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10th #5d
BrainyQuotes
| sentence | word |
|---|---|
| It does surprise me that intelligent people ... could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you ________ them, you somehow tame them. This argument...is very interesting, and very surprising. Meles Zenawi | appease |
| We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are __________ when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others. Mortimer Adler Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/k | altruistic |
| It is utterly false and cruelly __________ to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. Margaret Mead | arbitrary |
| Sir, __________ has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day. Caleb Cushing | allusion |
| Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes _________. John Dryden | assail |
| Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most ________ moments of my life. Danielle de Niese | banal |
| 'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the _________ part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state. Walton Goggins | altruistic |
| I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems ________. Gwyneth Paltrow | arbitrary |
| Asymmetrical warfare is a _________ for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. Alan Dershowitz | euphemism |
| I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a ________ than he was a freedom fighter. Maureen O'Hara | mercenary |
| Cloud computing is a great __________ for centralization of computer services under one server. Evgeny Morozov | euphemism |
| In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or ________, enjoy democratic equality. Mary McCarthy | banal |
| I have a condition called Aspergers ________, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations. Gary Numan | Syndrome |
| There is a profound and ineradicable _______ of antisemitism in the British. David Mamet | taint |
| It sounds _________ and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing. Robbie Fowler | mercenary |
| I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel ________ because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication. Susan Orlen | syndrome |
| Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to _______ it. Chade-Meng Tan | taint |
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