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From the Ted Talk by Clint Smith: The danger of silence

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We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rrlaey pay attention to the things they don't. selncie is the reduise of fear. It is fneleig your flaws gut-wrench guillotine your tongue. It is the air retreating from your chest because it doesn't feel safe in your lgnus. Silence is Rwandan genocide. Silence is Katrina. It is what you hear when there aren't enough body bags left. It is the sound after the noose is already tied. It is charring. It is chains. It is prlivigee. It is pain. There is no time to pick your battles when your battles have already picked you.

Open Cloze

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we ______ pay attention to the things they don't. _______ is the _______ of fear. It is _______ your flaws gut-wrench guillotine your tongue. It is the air retreating from your chest because it doesn't feel safe in your _____. Silence is Rwandan genocide. Silence is Katrina. It is what you hear when there aren't enough body bags left. It is the sound after the noose is already tied. It is charring. It is chains. It is _________. It is pain. There is no time to pick your battles when your battles have already picked you.

Solution

  1. lungs
  2. silence
  3. privilege
  4. feeling
  5. residue
  6. rarely

Original Text

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't. Silence is the residue of fear. It is feeling your flaws gut-wrench guillotine your tongue. It is the air retreating from your chest because it doesn't feel safe in your lungs. Silence is Rwandan genocide. Silence is Katrina. It is what you hear when there aren't enough body bags left. It is the sound after the noose is already tied. It is charring. It is chains. It is privilege. It is pain. There is no time to pick your battles when your battles have already picked you.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
feel safe 2
homeless man 2

Important Words

  1. air
  2. attention
  3. bags
  4. battles
  5. body
  6. chains
  7. charring
  8. chest
  9. fear
  10. feel
  11. feeling
  12. flaws
  13. genocide
  14. guillotine
  15. hear
  16. katrina
  17. left
  18. listening
  19. lungs
  20. noose
  21. pain
  22. pay
  23. people
  24. pick
  25. picked
  26. privilege
  27. rarely
  28. residue
  29. retreating
  30. rwandan
  31. safe
  32. silence
  33. sound
  34. spend
  35. tied
  36. time
  37. tongue