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From the Ted Talk by Bernie Dunlap: The life-long learner
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And I realized, in this moment of rtoiaeevln, that what these two men were revealing was the secret of their extraordinary success, each in his own right. And it lay precisely in that insatiable curiosity, that irrepressible desire to know, no matter what the subject, no matter what the cost, even at a time when the kpeeres of the Doomsday Clock are willing to bet even money that the human race won't be around to imagine anything in the year 2100, a scnat 93 years from now. "Live each day as if it is your last," said mahtama gnahdi. "Learn as if you'll live forever." This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this. It is this inextinguishable, undaunted appetite for learning and experience, no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric, no matter how seditious it might seem. This defines the imagined futures of our fellow hngiurnaas — Robicsek, tszeler and Bartok — as it does my own. As it does, I speucst, that of everybody here.
Open Cloze
And I realized, in this moment of __________, that what these two men were revealing was the secret of their extraordinary success, each in his own right. And it lay precisely in that insatiable curiosity, that irrepressible desire to know, no matter what the subject, no matter what the cost, even at a time when the _______ of the Doomsday Clock are willing to bet even money that the human race won't be around to imagine anything in the year 2100, a _____ 93 years from now. "Live each day as if it is your last," said _______ ______. "Learn as if you'll live forever." This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this. It is this inextinguishable, undaunted appetite for learning and experience, no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric, no matter how seditious it might seem. This defines the imagined futures of our fellow __________ — Robicsek, _______ and Bartok — as it does my own. As it does, I _______, that of everybody here.
Solution
- teszler
- keepers
- scant
- suspect
- gandhi
- revelation
- mahatma
- hungarians
Original Text
And I realized, in this moment of revelation, that what these two men were revealing was the secret of their extraordinary success, each in his own right. And it lay precisely in that insatiable curiosity, that irrepressible desire to know, no matter what the subject, no matter what the cost, even at a time when the keepers of the Doomsday Clock are willing to bet even money that the human race won't be around to imagine anything in the year 2100, a scant 93 years from now. "Live each day as if it is your last," said Mahatma Gandhi. "Learn as if you'll live forever." This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this. It is this inextinguishable, undaunted appetite for learning and experience, no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric, no matter how seditious it might seem. This defines the imagined futures of our fellow Hungarians — Robicsek, Teszler and Bartok — as it does my own. As it does, I suspect, that of everybody here.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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| collocation |
frequency |
| wofford college |
4 |
| mayan ceramics |
4 |
| south carolina |
3 |
| textile industry |
3 |
| upstate south |
2 |
| sandor teszler |
2 |
| night watchman |
2 |
| death house |
2 |
| brutal beating |
2 |
| kings mountain |
2 |
| white mayor |
2 |
| harry potter |
2 |
| es nem |
2 |
Important Words
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- keepers
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- learning
- live
- mahatma
- matter
- men
- moment
- money
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- precisely
- race
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- risible
- robicsek
- scant
- secret
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- subject
- success
- suspect
- teszler
- time
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- year
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