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• In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.

  Martha Beck

  Steps, Mystery, Moments

  "What the heck's a vision board?" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. June 28, 2010.

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• It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

  Raymond Chandler

  Silly, Hair, Voice

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.222, Modern Library

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• They were made up names in Dune that I didn't know how to pronounce, but I knew how I should sound because I was a sci-fi fan myself. I hadn't read the book, but I knew that I was the princess of the universe. I went in and sort of made her up, and David Lynch thought it matched and cast me.

  Virginia Madsen

  Book, Princess, Names

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.

  Annie Besant

  Husband, Home, Thinking

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

  Jack Kemp

  Passion, Ideas, Partisans

  "Kemp Won't Enter 1996 Primaries" by Dan Balz, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 1995.

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• I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Thinking, Together, Clubs

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.143, Library of America

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• I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Mother, Father, Gambling

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• One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Media, House, Wikileaks

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• According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Unique, Expression

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• Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)

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• Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fall

  Epictetus (2009). “The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus”, p.41, The Floating Press

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• You wouldn't match Melanie and me up, and if we hadn't gotten stuck together as lab partners in junior high science, I doubt if we'd have matched us up either. I'm not sure why we even stuck, except that we each probably find the other to be entertaining...Besides I feel like it was a personal mission of mine to broaden Melanie's world, though I think she felt the same for me.

  Deb Caletti

  Thinking, Doubt, Together

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• She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Different, Celebration, Thread

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

  Don DeLillo

  Rocks, Hysteria, Genius

  "Why we keep on rolling with Dylan". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 8, 2006.

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• Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time.

  Bob Beauprez

  Team, Long, Tickets

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• Because our lies matched. It was a sign.

  Jay Asher

  Lying

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.20, Penguin

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• His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely beautiful head. The head was that of the wildest of all wild creatures- a stallion born wild- and it was beautiful, savage, splendid. A stallion with a wonderful physical perfection that matched his savage, ruthless spirit.

  Walter Farley

  Beautiful, Fall, Perfection

  Walter Farley, Steven Farley (2011). “The Young Black Stallion”, p.136, Yearling

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• Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings, taking no detail or person for granted.

  Richelle Mead

  Rose, Details, Lions

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• And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

  Laini Taylor

  Butterfly, Blood, Rushing

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• And – I think you know, don’t you? – that I love you, Anne.’ I feel as if I have been living in a loveless world for too long. The last tender face I saw was my father’s when he sailed for England. ‘You do? Truly?’ ‘I do.’ He rises to his feet and pulls me up to stand beside him. My chin comes to his shoulder, we are both dainty, long-limbed, coltish: well-matched. I turn my face into his jacket. ‘Will you marry me?’ he whispers. ‘Yes,’ I say.

  Philippa Gregory

  Father, Love You, Thinking

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• People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.

  Rainbow Rowell

  People, Way, Pairs

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• On Monday they went out for a private picnic. On Tuesday they went for a carriage drive. On Wednesday they went to pick bluebells. On Thursday they fished at the lake, returning with damp clothes and sun-glazed complexions, laughing together at a joke they didn't share with anyone else. On Friday they danced together at an impromptu musical evening, looking so well matched one of the guests remarked it was a pleasure to watch them. On Saturday Matthew woke up wanting to murder someone.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Friday, Monday, Clothes

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• When the pace of our feet matched perfectly, I felt a deep inner pang of satisfaction. I could have gone on walking like that forever, side by side with him. There had been few times in my life I had ever inhabited a moment so fully, with no loneliness lurking at the edges.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Loneliness, Feet, Forever

  Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.370, Macmillan

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• How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.

  Joss Whedon

  Dna, Mind, Firsts

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• I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Believe, Ice, Mouths

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