8260 |
| 48 |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim,... |
190 |
1 |
0.7491 |
| 49 |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fear of physical pain ... |
254 |
5 |
0.9781 |
| 50 |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life mor... |
271 |
4 |
1.1298 |
| 51 |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoul... |
217 |
4 |
1.0480 |
| 52 |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all, they are emotional... |
317 |
4 |
1.0950 |
| 53 |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my rules and I drank v... |
166 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 54 |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think of so many cooler thi... |
310 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 55 |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a lot of stuff on TV, a... |
276 |
4 |
0.9722 |
| 56 |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in a light bulb with o... |
193 |
2 |
1.1249 |
| 58 |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able to fall. I mean, if y... |
233 |
2 |
1.0527 |
| 59 |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being consi... |
193 |
4 |
1.0353 |
| 60 |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time... |
184 |
3 |
1.0923 |
| 61 |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultimate example of a man ... |
211 |
4 |
1.0091 |
| 62 |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from mind forms, and it ... |
293 |
6 |
1.0162 |
| 63 |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from mind forms, and it ... |
133 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 64 |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contr... |
303 |
5 |
0.0000 |
| 66 |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is ... |
308 |
2 |
1.0822 |
| 67 |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on the horizon. You are... |
336 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 69 |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find my favorite axe. Do... |
434 |
1 |
0.7481 |
| 70 |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in... |
176 |
2 |
0.0000 |
| 71 |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in... |
289 |
5 |
0.9470 |
| 73 |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritter and waste the hour... |
456 |
4 |
1.1366 |
| 74 |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your clothes were stolen.... |
173 |
3 |
0.9963 |
| 75 |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he saw the world. As he ... |
168 |
7 |
0.9750 |
| 76 |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy have? So, let's just sa... |
261 |
1 |
0.6765 |
| 78 |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man's attitude goes some... |
226 |
3 |
1.0755 |
| 79 |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have not told you the type... |
205 |
2 |
0.7926 |
| 80 |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaws out. This is the m... |
235 |
3 |
0.8575 |
| 81 |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't... |
354 |
2 |
1.0230 |
| 82 |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Stephen, if you don't l... |
305 |
4 |
0.9753 |
| 83 |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book down. Because this bo... |
387 |
3 |
0.9730 |
| 84 |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable channels, the internet bl... |
308 |
2 |
0.9143 |
| 85 |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba with the apparent in... |
366 |
2 |
0.9057 |
| 86 |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming... |
220 |
4 |
1.1747 |
| 87 |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of where he grips it! It... |
296 |
3 |
0.7849 |
| 88 |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a syste... |
201 |
2 |
0.0000 |
| 89 |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the sa... |
364 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 90 |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the sa... |
282 |
1 |
0.8630 |
| 91 |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By h... |
189 |
3 |
0.8832 |
| 93 |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, there's the superhero... |
401 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 94 |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very own private beach. A... |
226 |
4 |
0.8095 |
| 95 |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominated by a couple of uni... |
322 |
6 |
0.8142 |
| 96 |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or t... |
256 |
7 |
0.9437 |
| 97 |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingl... |
193 |
6 |
1.0971 |
| 98 |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails you send, the more wo... |
290 |
1 |
0.9358 |
| 100 |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, i... |
266 |
2 |
1.1175 |
| 101 |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes - they call me ... |
234 |
4 |
1.1365 |
| 102 |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, a... |
288 |
4 |
1.2443 |
| 103 |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ... |
289 |
1 |
0.9067 |
| 104 |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in which its electrons a... |
211 |
4 |
1.0853 |
| 105 |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the... |
394 |
3 |
0.9102 |
| 106 |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. ... |
232 |
6 |
0.9801 |
| 109 |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I lo... |
229 |
3 |
1.0093 |
| 110 |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic membrane. The cytopla... |
237 |
2 |
0.8772 |
| 111 |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to consider much more than ... |
293 |
2 |
0.0000 |
| 113 |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "he's going to change... |
283 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 114 |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "he's going to change... |
393 |
3 |
1.0662 |
| 115 |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its point. Any movement ... |
323 |
5 |
0.8858 |
| 116 |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a pa... |
243 |
4 |
1.2065 |
| 118 |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially... |
335 |
1 |
0.9628 |
| 120 |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It would never hurt him ... |
317 |
1 |
1.0967 |
| 122 |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will... |
207 |
10 |
1.0966 |
| 123 |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna... |
271 |
4 |
0.9812 |
| 124 |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe... |
371 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 125 |
You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you... |
304 |
1 |
1.0200 |
| 126 |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What yo... |
373 |
4 |
1.2430 |
| 127 |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this e... |
340 |
2 |
1.0871 |
| 128 |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place... |
237 |
6 |
0.9410 |
| 129 |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that urban herding and its... |
404 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 130 |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck,... |
351 |
2 |
0.9954 |
| 131 |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direc... |
388 |
6 |
0.9548 |
| 133 |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to l... |
437 |
4 |
1.0383 |
| 134 |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fears crowding upon me. ... |
204 |
3 |
0.9373 |
| 135 |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impo... |
339 |
2 |
0.8119 |
| 136 |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage our own work, but ho... |
237 |
4 |
1.0009 |
| 138 |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requires. Unless they als... |
354 |
4 |
0.9124 |
| 139 |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness. It's much more abo... |
256 |
4 |
0.9791 |
| 140 |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe target for the enti... |
281 |
1 |
0.8370 |
| 141 |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes copies easy to distri... |
362 |
1 |
0.9799 |
| 142 |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial atmosphere for the r... |
267 |
1 |
0.9159 |
| 144 |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he needs. Brody's got f... |
289 |
2 |
0.9834 |
| 145 |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to ta... |
371 |
4 |
0.8354 |
| 146 |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was ... |
300 |
3 |
0.9071 |
| 147 |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, uh, people do... |
300 |
1 |
0.6643 |
| 148 |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your glide. Not only do you... |
318 |
2 |
0.8744 |
| 149 |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and move through it, we fir... |
378 |
4 |
0.9841 |
| 150 |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions ... |
197 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 151 |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions ... |
347 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 153 |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and warmer air holds more... |
308 |
4 |
0.9463 |
| 154 |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened... |
296 |
1 |
1.1173 |
| 155 |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened... |
393 |
3 |
