- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cluster Quotes
When things gather, or fall apart, together.
"Cluster" does a lot of work across these quotes — a sociologist noticing whole friend groups divorcing around the same time, an astronomer explaining why galaxies cluster instead of scaling up cleanly, and a reference to Delaware's financial-services cluster.
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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark.
- Pause
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- Nov 07, 2020
Research indicates that a pause tends to be a signal that a cluster of deceptive cues is on its way. This is a key reason why voters routinely associate Trump with authenticity: He rarely pauses.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take a galaxy and try to make it bigger, it becomes a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If you try to make it smaller than that, it seems to blow itself apart.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like to have cereal in the morning, but it'll be those cluster things - it's a bit random - and through the day, I like just pasta, plain pasta with a bit of sauce on it, never too much in case I get a bad belly... and jelly just before I go on for a bit of energy!
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
- Radio
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1957, I was studying the Pleiades star cluster at Harvard University's radio observatory. On one occasion, we saw an added feature in the data. It turned out to be an amateur radio enthusiast near the observatory, but at the time, I thought we had detected clear evidence of another civilisation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the thousands of ways that humans differ from one another, turns out there's this one cluster of traits called conscientiousness that predict a whole host of positive life outcomes, such as longevity over our health, life satisfaction.
- Galaxy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a large cluster of stars that are orbiting the center of our galaxy. And by measuring the motion of stars, and in particular, their orbits, we can figure out whether or not there's a central black hole.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020