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• The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving to the state governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government, as must secure the authority of the former.

  James Madison

  Government, Agency, Giving

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• We all have appointments with the past.

  W. G. Sebald

  Military, Past

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• I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it. To make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Cancer, Giving, Example

  "Giuliana Rancic a 'wreck' before breast cancer reveal" by, www.today.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Winter, Eight

  'Walden' (1854) 'Winter Visitors'

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• Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A doorman lets the guests in, but he doesn't follow them up to their rooms. He lets them out, but he doesn't walk into the street with them to their next appointment. He greets them all, then lets them go on about their business. Meditation is, in its initial stages, simply accustoming oneself to letting thoughts come and go without grasping at their sleeves or putting up a velvet rope to keep them out.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Letting Go, Meditation, Mind

  Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Chocolate is cheaper than therapy, and you don't need an appointment.

  Jill Shalvis

  Yummy, Chocolate, Needs

  Jill Shalvis (2015). “Lucky Harbor Collection 2: Lucky In Love, At Last, Forever And A Day”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money.

  Michael Moore

  Doctors, Doe, Pay

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• I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names. I’ve always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: Gus or Augustus? Me, I was always just Hazel, univalent Hazel.

  John Green

  Names, Two, Voice

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.26, Penguin

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• Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

  Elizabeth Enright

  Father, House, Picnics

  Elizabeth Enright (2015). “The Four-Story Mistake”, p.180, Macmillan

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• The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

  Marisha Pessl

  Home, Views, World

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.280, Penguin

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• Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?

  Cecelia Ahern

  Life, Running, Coffee

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• Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the United States I recognized no distinction of creeds in my appointments office.

  James K. Polk

  Office, Presidential, Thank God

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• No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pms, Nine, Interviews

  "The Chronicles of Narnia Vol III: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader".

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• I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mother, Home, Priceless

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• Studying the daily news can appear more interesting than the priesthood lesson manual. Sitting down to rest can be more attractive than making appointments to visit those who need our priesthood service.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Interesting, Sitting Down, Needs

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• The idea of a perfect vacation is not working or not having to work and having no appointments.

  Tom Welling

  Vacation, Ideas, Perfect

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• I have a podiatrist appointment at 2.

  Todd Barry

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• In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires." "Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o'clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.

  Alan Lightman

  Morning, Thinking, Two

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• I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Inspirational, Thinking, Important

  "Women in Business: Dr. Andrea Klemes, Chief Medical Officer, MDVIP" by Laura Dunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2015.

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• How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Shopping, Rude, Engagement

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.

  Jeannette Walls

  Running, People, Watches

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of times I'm traveling or have appointments, so I don't get to work out every day, but I try to get to the gym as much as I can.

  Brody Jenner

  Work Out, Trying, Gym

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 8, 2008.

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• When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Needs, Citizens, Racist

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• I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better." "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he said." That's why I was listening so closely. I may have to ask the baron to repeat some parts of his report on his grain tax." "I am sure you can arrange an appointment." "I am sure I can too.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Eye, Listening

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• Watch out Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and supreme court appointments and Rove-style politics, we're coming in there to shake things up!

  Tom Toles

  Issues, Style, Energy

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