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Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

~Drew Curtis

Topics: About Anymore Believe Convinced Either Failed Getting Information Intelligent Intelligent People Media Most News News Media Not Talking People Talked Talking Them Valuable Who

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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

~E. F. Benson

Topics: Always Any Apply Been Days Directly Earlier Ever Failed Grey Had Intelligence Language Learning Make Me Never Possessed Received Regards Sky Sunshine Teaching Vividly

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Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.

~Earl Blumenauer

Topics: Attack Citizens Economics Failed Gay Lesbian Marriages Our See Social Strain Terms Today

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When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Authorship Could Custom Everything Failed Fit Ghost Hand Heavy Hold Irish Language Life Mean Meant Mine My Life Night Poetry Seemed Sometimes Struggled Tried Where Word Write Young I Tried

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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: After Began Century Cultural Desires Each Failed Famine Forties Half Identity Independence Ireland Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Other Political Riffs Second Self-Determination Series Shape Sixties Time

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Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever.

~Ed Kowalczyk

Topics: Because Critics Earnest Face Failed Fit Flies Just Lyrics Our People Rather Style Success Times Too Upfront Were Whatever Who Would

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Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.

~Ed Royce

Topics: Afghanistan Al Because Cut Difficult Difficult Time Endeavor Failed Flow Funds Having Internationally Off Partly Pushing Run States Time United United States Working Qaeda

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Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

~Edward Bach

Topics: Eradicated Failed Grasp Learnt Lesson Means Never Other Out Point Suffering Until Which

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I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

~Edward Burtynsky

Topics: Aspects Being Concerned Environmental Environmental Movement Environmentally Failed Movement Much Out Positive Pull Sold Stick Think Tone Too Too Much Trying Us Used I Think

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Throughout his work, Philip Levine's most powerful commitment has been to the failed and lost, the marginal, the unloved, the unwanted.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Been Commitment Failed His Lost Marginal Most Most Powerful Philip Powerful Throughout Unloved Unwanted Work

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