ambition, contentment, regret

dangerous insects, mosquito, allusion

fat lady, singing, beginnings

Noam Chomsky, grammar, linguistics

decisions, fad

poetry, Blossom Dearie, moonlight, romance

self-reference, ambivalent, uncertainty

incongruity, jackhammer, labor unions, aging

simplicity, invention, paperclip

UFO, unidentifiable

aging, exercise, health, happiness

marriage, disagreement, spat, normal

creative, intuitive, impulse, perception, qualitative, quantitative

waiting, Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett, Disneyland, DMV

monkey, typewriter, time, finite, entropy

algebra, equality, inequality

time, moment, history, memories

quotation, Arthur C. Clarke, technology, magic

anger, fun

regrets, aging, choices, speaking, behaving

CRT, television, critical theory

musical elements and materials, educated listeners

coffee tongue, hot, danger, irritating

song lyric, movies, temporal, spatial, metaphor

food, dessert, ice cream, fruit, microwave

dental hygiene, history, caveman

food, fried egg, yolk, white

brutal kindness, aggression

discrete universe, molecules, atoms, quarks, structure

sleep, anxiety, self-reference

rabbit, allusion, wise crack

hatred, anger, fear, bitterness, despair, gratitude

tyranny, love, trust, captivity

movies, Hans Landa, Inglorious Basterds, rumors

metaphor, moon, crater, scars, vulnerability

nature, necessities, technology, bio-technology, Adam and Eve

wire, invention, creativity

poetic meaning, ambiguity, mathematical formula

screwdriver, probability, quantum forces

organized, human condition, anxiety, temperament

psychology, self-actualized, social approval, mental health

biology, instinct, infancy, vulnerability, dominant species

music, minor key, emotion, story, tragedy, sweets, salt

planning, future, present, regret, inconsistency

psychology, weight training, resistance, fear, courage

aphorisms, truth, exceptions

reality, perception, solipsism

mystery, science, enrichment, forbidden knowledge

peaceful people, passivity, naive, trust, cowardice, tyranny

ultimate truths, history

whining, winners, losers

ambition, pride, humility

Rosa Parks, civil rights activist

quotation, Thomas Sowell, economics, politics

movies, Skyfall, Raoul Silva, life, disease

postmodernists, reality, truth, knowledge, contradiction

blood, metaphor, literature, Moby Dick, whale, Herman Melville

quotation, Jack Wheeler, capitalism, symphony, economic value

pets, dogs, companionship, love, loss, grieving

self-reference, allusion, dyslexic, Karl Marx, neurology

quotation, parody, Presidents

quotation, movies, differences, offended, boredom, narcissism

cartoon, Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, voters, progressive, immaturity, perpetual adolescence

math, algebra, expression, morality

economics, deficit spending, politicians, optimism, culture

confidence, will, commitment, values, expectation, emotion

invention, creativity, language rules

psychology, self-acceptance, Kermit

history, morality, individualism

allusion, Karl Marx, communism, capitalism, meritocracy

psychology, humor, allusion

nature, chemistry, counter-intuitive

literature, poetry, romantic love, Shakespeare, sonnet, mockery

language, communication, verbal tic, habit

quotation, H.L. Mencken, happiness, love, metaphor

self-reference, spoonerism, language

mythology, monster, cultural meme

technology, distance learning

memory, love, mortality

goals, planning, maturity

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, responsibility, moral society, children

entanglement, quantum physics, morality, philosophy

food, calories, flavor, health

quotation, Winston Churchill, capitalism, socialism, WWII

imagination, inference, story, beach, mystery

vitality, fear, thrill ride, romantic love, boredom, death

self-reference, certainty

generating ideas, thinking, associations, relationships, cognition

literary techniques, James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake

day dreams, night dreams, politics

viewpoints, anthropomorphizing, money, denominations

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food, psychology

philosophy, Leibniz, mind, body, dualism

politicians, distrust, government

text complexity, young adult novel, close reading, language

time, imagination, future, past, present

quotation, Ishmael Beah, lost childhood, violence, war, youth, A Long Way Gone

language voice, Huck Finn, Mark Twain, Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, youth, adolescence

animals, dog, cute, loving, companionship, heaven