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• Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys..."

  Neil Gaiman

  Yellow, Guy, Soul

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, May 1, 1990.

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• People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie." "Ominous." I nod my agreement. "It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Sight, Eerie, People

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• We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Mother, Hurt, Children

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• Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Missing, Dear

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• Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Vacation, People

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• Our kiss was niticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad, but it was just a note of punctuation in our long conversation, a parenthetical remark made in order to assure each other of a deeply felt agreement, a mutual offer of companionship, which is so much more rare than sexual passion or even love.

  Nicole Krauss

  Passion, Kissing, Order

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• Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Belief, Opinion

  "The Four Agreements". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That's Capitalism!

  Matt Groening

  Get Away, Capitalism

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• Say only what you mean.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Integrity, Mean, Spiritual Truth

  "The Four Agreements". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.

  Frida Kahlo

  Pain, Crazy, Flower

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• Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid.

  Robert Jordan

  Memories, Arrows, Made

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.410, Macmillan

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• Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David’s answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement.

  Kim Harrison

  Years, Iron, House

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• If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Turtles, Maids

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• It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Lying, Our World, Balance

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.748, Thomas Wolfe

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• The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

  George Orwell

  Past, Evil, Enemy

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

  M. John Harrison

  Identity, Prison

  M. John Harrison (2007). “Viriconium”, p.448, Spectra

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• Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Men, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Trying, Impossible

  "De Re Publica" by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Clinton W. Keyes, Book III, Section (22), 1928.

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• Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Tactics, Mass, Chosen

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• Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

  Stephen King

  Children, Adults, Common

  Stephen King (2002). “The Shining”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.

  Dave Barry

  Native American, Men, Mutual Benefit

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.12, Ballantine Books

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• Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a kind of dream but at the same time, without knowing it, are drawing up, like uncompromising lawyers, the detailed clauses of their contract. O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

  Milan Kundera

  Dream, Betrayal, Drawing

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• In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Couple, Husband, Order

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.1807, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Agreements. Specifically, a treaty ratified by all the orders of whimsical like forms who dwell here that affords a measure of security for mortal caretakers. In a world where mortal man has become the dominant force, most creatures of enchantment have fled to refuges like this one.

  Brandon Mull

  Men, Order, World

  Brandon Mull (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.

  C. S. Forester

  Loyalty, Captains, Suggestions

  "A Ship of the Line". Book by C. S. Forester, 1938.

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