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From the Ted Talk by Robert Wright: Progress is not a zero-sum game

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It's especially hard to do when people hate you, OK, because you don't really, in a sense, want to completely usnedarntd why people hate you. I mean, you want to hear the reason, but you don't want to be able to reltae to it. You don't want it to make sense, right? (Laughter) You don't want to say, "Well, yeah, I can kind of understand how a haumn being in those circumstances would hate the ctunroy I live in." That's not a pleasant thing, but I think it's something that we're going to have to get used to and

work on. Now, I want to stress that to understand, you know — there are people who don't like this whole business of udesnarndting the grassroots, the root causes of things; they don't want to know why pelope hate us. I want to understand it. The reason you're trying to understand why they hate us, is to get them to quit hating us. The idea when you go through this moral exercise of really cmoing to appreciate their humanity and better understand them, is part of an effort to get them to appreciate your humanity in the long run. I think it's the first step toward that. That's the long-term goal.

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It's especially hard to do when people hate you, OK, because you don't really, in a sense, want to completely __________ why people hate you. I mean, you want to hear the reason, but you don't want to be able to ______ to it. You don't want it to make sense, right? (Laughter) You don't want to say, "Well, yeah, I can kind of understand how a _____ being in those circumstances would hate the _______ I live in." That's not a pleasant thing, but I think it's something that we're going to have to get used to and

work on. Now, I want to stress that to understand, you know — there are people who don't like this whole business of _____________ the grassroots, the root causes of things; they don't want to know why ______ hate us. I want to understand it. The reason you're trying to understand why they hate us, is to get them to quit hating us. The idea when you go through this moral exercise of really ______ to appreciate their humanity and better understand them, is part of an effort to get them to appreciate your humanity in the long run. I think it's the first step toward that. That's the long-term goal.

Solution


  1. human
  2. people
  3. understand
  4. coming
  5. relate
  6. understanding
  7. country

Original Text


It's especially hard to do when people hate you, OK, because you don't really, in a sense, want to completely understand why people hate you. I mean, you want to hear the reason, but you don't want to be able to relate to it. You don't want it to make sense, right? (Laughter) You don't want to say, "Well, yeah, I can kind of understand how a human being in those circumstances would hate the country I live in." That's not a pleasant thing, but I think it's something that we're going to have to get used to and

work on. Now, I want to stress that to understand, you know — there are people who don't like this whole business of understanding the grassroots, the root causes of things; they don't want to know why people hate us. I want to understand it. The reason you're trying to understand why they hate us, is to get them to quit hating us. The idea when you go through this moral exercise of really coming to appreciate their humanity and better understand them, is part of an effort to get them to appreciate your humanity in the long run. I think it's the first step toward that. That's the long-term goal.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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moral progress 4
business class 3
muslim world 3
people hate 3
upbeat talk 2
grim inspiration 2
biological evolution 2
cultural evolution 2
technological evolution 2
unfolding apocalypse 2
global social 2
intrinsically upbeat 2
moral revolution 2
death spiral 2
morally redeeming 2
good news 2
ann coulter 2
higher moral 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
global social organization 2

Important Words


  1. business
  2. circumstances
  3. coming
  4. completely
  5. country
  6. effort
  7. exercise
  8. goal
  9. grassroots
  10. hard
  11. hate
  12. hating
  13. hear
  14. human
  15. humanity
  16. idea
  17. kind
  18. laughter
  19. live
  20. long
  21. moral
  22. part
  23. people
  24. pleasant
  25. quit
  26. reason
  27. relate
  28. root
  29. run
  30. sense
  31. step
  32. stress
  33. understand
  34. understanding
  35. work
  36. yeah