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  1. Doing a handstand needs a lot of practice to learn.
  2. Astronomy might be complicated, but it's not rocket science.
  3. Potatoes are less space-saving, durable and cheap than pasta.
  4. Eggs, milk and flour are the main ingredients of pancakes.
  5. Chickens lay so many eggs a week, it wouldn't be possible to breed them all.
  6. Cheese is made from milk, as well as many other diary products.
  7. Agriculture was a very important achievement in human history.
  8. It required people to settle down.
  9. As long as there is water in a cooking pot, the temperature cannot rise above a hundred degrees Celsius.
  10. Proteins have many functions in the human body.
  11. The same is true for animals.
  12. Charles Darwin became famous for his evolutionary theory.
  13. He voyaged on a ship called Beagle.
  14. Java is not only an island, but also a popular programming language.
  15. Many programming languages are named after real people.
  16. Java is not the same as JavaScript.
  17. Embedded scripts from external sources can harm the users privacy.
  18. Advertisements are rarely hosted by the same web server as the actual content.
  19. Using script blockers is generally a good idea, but it requires the user to learn a bit.
  20. Nobody is born as a hero but everyone can become a hero.
  21. When you find a bug in software, please report it.
  22. Before creating a new topic, please use the search function to find similar threads.
  23. Always be constructive when you criticize others.
  24. After writing a bug report, one should regularly check if someone responded.
  25. Important information might be missing.
  26. People should spent time on improving open-source projects instead of helping market dominating companies.
  27. For example, instead of editing Google Maps, consider contributing to OpenStreetMap.
  28. For users it is important that they can trust their operating system.
  29. Opening the source code can be a measure to create trust in software.
  30. Not everyone is able to read source code.
  31. Even if you're an expert, reading all of it is often not feasible due to lack of time.
  32. The package has been flagged as outdated.
  33. In general, people have difficulties estimating risks correctly.
  34. In Europe many people are afraid of terrorism although getting killed in a car accident is much more likely.
  35. Thousands of people die every year as a consequence of air pollution.
  36. It's always nice if you can learn something new, isn't it?
  37. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
  38. Bravery is the ability to overcome fear.
  39. Fear is often the cause of violence.
  40. Communism is the opposite of capitalism.
  41. Sometimes it's not the right thing to do the right thing.
  42. Life is complicated.
  43. Nobody said it would be easy.
  44. Every purchase is a vote.
  45. Think about that.
  46. Thank you for reading this out loud.
  47. You're doing a great job so far.
  48. Yeah, I'm talking to you.
  49. The servers of the common voice project couldn't handle the heavy load.
  50. Mind the gap.
  51. Don't trust the smiling penguin.
  52. Tux is not smiling, he just looks nice all the time.
  53. Lemon trees are not yellow, it's just the fruit.
  54. Who would have thought that?
  55. Do male kangaroos have a pouch?
  56. Plastic bags turned out to be a problem for the environment.
  57. Separation of garbage makes recycling possible.
  58. Please don't be lazy.
  59. Some people like sea gulls, others don't.
  60. Television can make you dumb, but it can also be good education.
  61. Drinking too much water in a short period of time can be lethal.
  62. It is recommended to drink at least two liters of water a day.
