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From the Ted Talk by Andy Hobsbawm: Do the green thing

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Great criitveaty. In times of need, we need great creativity. dsusics. Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful. Great creativity can spread tolerance, champion freedom, make education seem like a bright idea. (Laughter)

Great creativity can turn a spotlight on deprivation, or show that deprivation ain't necessarily so. garet creativity can make politicians electable, or prieats unelectable. It can make war seem like tragedy or farce.

Creativity is the meme-maker that puts slogans on our t-shirts and phrases on our lips. It's the pathfinder that shows us a smpile road through an impenetrable moral maze. sieccne is cveelr, but great creativity is something less knowable, more magical. And now we need that magic. This is a time of need.

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Great __________. In times of need, we need great creativity. _______. Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful. Great creativity can spread tolerance, champion freedom, make education seem like a bright idea. (Laughter)

Great creativity can turn a spotlight on deprivation, or show that deprivation ain't necessarily so. _____ creativity can make politicians electable, or _______ unelectable. It can make war seem like tragedy or farce.

Creativity is the meme-maker that puts slogans on our t-shirts and phrases on our lips. It's the pathfinder that shows us a ______ road through an impenetrable moral maze. _______ is ______, but great creativity is something less knowable, more magical. And now we need that magic. This is a time of need.

Solution


  1. science
  2. clever
  3. creativity
  4. discuss
  5. simple
  6. parties
  7. great

Original Text


Great creativity. In times of need, we need great creativity. Discuss. Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful. Great creativity can spread tolerance, champion freedom, make education seem like a bright idea. (Laughter)

Great creativity can turn a spotlight on deprivation, or show that deprivation ain't necessarily so. Great creativity can make politicians electable, or parties unelectable. It can make war seem like tragedy or farce.

Creativity is the meme-maker that puts slogans on our t-shirts and phrases on our lips. It's the pathfinder that shows us a simple road through an impenetrable moral maze. Science is clever, but great creativity is something less knowable, more magical. And now we need that magic. This is a time of need.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
great creativity 9


Important Words


  1. absurdly
  2. astonishingly
  3. bright
  4. champion
  5. clever
  6. creativity
  7. deprivation
  8. discuss
  9. education
  10. electable
  11. farce
  12. freedom
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  15. impenetrable
  16. irrationally
  17. knowable
  18. laughter
  19. lips
  20. magic
  21. magical
  22. maze
  23. moral
  24. necessarily
  25. parties
  26. pathfinder
  27. phrases
  28. politicians
  29. powerful
  30. puts
  31. rationally
  32. road
  33. science
  34. show
  35. shows
  36. simple
  37. slogans
  38. spotlight
  39. spread
  40. time
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  42. tolerance
  43. tragedy
  44. turn
  45. unelectable
  46. war