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• Her dark-eyed glare narrowed on me. "You could have least given him a shirt, Kaylee." "Like you're an expert on when it's appropriate to wear a shirt." Sabine bristled. "This seems headed into girl-fight territory," Tod said. "Should I make popcorn?

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Dark, Fighting

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• I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the variable emotional spectrum, either as an appropriate response to situations or as a way of turning inward and mentally chewing over problems to find solutions.

  Andrew Weil

  Believe, Emotional, Healthy

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• laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

  Anthony Burgess

  Law, Orange, Creation

  A Clockwork Orange pt. 1, ch. 2 (1962)

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• What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

  Iain Banks

  Zoos, Rome, Violence

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• Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.

  Frantz Fanon

  Hate, Lynching, Hatred

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.53, Pluto Press

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• The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Flower, Autumn, Cutting

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• And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

  Frank O'Hara

  Stars, Sky, Space

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.307, Univ of California Press

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• Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves. God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate.

  Joanne Harris

  Dog, Thinking, People

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• Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.

  Fred Rogers

  Grief, Sadness, Grieving

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

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• I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.

  Lou Holtz

  People, Goal, Effort

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• Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.

  Maya Banks

  Cliffs, Hops, Plunge

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• I went up on my toes to kiss him, and he groaned. "Do you really think this is appropriate on school grounds?" "Nope." I wrapped my arms around his neck. "And I happen to know there isn't an appropriate thought running through your head right now." "Or any other time." Tod pulled me close and held me so tight my ribs almost hut, but I didn't want him to let go. Ever.

  Rachel Vincent

  Letting Go, Running, School

  Rachel Vincent (2014). “Soul Screamers: Volume 4”, p.75, Harlequin

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• The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.

  Thomas Harris

  Thinking, Iron, Elements

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• There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You”, p.66, Multnomah

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• I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away and I'll show you.

  Richelle Mead

  Book, Mind, Guessing

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.47, Penguin

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• It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Flower, Sunshine, Thinking

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Decision, Information

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• Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates. Indeed, the beauty and elegance of the physical laws themselves are only apparent when expressed in the appropriate mathematical framework.

  Melvin Schwartz

  Nature, Science, Law

  Melvin Schwartz (2012). “Principles of Electrodynamics”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted?

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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• History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.

  George Santayana

  Kings, History, Interesting

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.378, 谷月社

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• Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Country, Fashion, Lying

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• Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

  Charlie Hunter

  Music, Thinking, Style

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• The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

  Bill Gates

  Should Have, People, Vision

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• The digital premium business content model is broken and we should all be taking appropriate steps now to ensure the viability of this business is preserved by other means.

  David Moore

  Business, Mean, Broken

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• Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

  Neil Postman

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

  Neil Postman (2009). “Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World”, p.38, Delta

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