  63. On warm days and when doing sports you should drink more.
  64. In Saudi Arabia water is more expensive than oil.
  65. Most cars have air conditioning these days.
  66. Turning the air conditioning on leads to an increased fuel consumption.
  67. Turning off gadgets that are not in use can save a lot of energy.
  68. One of the world's biggest problems is the growth of human population.
  69. Education is very important.
  70. Everyone should have the right of education.
  71. Many people are not able to use their first language correctly.
  72. Parents should look out for correct grammar and pronunciation when speaking to their children.
  73. Reading is not the same as understanding.
  74. Reading between the lines requires understanding.
  75. Many people think computers will never have feelings.
  76. At the same time, they cannot find an exact definition of what a feeling is.
  77. Creativity is not something exclusive to humans.
  78. Are children more creative than adults?
  79. When playing, children often just reenact what they experienced before.
  80. Artificial neural networks can do something very similar.
  81. An important difference is the amount of experiences, that is to say inputs.
  82. This behavior of neural networks is sometimes called dreaming.
  83. The human brain is still not fully understood.
  84. Voyager 1 has left our solar system.
  85. Some people make the same mistakes over and over again.
  86. There is no universal definition of intelligence, but everyone agrees that the ability of learning belongs to it.
  87. Scientific work is hard.
  88. The road was so steep that the biker had to shift down a few gears.
  89. It's a pity most people do not know what gearshifts are good for.
  90. Don't forget to brush your teeth in the morning.
  91. The light-year is a unit of distance, not of time.
  92. "This is a common misconception", Sheldon said.
  93. The term "just my two cents" is about opinion, not about money.
  94. Sticks and stones will break my bones but what doesn't kill me makes me strong.
  95. Chess is a simulation of war.
  96. Classification is, among other things, a discipline of machine learning.
  97. Parachuting is dangerous.
  98. There is a counter on the top left of the web page.
  99. The moon is responsible for tides on earth.
  100. The international space station is an awesome project.
  101. The global positioning system works with triangulation.
  102. In 1969 the first man set his foot onto the moon's surface.
  103. He bought some tinfoil to build a hat.
  104. I have the most beautiful voice you have ever heard.
  105. What he did was definitively illegal.
  106. She was beautiful from behind, but he couldn't see her face yet.
  107. She was accused of making wrong accusations.
  108. "Before you go, I want to hug you", she said.
  109. He could see tears in her eyes.
  110. Watch out, blues ahead!
  111. Diamonds are made under pressure.
  112. Greece is the country where democracy was invented.
  113. Watch your step!
  114. Forget it, there is no such thing.
  115. She apparently didn't listen.
  116. Pencils down, time is over.
  117. The kids loved to listen to his stories.
  118. Aren't we godlike?
  119. This horse has more than one horse power.
  120. Even an ordinary man has more than one horse power, but gets tired quickly.
  121. Being with him alone made her feel uncomfortable.
  122. There is not even the possibility of doing that.
  123. The file had a size of multiple gigabytes.
  124. His internet connection was too slow.
  125. He got jailed for no reason.
  126. The church is right next to the gas station.
  127. The same parents who recently demanded a speed limitation in front of the school, are now driving way too fast with their kids on the backseat.
