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5824
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step over the threshold of your door into your foyer your hallway whatever's on the other side and appreciate the quality of the light
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5825
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walk past him into your living room
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5826
|
these people must be freaks of nature
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serious
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5827
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we've all trained ourselves to perform these utterly miraculous feats of memory using a set of ancient techniques techniques invented years ago in greece the same techniques that cicero had used to memorize his speeches that medieval scholars had used to memorize entire books
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5828
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this is a guy called e
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serious
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5829
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these technologies have made our modern world possible but they've also changed us
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5832
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it is entirely from all of the other memories floating around in your skull
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serious
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5833
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the entire art of what is going on in these memory contests and the entire art of remembering stuff better in everyday life is figuring out ways to transform capital b bakers into lower case b bakers to take information that is lacking in context in significance in meaning and transform it in some way so that it becomes meaningful in the light of all the other things that you have in your mind
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5839
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i said i'd be there in about two years
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humorous
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5840
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all the students sat around and they went
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humorous
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5841
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my sister said maybe i should leave you alone because you seem to be doing a lot better when not saying anything
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humorous
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5842
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and as i walked off a little bit they'd say yeah and shut up too
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humorous
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5843
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and i could see my father yeah he really is crazy
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serious
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5844
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and it was a big thing in my little community of point reyes station in inverness california because there were only about people there in the winter this was back in now
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5845
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and so on my birthday i decided because i argued so much and i talk so much that i was going to stop speaking for just one day one day to give it a rest
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serious
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5846
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and then i would launch in
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5847
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and so i decided id better do this for another day and another day and another day until finally i promised myself for a year i would keep quiet because i started learning more and more and i needed to learn more
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serious
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5850
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i was fully aware that for someone as secular as i am just asking it could be seen as pure chutzpah
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humorous
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5855
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this is a different kind of boy and a different kind of girl
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serious
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speaking style
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5856
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the prison warden looking equally indifferent said any trouble just press the red buzzer and we'll be around as soon as we can
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humorous
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5857
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i looked up at the red buzzer far behind joe on the opposite wall
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humorous
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speaking style
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5858
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perhaps detecting my concern he leaned forward and said as reassuringly as he could ah don't worry about the buzzer it doesn't work anyway
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humorous
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speaking style
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5859
|
i remember my cousin sasha two years old at the time looking through a picture book and licking one finger and flicking the page with the other hand licking one finger and flicking the page with the other hand
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humorous
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speaking style
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5860
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it looks and feels like it sounds wormwood
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serious
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speaking style
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5862
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it was as though they knew the words but not the music of empathy
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serious
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5863
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people like joe have a deficit in a brain area called the
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serious
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speaking style
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5864
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now i spent a lot of time in my garage over the next weeks and months and also in my kitchen much to the dismay of my wife
|
humorous
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speaking style
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5865
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okay
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humorous
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speaking style
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5866
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so i'm just going to put that in there
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humorous
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speaking style
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5870
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okay
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humorous
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5872
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so we just switch off us governments and aid agencies
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serious
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5873
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that really stuck with me
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serious
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5874
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so that's definitely going to get through those holes
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serious
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5875
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so someone's done that up
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serious
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5879
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of course in this day and age the trick is not to let each tree be obscured by that bush in washington that can get can get in the way
|
humorous
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speaking style
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5880
|
it's this is what i have done because i'm excited by it because it's a wonderful thing and it's done something for me and of course it's accomplished a great deal
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serious
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5881
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and of course that makes sense because hope is an abstract phenomenon it's an abstract idea it's not a concrete word
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serious
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speaking style
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5882
|
this is not a plan either this is illegal
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humorous
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speaking style
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5883
|
i'm not a geriatrician
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serious
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speaking style
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5884
|
she hasn't actually achieved anything
|
humorous
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5886
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and in fact i am sitting on this stage looking like i do in this wheelchair and you are probably kind of expecting me to inspire you
|
humorous
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5887
|
and these images there are lots of them out there they are what we call inspiration porn
|
humorous
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5889
|
i wasn't doing anything that was out of the ordinary at all
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serious
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5890
|
and in the past few years we've been able to propagate this lie even further via social media
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serious
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5891
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they are not things to do with our bodies
