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• Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

  Robert Jordan

  Jobs, Men, Be A Man

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• Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

  Peter Mayle

  Best Advice

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• I had to persuade a dog to swallow a pill. I twittered for advice and I got suggestion after suggestion. Most of them didn't work. 'Put the pill in the sausage.' No - that doesn't work. 'Cheese.' No. Then someone said: 'You wrap it in butter and it will slide down.' I tried it and it worked! And I'd learnt how to give a pill to a dog through the magic of Twitter.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dog, Giving, Magic

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• The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog. 2. The terrible twos last through age three. 3. Never ask your child an open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Dog, Children

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.

  Vincent Price

  Spiritual, Crazy, Inspiration

  Vincent Price (2016). “The Book of Joe: About a Dog and His Man”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

  Martin Amis

  Real, Stuff, Way

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Jun 24, 2013

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• Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Like Yourself, Knows

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fate, Sky, Purple

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love,and with love,there are no rules some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior,others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on relationships but this is all folly.The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Prayer, Book

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• All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Effectiveness, World

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.

  Simone Elkeles

  Flirting, Female, Pieces

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “How to Ruin a Summer Vacation”, p.70, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Thinking, Imagine

  Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

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• Here's some advice. Stay alive.

  Suzanne Collins

  Alive, Hunger Games Book, Effie Trinket

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.51, Scholastic Inc.

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• Um, Faythe?” Marc reached for my arm, and a small grin turned up one corner of his beautiful mouth. “As my first official piece of advice to the new Alpha, let me suggest that you put on some pants. And maybe a shirt.” His grin grew and pulled me closer to whisper in my ear, while Jace watched us stiffly from across the room. “While the look definitely works for me, I’m thinking the other Alphas might take you more seriously if you dress the part.

  Rachel Vincent

  Beautiful, Thinking, Pieces

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• It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" --she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should--"in a smelly old cave like this!

  Douglas Adams

  Taken, Opposites, Decision

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• You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose.

  Douglas Adams

  Sound, Usual, News

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.677, Pan Macmillan

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• He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Book, Reading, Order

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• Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Struggle, Responsibility

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• Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer

  Linda Lael Miller

  Running, Choices, World

  Linda Lael Miller (2014). “The Rustler”, p.274, Harlequin

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• Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

  Claude Debussy

  Wind, Tree, Mankind

  "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.

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• Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Children, Drama, Believe

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• You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon and not as pensive of mind as Kenzie. They rely on each other too much. Saxon knows he can afford to be reckless since Kenzie acts as his conscience. And Kenzie can linger in his thoughts and plans, because he knows Saxon can defend him. I tested Kenzie earlier. I wanted to see if he would be swayed by my advice. It took Saxon's coaxing to make up the greyfur's mind. Be compleete with in yourself young redfur...you will never disappoint. Even in solitude.

  David Petersen

  Solitude, Mind, Would Be

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• You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Dark, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Fire, Hands

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.584, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

  Stendhal

  Mad, Pay, Heed

  Stendhal (2006). “Red and the Black Volume Ii EasyRead Com”, p.298, ReadHowYouWant.com

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