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• Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Thinking, Always Trying, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, “Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.)

  Nora Ephron

  Believe, Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason

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• Boys, welcome to the wonderful world of talking to women about their feelings. As a handy primer, here are a few things you should know: 1) Women have feelings. 2) You will spend the next seventy years or so trying to guess what they're feeling and why. 3) You will be wrong most of the time. 4) I like French Fries.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Boys, Talking, Years

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Shattered Lens: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.108, Macmillan

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• He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.

  Charlie Higson

  Dumb, Stories, Excuse

  Charlie Higson (2015). “The Enemy Series”, p.257, Penguin UK

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• The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule.

  Neil Pasricha

  Food, Long, Three

  Neil Pasricha (2010). “The Book of Awesome”, p.68, Penguin

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• You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

  Homer

  Might, Calendars, Tomorrow

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• Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Philosophical, Animal, Race

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy.

  Cory Monteith

  Fire, Glasses, Ice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

  Peter Watts

  Fighting, Skin Tone, Skins

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.92, Head of Zeus

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• I love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Orange, Hands, Vegetables

  "Releasing My Inner Emeril: Lagasse Grilled" by Perry Garfinkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2009.

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• The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

  Bix Beiderbecke

  Song, Band, Jazz

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• Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

  Josh Billings

  Beauty, Beautiful, Handsome

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• Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.

  Dean McLaughlin

  Running, Shelter, Welcome

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• I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Trying, May

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.

  Taye Diggs

  House, Awful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whenever I go into Bloomingdales, I head to the womens shoe section and think, Hmm, maybe Ill get my next girlfriend a pair of those. I always buy my mom Louboutins or Jimmy Choos for her birthday. I have a pretty good sense of style, all in all. Once I figure out a woman, I know what she should wear - which comes in handy when you have a mom and girlfriends. You can always make them happy with a nice bag or a pair of pumps.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Mom, Girlfriend, Nice

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• Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Gaps, Today

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• Little brats yellin 'Trick or Treat' all through my screen door,
  When y'all should be at home sleep,
  Instead of at my front porch 15 deep.
  The jack o' lantern came in handy...
  I can turn my porch light out like I ain't got no candy.
  But ain't that somethin?
  You buy a Halloween costume and a pumpkin,
  Almost gave your children a heart attack.
  It's a tradition, but who the hell started that?

  Kam

  Children, Halloween, Rap

  Song: Holiday Madness, Album: Neva Again, 1993

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• I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is.

  Frank O'Hara

  Regret, Clouds, People

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• For some Church members the Book of Mormon remains unread. Others use it occasionally as if it were merely a handy book of quotations. Still others accept and read it but do not really explore and ponder it. The book is to be feasted upon, not nibbled (see 2 Nephi 31:20).

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Book, Church, Use

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• Since I didn't have a spork handy, I leaned over the sink and scooped up a palmful of cold water and pressed it against my face. There had to be a better option than a violent sporking. There had to be a way to get rid of my dad.

  Devon Monk

  Dad, Water, Way

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.13, Penguin

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• I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy.

  Jo Brand

  Healthy, Vain, Mackerel

  "What's in your basket, Jo Brand?" by Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2001.

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• History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.

  Howard Zinn

  Lying, Past, Government

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• Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Fit, Made, Said

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.41, University of Illinois Press

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• Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.

  Grant Hart

  Something New, Pens

  Source: music.avclub.com

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