  128. The weather forecast for this week didn't look good at all.
  129. She couldn't decide which dress to wear.
  130. The chair lift took them up the mountain.
  131. To calibrate the motion capturing system, please do a T-pose.
  132. The railway station was locked up by the police.
  133. No-one knows what's behind this gate.
  134. The runway seems way to short for this type of plane.
  135. When she tried to withdraw some money from her bank account, the ATM claimed her card was invalid.
  136. The men at the bar were obviously drunk.
  137. Americans love to have a barbecue.
  138. Fast-food is convenient but often unhealthy.
  139. He offered the kids some ice-cream.
  140. The cake is a lie.
  141. The restaurant was quite expensive.
  142. The library is open to everyone.
  143. He felt unsafe like during his first lesson in driving school.
  144. She learned how to play the piano in a music school.
  145. Visiting a university offers great chances for your career.
  146. James Watt didn't invent the steam engine, but he improved it significantly.
  147. After the accident, his bicycle had to be repaired.
  148. The car however was not damaged.
  149. The emergency team came quickly.
  150. The least you can do is call 911.
  151. They rented a boat and went down the river.
  152. When she called her friend for help with her computer, she repeatedly emphasized, that she hadn't done anything.
  153. He nodded and said nothing.
  154. Only a few meters away there is a bus station.
  155. Improving the public transport system would help avoid traffic jams.
  156. Taking the ferry was a wise choice.
  157. There are four different sorts of fuel at this gas station.
  158. Diesel is the cheapest one, because of lower taxes.
  159. His speech ended in standing ovations.
  160. The motorcycle made loud noise.
  161. This parking space is for customers only.
  162. Don't worry, I took a cab to get home safely.
  163. The teller didn't have enough change.
  164. Plastic surgery has become more popular.
  165. There is a dentist and some other doctors inside this clinic.
  166. When he was in hospital, the nurse took an x-ray photograph of his arm.
  167. It was easy to see on the radiogram, that his bones were broken.
  168. She went to the pharmacy to get her pills.
  169. Taking part in road traffic is potentially dangerous after donating blood.
  170. Emoticons are familiar to everyone nowadays.
  171. There is a social facility on the other side of the road.
  172. He lost a lot of money through gambling in the casino.
  173. A new movie is shown the first time in cinema.
  174. This picture is pure art.
  175. A crowd of people stood around the fountain.
  176. When she entered the dance floor, everyone in the nightclub was looking at her.
  177. Wikipedia is a non-profit organization.
  178. The clock of the town center took damage from a lightening strike.
  179. Water boarding is a terrible form of torture.
  180. The lawyer successfully defended his client.
  181. When the judge spoke the death sentence, the defendant showed no emotion.
  182. They were kissing in the backyard.
  183. Two women were still missing, when the firefighters arrived.
  184. The agent secretly entered the embassy from the roof.
  185. The ladder of the fire truck was not long enough.
  186. How could this happen?
  187. Linus is known for his clear and explicit language.
  188. Policemen are investigating in this case.
  189. Divers found a dead person in the lake.
  190. To measure the performance accurately we need a benchmark.
  191. Many soldiers of world war 2 have never been buried on a grave yard.
  192. He went to gym to strengthen his muscles.
  193. Please do not feed the ducks!
  194. I'm not hungry, I'm starving.
  195. Peer-to-peer networks are more robust than client-server architectures.
  196. She bought cucumbers at the marketplace.
  197. The European Union has often been criticized for their regulations.
  198. You will need some rubber boots.
  199. Although everything should be under the state's control, there is a lot of violence in prisons.
  200. Surveillance does not always bring security.
  201. Black people were demonstrating against police brutality.
  202. Smoking is prohibited.
  203. The mountain rescue team gave up its work.
  204. She couldn't decide whether to take a shower or to have a bath.
  205. Only one third of the rubbish is being recycled in this country.
  206. Too much food is being wasted.
  207. Firewalls can be used to protect a network against intruders.
  208. There was a round table in the middle of the room.
  209. The telephone didn't work without electricity.
  210. He went to the vending machine and bought a coffee.
  211. She couldn't find a waste basket.
  212. She could not manage to climb over the fence.
  213. One of the town's landmarks is the city-wall.
  214. Even the guard rail couldn't stop the truck from falling off the bridge.
  215. The government decided to focus on border control because of the refugees.
  216. The chain rule is applied twice to this formula.
  217. History teaches us that humans do not learn from history.
  218. This farm had cattle, chicken, sheep and many other animals.
  219. This part of the town was half residential, half industrial.
  220. The determinant is the product of all eigenvectors of a matrix.
  221. Today's world is full of commercials.
  222. The bakery was next to the slaughterhouse.
  223. He learned swimming in school.
