- Capable
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.
- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is comparable to observing a match flame at the distance of Pluto. The WISE satellite, a hi-tech, space-based infrared telescope especially suited for such work, has found only a few.
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail, every sign or piece of graffiti, then yes, I think that would be comparable to the time and effort required to write a very long novel, indeed.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, it's such a personal issue, I really don't think my feud with Edge will ever end. It's almost comparable to the Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels thing. There is just such legit hatred between the two guys.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on.
- Contrast
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- Nov 07, 2020
In contrast to the troposphere, the stratosphere is extremely dry and practically cloudless - the concentration of water vapor is measured in parts per million and is, in fact, comparable to that of ozone.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reality, handing over public space to private developers does not guarantee that new library spaces will be comparable in size or otherwise remain fully-functional.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mrs Thatcher not only made history by becoming Britain’s first female prime minister, she was the first woman to hold any comparable position in the western world.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in the United States we have a different standard for what equality means for women that isn't really that comparable to that in the Middle East.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.
- Disrupted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very conscious that, having worked part time, having had a rather disrupted career, my research record is a good deal patchier than any man's of a comparable age.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.
- Half Century
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I want veterans to know is that VA is here to care for them. VA is a good system - health care wise, safety wise - highly comparable to any other system out there. Our oversight reviews tell us that. I'm very comfortable in the quality of our system.
- First Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get great respect from the United fans and the directors and the people who are there still when you go there. It is a very warm club, very comparable to Ajax, only they have grown internationally amazingly.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never seen anything like it in my life. Someone so blatantly challenging the ideas of race and gender and sexuality. In a way, it was comparable to David Bowie, except that Prince brought that to the black community.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though sporting a hideous mustache is in no way comparable to the physical pain and mental suffering men with these diseases endure, Movember still forces participants to challenge their manhood on a daily basis. Growing a moustache for men's cancer isn't as feel-good an activity as running a marathon for a cure.
- Certitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for 'special entities' such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
- Black Hole
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- Nov 07, 2020
Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that's comparable to the size of our solar system.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
- Demonstrating
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- Nov 07, 2020