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• I'm not sure that pasteurized thinking is rich enough in intellectual vitamins

  Keith Laumer

  Thinking, Intellectual, Vitamins

  Keith Laumer (2002). “Retief!”, Baen

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• Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and cats with a taste for homicide are pithy and uproarious and not to be missed. Notes from the Underwire is charming, hilarious, and just snarky enough to be ultimately satisfying.

  Jen Lancaster

  Book, Cat, Taste

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• Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.

  John Cowper Powys

  Forget Everything, Mind, May

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• Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it.

  Michael Baisden

  Wise, Cheating, Intelligent

  Michael Baisden (1995). “Never Satisfied: How/why Men Cheat”, Legacy Pub

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• The golden moment when I’m not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget.

  Sonya Sones

  Golden Moments, Remember, Forget

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• We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?

  James Altucher

  Blessed, Order, Not Good Enough

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• This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

  Abhinav Bindra

  Commonwealth Games, Nine, Lasts

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• Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let the Bible define God. Our tradition says that Jesus is God. Maybe we should act as if we think he is instead of worshipping a book. Maybe we should be brave enough to admit that we are compelled to either become blinded ideologues or we need to forthrightly pick and choose what we follow in the Bible. Most Christians do that anyway, many just don’t admit it.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Book

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• I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.

  Rachel Gibson

  Morning, Couple, Night

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• If you want it bad enough, you have to be willing to fight for it.

  Chalene Johnson

  Fighting, Want, Willing

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• The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

  Dana Spiotta

  Inspirational, Issues, Choices

  Dana Spiotta (2012). “Stone Arabia”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.

  Steve Aylett

  Genius, Snipers

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• Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them.

  Steven Heighton

  Writing, Luck, May

  "Workbook: Memos and Dispatches On Writing". Book by Steven Heighton, 2011.

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• When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.

  Henry Williamson

  Country, Heart, Pride

  Henry Williamson (1966). “A solitary war”

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• Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

  Henry Williamson

  Otters, Long, Water

  Henry Williamson (1960). “The Henry Williamson animal saga”, Macdonald and Jane's

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• We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The moment is bleeding off the page. We live on the precipice of our perceptions. At the edge of every living instant, the world shears away like a cliff of ice into the sea of what is forgotten.

  Ivan Vladislavic

  Ice, Sea, Perception

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• Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

  Mark Lawrence

  Lying, Long, Secret

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.166, Penguin

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• Women have innate talents and exceptional abilities that go unnoticed by our society, and that women themselves often do not fully appreciate. If every woman were to listen closely enough to her own secret song- not simply with ears, but with eyes (all three!), loins, breasts, heart, spirit, and soul- she would discover a power that she has carried with her since before the beginning of time.

  Laurie Cabot

  Song, Heart, Eye

  Laurie Cabot (2013). “The Witch in Every Woman: Reawakening the Magical Nature of the Feminine to Heal, Protect, Create, and Emp ower”, p.15, Delta

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• Homework strongly indicates that the teachers are not doing their jobs well enough during the school day. It's not like they'll let you bring your home stuff to school and work on it there. You can't say, 'I didn't finish sleeping at home, so I have to work on finishing my sleep here.

  Jim Benton

  Teacher, Jobs, Home

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• I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Range, Claims, Cases

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• Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

  Jean Giono

  Men, Valleys, Littles

  Jean Giono (2013). “Blue Boy”, p.151, Read Books Ltd

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• But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a café latte to perk him up. The pyramids were designed and constructed without a whiff of a sniff of caffeine. Coffee was introduced to Europe only in 1615. The achievements of antiquity are quite enough to cow the modern human, but when you realize that they did it all without caffeine it becomes almost unbearable.

  Mark Forsyth

  Coffee, Europe, Pyramids

  Mark Forsyth (2011). “The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language”, p.154, Icon Books Ltd

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• If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia meets its obligations. The figures are very simple, you do not need to be an expert. It is enough to know how to do a subtraction. China will grow very quickly, India also, and even Saudi Arabia projections of the 3 Mb/day will not be enough to meet the rise of Chinese demand.

  Fatih Birol

  Simple, Iraq, Chinese

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• Quentin Tarantino was talking about Ordell a little bit, and I was like, "I'm sure Ordell is one of those people who thought Superfly was the greatest movie ever made." So he cuts his hair and straightens it, but he never has enough money to maintain it perfectly. So it's kind of nappy around the edges, straight and kind of puffed up. That's why he'd always keep it in a ponytail or a braid. We were just having fun and creating a distinctive character.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Fun, Character, Cutting

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• I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

  Nicole Appleton

  Art, Want, Path

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