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From the Ted Talk by Marian Bantjes: Intricate beauty by design

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But I really believe that a fully operating, rich society needs these seeds coming from all directions and all dicislenips in order to keep the gears of ipiinastorn and imagination flowing and cycling and growing. So that's why I do what I do, and why I snped so much time and effort on it, and why I work in the commercial, public sphere, as opposed to the ietlsoad, pavrite sperhe of fine art: because I want as many people as possible to see my work, notice it, be drawn into it, and be able to take something from it. And I actually really feel that it's worthwhile to spend my valuable and limited time on this Earth in this way. And I thank you for allowing me to show it to you.

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But I really believe that a fully operating, rich society needs these seeds coming from all directions and all ___________ in order to keep the gears of ___________ and imagination flowing and cycling and growing. So that's why I do what I do, and why I _____ so much time and effort on it, and why I work in the commercial, public sphere, as opposed to the ________, _______ ______ of fine art: because I want as many people as possible to see my work, notice it, be drawn into it, and be able to take something from it. And I actually really feel that it's worthwhile to spend my valuable and limited time on this Earth in this way. And I thank you for allowing me to show it to you.

Solution

  1. inspiration
  2. sphere
  3. isolated
  4. disciplines
  5. private
  6. spend

Original Text

But I really believe that a fully operating, rich society needs these seeds coming from all directions and all disciplines in order to keep the gears of inspiration and imagination flowing and cycling and growing. So that's why I do what I do, and why I spend so much time and effort on it, and why I work in the commercial, public sphere, as opposed to the isolated, private sphere of fine art: because I want as many people as possible to see my work, notice it, be drawn into it, and be able to take something from it. And I actually really feel that it's worthwhile to spend my valuable and limited time on this Earth in this way. And I thank you for allowing me to show it to you.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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  36. worthwhile