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• Igor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?' Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning in jars! But don't let that worry you, Mr Lipspick. Just because I'm employing an Igor and working in a cellar doesn't mean I'm some sort of madman, ha ha ha!' Ha ha,' agreed Moist. Ha hah hah!,' said Hubert. 'Hahahahahaha!! Ahahahahahahhhhh!!!!!-' Bent slapped him on the back. Hubert coughed. Sorry about that, it's the air down here,' he mumbled.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sorry, Mean, Light

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• You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.

  Graham Chapman

  Animal, People, Silence

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• All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Numbers, Support

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.118

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• Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

  Margaret Halsey

  Patterns, Liquor, Employed

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• ... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

  Lady Hester Stanhope

  Philosophical, Discovery, Sublime

  Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1846). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope”, p.13

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• From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Blood, Discovery, Long

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• I have an inviolable rule against employing nepots and spouses, because they breed politics. Whenever two people get married, one of them must depart - preferably the female, to look after the baby.

  David Ogilvy

  Baby, Money, Two

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Black, Doubt

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Miscellanies”, p.135

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• The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

  Walter Bagehot

  Book, Writing, Eye

  Walter Bagehot, Norman St. John-Stevas (1965). “The collected works of Walter Bagehot”

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• Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

  Honore de Balzac

  Character, Men, Two

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• People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

  Richard Steele

  Inspirational Life, Passion, People

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• Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

  Mark Morris

  Sex, Weakness, Way

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• I strive to view my students as unique human beings all of whom come to my classroom with a personal history, cultural perceptions and traditions, goals and aspirations as well as fears and insecurities. By employing the principles of Personalization, I am able to connect with my students in a genuine way in order to build trust, respect and rapport in the classroom.

  Joe Harris

  Unique, Order, Views

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• Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Tools, Use, Method

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

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• The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

  Denis Dutton

  Art, Survival, Intellectual

  Denis Dutton (2009). “The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited mode of two centuries ago should certainly be permitted to follow without undue restraint a practice so harmless, so free from essential error, and so sanctioned by precedent, as that of employing in his poetical compositions the smooth and inoffensive allowable rhyme.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Errors, Expression

  "The Allowable Rhyme". Book by H. P. Lovecraft, 1915.

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• Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.

  Plotinus

  Two, Soul, Desire

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

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• If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.

  Tony Abbott

  Husband, Father, Boss

  "Tony Abbott under fire". AM with Linda Mottram, www.abc.net.au. July 2 , 2002.

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• Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker.

  Joan Robinson

  Waiting, Income, Rewards

  Joan Robinson (1973). “Collected economic papers”

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• Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Mean, Imagination

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Magician: A Novel”, p.67, The Floating Press

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• As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

  Calvin Trillin

  Book, Average, Milk

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!

  Eleanora Duse

  Movie, Art, Mistake

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• Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.

  Anita Roddick

  Country, Children, Mean

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• The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Moving, Practice, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• At home and abroad, military men and women are showing purpose and dedication in defending American ideas. They are performing in our country's best traditions under circumstances both difficult and complex. Thanks to their determined spirit of patriotism and professionalism, our country has a powerful and unified defense team, employing its forces in the constant quest for peace and freedom.

  Melvin Laird

  Country, Powerful, Team

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