  224. This beer has been brewed in Germany, more specifically in Bavaria.
  225. Take that fire extinguisher and put out the fire!
  226. Forty-two is not a random number.
  227. Lifeguards were standing on a tower, staring at the water.
  228. Some of them had binoculars.
  229. Oxygen is important for us, but some bacteria don't need it at all.
  230. The phone call got interrupted due to unknown reasons.
  231. He was not able to find words for his feelings.
  232. The motorway is not the fastest connection between Hamburg and Munich.
  233. Pedestrians were standing on a sidewalk paved with cobblestone.
  234. Everyone has once heard of the chicken-egg-problem.
  235. The frog had no chance to escape.
  236. Three-phase alternating current is an efficient way of transmitting energy.
  237. Bus-only lanes are debated controversially.
  238. This building has an elevator which is necessary for wheelchairs.
  239. The path through the forest was unlit and scary.
  240. It was not clear who had the right of way, since the traffic lights were off.
  241. The Chinese built a monorail train that floats on a magnetic field.
  242. Excuse me, nudism is not allowed at this part of the beach.
  243. Form follows function.
  244. Laser tag is a game quite similar to paintball.
  245. Although searching in binary search trees is efficient, you won't find any fruits in there.
  246. Salmon is one of the most popular fish and very delicious, though usually not sustainable.
  247. A group of people, one of them with a guitar, were sitting by the campfire and singing songs.
  248. Golf stands for the letter G in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
  249. Compiling the Linux kernel can be time consuming.
  250. Good playgrounds have much more to offer than swings and slides.
  251. Sunburns can be avoided by applying sunscreen or by staying in the shadows.
  252. Bitcoin mining can be done with graphic cards or with specialized hardware.
  253. Historic mills were usually powered by water, wind or horse power.
  254. Inverse kinematics are a mathematical challenge for robot engineers.
  255. Nobody knows how much ammunition the military has in its checkpoints.
  256. Salim moved from India to the Netherlands.
  257. Glaciers are melting because of global warming.
  258. The peak of this mountain is over two thousand meters above sea level.
  259. I hope some of the lines make you smile.
  260. The Tropic of Capricorn is on the Southern Hemisphere of the earth.
  261. Everyone should have health insurance.
  262. Debian is an operating system which is free as in freedom.
  263. Football is often confused with soccer.
  264. Accidents in nuclear power plants are potentially catastrophic.
  265. Cables need insulation to prevent short circuits.
  266. Portals are used in many computer games to instantly travel from one place to another.
  267. Burning fridges, televisions and washing machines are not as unusual as one might think.
  268. Inline skates are like ice skates, but with wheels instead of blades.
  269. All beverages in this shop are free of alcohol.
  270. A famous company from Sweden sells furniture in many countries of the world.
  271. When I have read a million of these sentences, I am going to apply as a professional narrator.
  272. Without questioning he said what the screen of his computer dictated to him.
  273. Asymmetric cryptography uses pairs of keys.
  274. They are called private and public key.
  275. One key is for encryption, the other one for decryption.
  276. Given only the public key, it is very hard to compute the private one.
  277. Besides encryption, it can also be used for authentication.
  278. The process of encrypting the hash value of a message is called digital signature.
  279. Hash functions are one-way functions with a number of mathematical requirements.
  280. Strong cryptography can prevent a man in the middle to read a conversation.
  281. The green lock in the address bar of your browser does NOT mean you can trust the site.
  282. The system with certificate authorities has some serious issues.
  283. In symmetric cryptography the same key is used for encryption and decryption.
  284. Symmetric algorithms tend to be faster than asymmetric ones.
  285. Strong passwords don't have to be hard to remember.
  286. The world wide web is not the same as the internet.
  287. The Google search bar is for searching, not for typing URLs!
  288. If you don't know any alternative search engines, just google them.
  289. You can create bookmarks in you web browser to make browsing more convenient.
  290. Local solutions should be preferred to cloud solutions in many cases.
  291. From a technical point of view, the MP3-standard is completely outdated and yet it's still very successful.
  292. His girlfriend always has cold feet in the morning.
  293. The omemo protocol needs to be supported by more jabber clients.
  294. Palm oil is cheap, but workers on illegal plantations get exploited and huge areas of jungle get destroyed for its production.
  295. Spending time with each other can be more valuable than any material present.
  296. It would be very useful if my web browser could synchronize all of its preferences, not just some.
  297. I promise, I will be careful!
  298. I have disabled some of the certificate authorities, but they're not grayed out in this list.
  299. Honest Ahmed did not convince the developers.
  300. There might be secret messages in this text.
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