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• What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just … bleak?

  Rainbow Rowell

  What If, Parks, Mysterious

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.183, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Weed, War

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Doe, Opinion

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

  Alexander Wang

  Fashion, Icons, Clothes

  "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.

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• Not only is hair a part of the body, but because it continues to grow for a time after death, it was considered a symbol of life and spiritual power. Likewise, hair to me is an element of mystery and an intriguing subject that rouses my imagination.

  Hyon Gyon

  Spiritual, Imagination, Mystery

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it

  James Madison

  Exercise, America, Waiting

  James Madison (1999). “Writings”

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• The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens.

  Edward V. Long

  Liberty, Citizens, Irs

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Liberty, Comfort

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

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• ...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances.

  Harry Browne

  Thinking, Fbi Agents, Rights

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• It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Libertarian Party, Government, People

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin...: Posthumous and other writings”, p.111

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• See, when the government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Government, Hands

  "American Unmoved by Deficit - Except in Altoona". The Free Lance-Star Column, news.google.com. February 29, 1992.

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• The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

  Ray Lyman Wilbur

  Christian, Children, Compassion

  United States. Department of the Interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur, William Atherton DuPuy (1932). “Conservation in the Department of the Interior”, p.166

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• Within each piece, I create an intriguing balance between jewelry and the body, and an intensity which draws others to it.

  Sarah Richardson

  Balance, Pieces, Body

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• Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Darkness, Rewards, Looks

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• And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural artifact itself. What we've experienced is an inversion of consumption, one in which we've come to prefer the acts of acquisition over that which we are acquiring, the bottles over the wine.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Real, Wine, Thinking

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• If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

  Jello Biafra

  Voting, Would Be, Illegal

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• Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real history.

  Peter Lovesey

  Real, Pages Turning, Plot

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• It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized.

  Virginia Woolf

  Stress, Simple, Men

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

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• For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been.

  Virginia Woolf

  Light, Torches, Olivia

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.109

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• The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.

  John Calipari

  Kentucky, Program

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• Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence, to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite. If you like intriguing ideas delivered in an exciting plot, this is your meat.

  Gregory Benford

  Cutting, Ideas, People

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• Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.

  Gay Talese

  Sports, Jobs, Games

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• Every time you make the user make a decision they don’t care about, you have failed as a designer.

  Aza Raskin

  Decision, Care, Designer

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• The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

  Jessica Livingston

  Successful, Media, Path

  "The Advice For Any Woman Who Wants To Found A Startup" by Jessica Livingston, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 201.

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• I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.

  Andrew Mason

  Entrepreneur

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