0.9655 |
| 156 |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Penta... |
396 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 159 |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you ... |
217 |
2 |
0.0000 |
| 160 |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you ... |
379 |
2 |
0.8888 |
| 161 |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, ... |
180 |
4 |
0.9391 |
| 163 |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. And I'm telling you,... |
295 |
5 |
0.9100 |
| 164 |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this is a special book. It... |
213 |
2 |
1.1379 |
| 165 |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never actually entrust my he... |
200 |
3 |
0.0000 |
| 166 |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never actually entrust my he... |
317 |
3 |
0.9153 |
| 167 |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports and a gun? Who has ... |
217 |
2 |
0.7919 |
| 168 |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, ... |
204 |
2 |
1.0000 |
| 169 |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought mayb... |
209 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 170 |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran t... |
334 |
2 |
0.9741 |
| 171 |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a single one of us is goin... |
350 |
2 |
1.1667 |
| 172 |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Lik... |
225 |
3 |
0.9968 |
| 173 |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was fallin... |
258 |
5 |
0.8631 |
| 174 |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Christmas. But the grey f... |
276 |
3 |
1.0942 |
| 176 |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is you... |
250 |
2 |
1.0923 |
| 177 |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is you... |
136 |
2 |
0.0000 |
| 178 |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone, that everyone was ... |
273 |
5 |
1.0953 |
| 179 |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the whole city rose and... |
483 |
1 |
1.2443 |
| 180 |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the whole city rose and... |
348 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 181 |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I ... |
392 |
4 |
0.9524 |
| 182 |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I ... |
266 |
3 |
1.0000 |
| 183 |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "winner-take-all" econom... |
351 |
3 |
0.9865 |
| 184 |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but anemic job growth; b... |
209 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 185 |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thousand in all, spread a... |
323 |
9 |
1.0092 |
| 187 |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent bursts. Our missions last... |
303 |
7 |
0.9960 |
| 188 |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing that they are of short ... |
276 |
3 |
1.0975 |
| 189 |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, consider how they mig... |
261 |
1 |
1.0903 |
| 190 |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their live... |
265 |
8 |
1.1094 |
| 193 |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged ... |
362 |
1 |
0.7653 |
| 194 |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of nece... |
273 |
4 |
0.8493 |
| 195 |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of nece... |
145 |
3 |
0.0000 |
| 196 |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a theater, I either f... |
264 |
3 |
0.0000 |
| 197 |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying them in a thrift sho... |
276 |
1 |
0.8755 |
| 198 |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie M... |
392 |
4 |
0.9895 |
| 200 |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of forms, took a multipl... |
292 |
2 |
0.9358 |
| 202 |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German... |
367 |
4 |
0.9073 |
| 203 |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German... |
193 |
1 |
1.0451 |
| 204 |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so... |
341 |
5 |
1.0066 |
| 205 |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show i... |
247 |
2 |
1.0377 |
| 206 |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where we lay our scene), ... |
346 |
2 |
0.9654 |
| 207 |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What... |
284 |
1 |
0.8259 |
| 208 |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go... |
214 |
6 |
0.9447 |
| 209 |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to kno... |
314 |
4 |
1.0030 |
| 210 |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps ask... |
360 |
2 |
0.9361 |
| 211 |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thou... |
283 |
6 |
0.9429 |
| 212 |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Fillet of a fe... |
317 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 213 |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first time you've ever com... |
341 |
4 |
0.0000 |
| 215 |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a good living, the pol... |
337 |
5 |
1.1831 |
| 216 |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justice." But you don't a... |
167 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 217 |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies then they would... |
130 |
1 |
1.1096 |
| 218 |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were a serious man. A m... |
375 |
2 |
0.9443 |
| 220 |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went ... |
278 |
2 |
0.9658 |
| 221 |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, mos... |
246 |
3 |
0.9000 |
| 223 |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing c... |
268 |
3 |
1.0519 |
| 224 |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting, he... |
249 |
3 |
0.9963 |
| 226 |
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However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and economic aspects of t... |
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I must nevertheless point out that our profession very closely approaches the id... |
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0.9330 |
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To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous to speak of the voca... |
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1.0943 |
| 487 |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory, sharpness and accur... |
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5 |
1.0083 |
| 488 |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness and agility, a terr... |
184 |
1 |
0.7614 |
| 489 |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from their tenderest chil... |
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0.9884 |
| 490 |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary animus against private p... |
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0.9739 |
| 492 |
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1.0541 |
| 493 |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human beings, many of us partia... |
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| 495 |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous st... |
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0.9274 |
| 496 |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I breathe and walk and w... |
422 |
3 |
1.0425 |
| 498 |
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1.0344 |
| 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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I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, ... |
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| 511 |
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I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. When the world and his ... |
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I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. When the world and his ... |
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1.1189 |
| 522 |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesday and this little gu... |
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You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.9 percent of all the... |
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| 525 |
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0.7925 |
| 526 |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to wine, it's okay to ... |
300 |
7 |
0.8944 |
| 527 |
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412 |
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0.7875 |
| 529 |
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177 |
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1.1419 |
| 531 |
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384 |
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0.0000 |
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202 |
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213 |
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0.8896 |
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253 |
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1.0100 |
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258 |
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1.1164 |
| 538 |
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186 |
1 |
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237 |
