Instead, a great poem is one that resonates with us, that challenges us and that teaches us something about ourselves and the world that we live in.
So this notion that there is something that none of us know about that is so important and so great that it justifies all the fiascoes and failures, and crimes, I take with a grain of salt.
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Mr. MILLER: I'm no neuroscientist, but I think that as time goes on, you know, something that people tell us about that music is that you know, when I hear those songs, I can see what I saw and hear what I heard and feel what I felt when I first heard them.
"There's something about The Monkees and what that told us about pop culture and how music and TV and, eventually, film can work together, " Gallo said.
But that's the nature of compromise -- sacrificing something that each of us cares about to move forward on what matters to all of us.
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But what if we decided we wanted to send a message with intent, something that will say more about us than an episode of The Love Boat?
Not only is it sound economic policy, in assessing the American experience, there is something about manufacturing that helps define us as a nation and as a people.
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When they devote their time to representing the indigent, the elderly, battered women or refugees, we do not hesitate to say that those choices tell us something about their values.
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This little change that Twitter has made to the way that it censors tweets tells us something really quite important about the way that international and national law affects what we do here on the internet.
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Something that's surprised us about many slate devices is how heavy they turn out to be.
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Finally, the political point: that something needs to be done about the US health care system I take to be true.
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As a relatively small number of stocks climb, the reporters and analysts tend to fixate on them to the exclusion of other, less dramatic occurrences that could be telling us something important about a coming crash.
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"Since day one, our first vision for this company, why we fell in love with it, was this idea of 'waste to food' and 'waste to wages, ' that you could create a really cool company in an urban setting, create really good jobs out of what was waste, and something about that was so powerful to us, " Arora said.
Surely there was something locally interesting going on that people were talking about all over the Web -- something culturally relevant and noteworthy that could give us a deeper glimpse into the psyche and spirit of New York.
Most of us assume that we know something about music and how it is made.
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"He wanted to tell us that there's something about him that we didn't know, " Portman said, reflecting on the day two years ago his son Will first told his parents he was gay.
The fact that oil companies now have to go a mile underwater and then drill another three miles below that in order to hit oil tells us something about the direction of the oil industry.
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There was something wonderful about the seven of us that captured the hearts and souls of young America.
This was something that our scientists and others had told us about.
Unravelling all that, says Don Church, might tell us something about the origins and spread of chytrid - and there is so much diversity among Japanese chytrid strains that the country is now being touted as a possible origin, as diversity often implies a long evolutionary timeframe.
Rather, I think the most important point is where these cases were held and what that tells us about how we need to reform something rather important.
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If Newt Gingrich can get married three times and then get to decide who is or who is not destroying the sanctity of marriage, well that says something about letting our political leaders make these decisions for us.
But the way we approach and the way we talk about those differences I think is something that all of us -- the President, leaders of both parties, members of both parties -- have to work hard to strive to make progress on.
And the United States I think has something to say about that, because part of what makes us a superpower is because we have people of every walk of life, every background, every religion, and if they've got a good idea and they're willing to work hard, they can succeed.
That Dead White European Males still have something useful to tell us about the modern world?
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That then brings us to Mongolia, something we are very excited about.
Every once in a while, something happens in sports that reminds us all why we care about games even in times when it would seem games really don't matter very much.
Let us assume that global inequality is something that you worry about.
Very few have six figures saved in our 401(k)s, something that is unlikely to change any time soon since about half of us are living paycheck to paycheck, unable to save for an emergency that could happen tomorrow, never mind an event twenty years off.
When they work, however, it's what cinema is all about -- a great communal experience that binds us into something greater than ourselves.
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