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• The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select.

  Terry Pratchett

  Taken, Son, Novices

  "Lords And Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

  Paul Rand

  Jobs, Ideas, Interesting

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• Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

  Dan Quayle

  Party, Bills, Republican

  "Sex Ed For Hill Interns" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 1998.

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• My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Thinking, Ideas, Together

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.74

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• Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, War, Community Living

  Allen Ginsberg (2007). “Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

  Cyril Connolly

  Happiness, Passion, Justice

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• If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

  Franz Boas

  Intelligent, Equality, Emotional

  Franz Boas (2014). “Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)”, p.75, Routledge

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• Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

  Jeffrey Archer

  People, March, Hours

  Jeffrey Archer (2011). “Only Time Will Tell”, p.258, Pan Macmillan

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• Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Fiction, Broads

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• The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Dream, Book, Dark

  Algernon Blackwood (2015). “The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories – Ultimate Horror Classics Collection: From one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories, known for The Willows, The Wendigo, Jimbo, The Human Chord, The Education of Uncle Paul, John Silence, The Listener and Other Stories…”, p.43, e-artnow

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• Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

  Zhuge Liang

  Leadership, Art, War

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• Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Anger, Suicidal

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• Every reader of the Conversations with the God is invited to self-select, that is, to choose themselves, to be among those who commit to moving forward their own individual and personal evolution by embracing and demonstrating behaviors that serve to awaken the species to who and what human beings really are Individuations of Divinity, and how that may be made manifest in our experience.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Self, Being Real

  Source: www.spiritualmediablog.com

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• Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.

  Jean Houston

  Warrior, Thinking, Long

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• People are infinitely more interesting than characters that I come up with. Because the characters I come up with are basically combinations of people I've met. Combinations. You select certain details, that's all.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Character, People, Interesting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you make a film and it wins some award at a very select, very difficult festival such as Cannes, it's good for your fellow film directors and fellow citizens too. Because it shows them that this way is a real possibility.

  Rithy Panh

  Real, Winning, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• In the interest of not pissing you off anymore tonight, let's not select that particular playlist.

  Kiersten White

  Tonight, Interest, Playlists

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• We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it's not the children who change but their environments. As adults they get to select the careers, spouses, and social circles that suit them. They don't have to live in whatever culture they'er plunked into.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Kids, Circles

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.253, Broadway Books

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• I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Mean, Minorities

  Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, Jorge Luis Borges, Anglo-Argentine Society (1988). “In memory of Borges”, Not Avail

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• Did he happen to select a color too?" "Blue." "Blue?" Victoria burst out, prepared to do physical battle for white. Madame nodded, her finger thoughtfully pressed to her lips, her own hand plunked upon her waist. "Yes, blue. Ice blue. He said you are glorious in that color-'a titian-haired angel,' he said" Victoria abruptly decided ice blue was a lovely color to be married in.

  Judith McNaught

  Angel, Blue, Hands

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• Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Dog, Adults, Population

  "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Fook Kwang Han, Sumiko Tan, and Warren Fernandez, 1998.

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• I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thinking, Bullshit

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Self, Talking

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.442

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• [We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

  Donald Trump

  Self, Needs, Ability

  Source: time.com

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• Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

  Epictetus

  Life, Play, Actors

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