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1.0490 |
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180 |
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| 542 |
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She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to be in the Spanish c... |
215 |
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0.8778 |
| 544 |
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193 |
9 |
1.3475 |
| 545 |
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206 |
6 |
0.9465 |
| 546 |
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205 |
1 |
0.9069 |
| 547 |
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193 |
3 |
0.8927 |
| 548 |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that th... |
200 |
5 |
1.0421 |
| 549 |
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210 |
2 |
1.1134 |
| 550 |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your heart to be near. An... |
166 |
6 |
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We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy literally everything. An... |
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We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy literally everything. An... |
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176 |
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275 |
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This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, and he picked up the ... |
281 |
4 |
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| 558 |
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341 |
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1.0358 |
| 559 |
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0.8636 |
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263 |
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There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the price of a memory is... |
252 |
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1.1176 |
| 565 |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep. And the lovesick... |
257 |
3 |
1.0881 |
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346 |
3 |
0.9761 |
| 567 |
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194 |
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352 |
3 |
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A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisco across the Sierra ... |
448 |
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0.8541 |
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There are very few things I wish I could change about those two decades, but the... |
303 |
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1.0909 |
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I was long into my second decade of living single before I came to see my friend... |
152 |
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0.9320 |
| 574 |
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341 |
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0.9992 |
| 575 |
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229 |
1 |
1.1072 |
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476 |
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0.9066 |
| 578 |
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225 |
1 |
0.9985 |
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100 |
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1.0000 |
| 582 |
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410 |
1 |
0.7576 |
| 584 |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave you with babies and ... |
367 |
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1.1340 |
| 585 |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stains on the carpet, st... |
192 |
2 |
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| 586 |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. We make a little hist... |
360 |
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1.0430 |
| 587 |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. We make a little hist... |
118 |
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0.0000 |
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243 |
6 |
1.0296 |
| 589 |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that... |
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He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on ... |
535 |
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1.1514 |
| 596 |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that he was fixin' to mak... |
220 |
1 |
0.0000 |
| 597 |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used ... |
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| 598 |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe in some kind of pat... |
183 |
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1.1647 |
| 599 |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darling, that you do. But... |
284 |
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0.7965 |
| 601 |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking at you I wonder if th... |
304 |
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1.0128 |
| 602 |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking at you I wonder if th... |
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Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement without the overt... |
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0.9905 |
| 605 |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a city that had yet to be... |
231 |
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0.8792 |
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With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican, and only two Thai r... |
154 |
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| 607 |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future southerners will enj... |
135 |
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0.9593 |
| 608 |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "not a story of conti... |
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0.8781 |
| 609 |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers ... |
353 |
2 |
1.0525 |
| 610 |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and foo... |
167 |
1 |
1.0412 |
| 611 |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow leaves falling (but f... |
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0.9988 |
| 612 |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow leaves falling (but f... |
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It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow leaves falling, a sho... |
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When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce section, or a half doze... |
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0.8294 |
| 618 |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that onion came from a f... |
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1.0426 |
| 620 |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairly determined ecologi... |
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| 621 |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to follow the intricate ... |
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The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns ou... |
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And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great m... |
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| 624 |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I... |
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| 625 |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and ... |
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The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy cows that grazed on g... |
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To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermark... |
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Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the... |
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It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produce a calorie of food.... |
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| 632 |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremarkable things: What i... |
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| 633 |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry... |
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| 634 |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. The common perception ... |
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1.0856 |
| 635 |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike race are fastest and... |
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| 636 |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike race are fastest and... |
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0.9787 |
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The need for food creates a relationship of fundamental importance between peopl... |
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And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill ... |
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