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12th #3 BrainyQuotes
| Sentence | Answer |
|---|---|
| An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a __________. Raymond Chandler | decadence |
| Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to _______ the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team. Frederick Smith | coalesce |
| The Stones were always _____ of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. Having a very clear idea of what they wanted to say they could go into a studio and make it all up on a three minute cut. Jon Landau | exemplary |
| I've found it easier to write, to _________ my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through. Jill Hennessy | coalesce |
| Make food a very part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food. Peace Pilgrim | incidental |
| You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner ___________ that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. Sheilah Graham | exuberance |
| Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. (Continue next slide!)) | |
| I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to _____. P.Yancey | decadence |
| Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was __________. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | exemplary |
| I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the _________ of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology. Robert Wyatt | exuberance |
| For me, novels _______ into being, rather than arrive fully formed. David Mitchell | coalesce |
| He wrung the tax code dry, penny by penny, with __________ business deductions and luxurious benefits as a college professor. | parsimonious |
| Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned ___________, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. John Ciard | prodigal |
| For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took _________ peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. James M. Barrie | surreptitious |
| The pattern of the ___________ is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. Edwin Louis Cole | prodigal |
| I want to see people turn and ________; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know. Anna Held | writhe |
| I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very _________, invisible way. Bruce Davison | surreptitious |
| The company became technically _____ in February, losing almost $ 500 million of investment. | insolvent |
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