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serious
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speaking style
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5893
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i want to live in a world where we value genuine achievement for disabled people and i want to live in a world where a kid in year in a melbourne high school is not one bit surprised that his new teacher is a wheelchair user
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serious
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5910
|
and i'd get a terse response oh that's worse
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humorous
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5912
|
he said if the only tool you have is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail
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humorous
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5913
|
this is van quach
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serious
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5914
|
and this first hotel that i bought motel was a pay hour no tell motel in the inner city of san francisco
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serious
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5915
|
because vivian knew what it was like to be far away from home
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serious
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5930
|
from my home in california i shaved charlie in atlanta
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humorous
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5931
|
by the way check out my sweet ride
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humorous
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5932
|
i inspected the solar panels on our roof
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humorous
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speaking style
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5933
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all work and no fun makes for a dull quadriplegic so we also find time to play friendly games of robot soccer
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humorous
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5935
|
my six siblings and i were good kids but caused our fair share of trouble
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serious
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speaking style
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5936
|
i worked and studied hard to move up the career ladder eventually becoming a chief financial officer in silicon valley a job i really enjoyed
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serious
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5937
|
i can surf the web exchange email with people and destroy my friend steve cousins in online word games
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serious
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5938
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and our hope is that by providing these tools that you'll be able to think of better ways to provide movement for the disabled to provide care for our aging population to help better educate our children to think about what the new types of middle class jobs could be for the future to both monitor and protect our environment and to explore the universe
|
serious
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5939
|
it is up to us all of us to decide how robotics will be used for good or for evil for simply replacing people or for making people better for allowing us to do and enjoy more
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serious
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5954
|
and this is the poster
|
humorous
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5956
|
but i chose a different story for my life
|
humorous
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speaking style
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5957
|
so a single idea from the human mind it could start a groundswell it could be a flash point for a movement and it can actually rewrite our future
|
serious
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speaking style
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5958
|
every time we go to maui we go to the dealer there and he turns these great big posters
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serious
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5959
|
i really think they have the power to change the world when you communicate effectively through them
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serious
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5960
|
although there was a century newspaper editor who defined it rather better when he said a is a fellow who seeks office regardless of party platform or principle and who when he wins gets there by the sheer force of monumental
|
humorous
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speaking style
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5963
|
president is there on borrowed time just waiting for the senate to spring into action
|
humorous
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5967
|
and you know it could have worked
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serious
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5968
|
they got their title of respectability
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serious
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5969
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politicians try to pick and use words to shape and control reality but in fact reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality
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serious
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5970
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i know that i'm incredibly nervous and excited to be up here which is greatly inhibiting my ability to keep it cool
|
humorous
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speaking style
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5973
|
and the poem began anderson cooper is a gorgeous man
|
humorous
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5974
|
no anderson you're the god
|
humorous
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5976
|
okay there's a few that chocolate can't fix
|
serious
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5977
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because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it's sent away
|
serious
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5978
|
baby i'll tell her remember your momma is a worrier and your poppa is a warrior and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more
|
serious
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5981
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and then suing the state of texas and its governor rick perry to prevent them from executing stroman exactly like most people shot in the face do
|
humorous
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speaking style
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5982
|
people are looking for scapegoats
|
serious
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speaking style
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5983
|
then on september that tattooed man enters the mart
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serious
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speaking style
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5984
|
the is frogs at home don't pay attention to that
|
humorous
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speaking style
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5985
|
she transformed into a supernova and in the process releasing a tremendous amount of energy the rest of the galaxy and emitting in one second the same amount of energy our sun will release in days
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serious
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6000
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i started turning it over in my head and i realized wait a minute my head actually fits inside this thing
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humorous
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6005
|
all the time they wear it at dinner they wear it to bed
|
humorous
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speaking style
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6007
|
now that i've oversold it here's a picture of the armor that i made
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humorous
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speaking style
|
6008
|
i didn't have an easy time finding friends to play with and i ended up making a lot of my own play
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serious
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6010
|
and it's so beautiful to watch
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serious
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6012
|
ah ah ah like that
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serious
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6013
|
somebody grabs my hand and they put a coin back into it
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serious
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6015
|
and we're making it our own
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serious
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6017
|
our backs are arched our knees are bent our toes are curled our elbows are and our fingers are curved backwards
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serious
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6018
|
and some even accused me of feigning the whole thing to push and i quote my feminist agenda of man hating
|
humorous
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6020
|
i got back to my local station and i began the walk home
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serious
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6025
|
i'm brilliant at this
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humorous
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6028
|
he's not laughing yet
|
humorous
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6030
|
we're not canadian
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humorous
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6031
|
in other words when it comes to laughter you and me baby ain't nothing but mammals
|
humorous
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speaking style
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6032
|
so here we've got some laughter for you
|
serious
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6033
|
i have no idea
|
serious
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6035
|
that's the same for humans
|
serious
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6036
|
and when we laugh with people we're hardly ever actually laughing at jokes
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