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• Oh, by the way, is this your armor? (Grace) It is, or was. (Julian) Can we keep it? (Grace) If you like. Why? (Julian) ’Cause, ooo baby, you are one hot tamale in that getup. This outfit alone will get you laid at least four or five times a day. (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Grace, Hot

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• Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouragement

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 05, 2013

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• There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

  Julia Child

  Art, Sculpture, Derivatives

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.145, Anchor

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• American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.

  Umberto Eco

  Spring, Coffee, Humble

  Umberto Eco (1995). “How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Understanding, Humanity, Useless

  L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “The Parafaith War”, p.149, Macmillan

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• Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all. Why are there four oaks at Fourtrees, if not to stand for the four Clans?" Firestar gazed up at the massive oak trees, then back at Bluestar. Fury pure as a lighting flash rushed through his body. "Are you mouse-brained?" he snarled. "Are you telling me SkyClan had to leave because there weren't enough trees?

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Tree, Body

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• three out of four demons prefer barbeque sauce over hemoglobin

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Three, Sauce, Demon

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• In this family, we always celebrate each other's birthdays. I don't care if you're four or fourteen or forty and scattered around the world. We gotta stick by each other, okay? And meals- as long as you live under the same roof, you have at least one meal a day together. I don't care if it's a dreaded hot dog in front of the dastardly TV as long as you're all there. -Maeve Bennett

  James Patterson

  Dog, Long, Together

  James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (2008). “Step on a crack”

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• One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

  Agatha Christie

  Things In Life, Twenties, Way

  Agatha Christie (1985). “The pale horse”, Pocket

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• But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Twenties, Cards

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• You know, I’ve had a really wonderful night tonight. I got to tell Kyrian and Julian that Valerius is in town and spent, oh I don’t know, three, four hours trying to keep them from going after the Roman. Then, just when I could relax and do my job, I find out there are Daimons in the swamp and no Talon to kill them. And why wasn’t Talon here? Because Tarzan was swinging off a balcony to save Jane from Cheetah. Now all I can do is stand here and say, next fiasco, please, right this way. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Night, Trying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.823, Macmillan

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• And I don’t want his body touching something I wear. He’ll contaminate it. (Sasha) Oh, good grief, Sasha. Grow up. You’re four hundred years old and you’re acting like a whelp. It’s not like he has cooties or anything. (Astrid) Yes he does! (Sasha)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Growing Up, Grief, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.90, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• You know–my flower, I am responsible for her. She doesn’t even have four thorns to protect herself from harm.’ (Zarek) Why do you love that book so? (Astrid) Because I want to hear the bells when I look up at the sky. I want to laugh, but I don’t know how. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Flower, Book, Sky

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• you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Needs, Free Will

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• I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Cat, Animal

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• I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago." "Waitress!" Jonas screamed, clicking his fingers madly. "Bring two!" then, more quietly,"You want a neck massage? A bedtime story? A bullet in the ear?

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Two, Style, Massage

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• Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

  J. K. Rowling

  Perfectly Normal, Numbers, Proud

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”, p.9, Pottermore

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• The only way woman can truly be completely satisfied is to get herself four different men--an old one, an ugly one, a Mandingo, and a gay guy.

  Steve Harvey

  Gay, Men, Guy

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• It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

  Naomi Novik

  Luck, Three, Has Beens

  Twitter post from Dec 10, 2014

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• Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Letters, Good Things, Starting

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• By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

  Glenn Beck

  Men, Way, Chalkboards

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• This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mind, Twenties, Would Be

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.49, Penguin Group

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• They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water. For twenty-four years they were guilty, but this first year was the only one which seemed like happiness. Looking back on it, when they were old, they did not remember that in this year it had ever rained or frozen. The four seasons were coloured like the edge of a rose petal for them.

  T. H. White

  Years, Rivers, Rose

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• My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable" pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued.

  Koren Zailckas

  Cutting, Looks, Sandwiches

  Koren Zailckas (2010). “Fury: True Tales of a Good Girl Gone Ballistic”, p.41, Penguin

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• you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

  Toni Morrison

  Two, Feet, Forests

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