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• A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness.

  Desmond Morris

  Friendship, People, Relaxation

  Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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• Matching your hat to your shoe to your bag, or your necklace to your earrings, has a tendency to look dated. Mixing up your accessories adds interest to an outfit, and can make you look much more modern and polished.

  Stacy London

  Shoes, Mixing, Add

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• Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

  Harrison Ford

  War, Kids, Your Side

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• You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

  Curtis Hanson

  Men, Typewriters, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Matching the right kidney to the right patient is one example of an algorithmic artificial intelligence.

  Hari Sreenivasan

  Example, Kidneys, Patient

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.

  Justin Timberlake

  Awards, Choices, Denim

  "Playboy Interview: Justin Timberlake". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. June 13, 2011.

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• Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It's kind of a secret. People say to us, 'Why did you get that?' And we say, 'No reason.'

  Marilyn Manson

  Tattoo, Brother, Flower

  "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• The Japanese tend to be far more co-operative and docile and group-oriented. It would be easier to get the entire population of Tokyo to wear matching outfits than to get any two randomly selected Americans to agree on pizza toppings.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Japan, Two

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.63, Ballantine Books

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• Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

  Winston Churchill

  Fun, Lovely, Looks

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• If women are often frustrated because men do not respond to their troubles by offering matching troubles, men are often frustrated because women do.

  Deborah Tannen

  Frustration, Men, Offering

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• Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

  George Monbiot

  People, Choices, Survival

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• Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Years, Shoes, Age

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• But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.

  Peter Watts

  Patterns, Equal, Comprehension

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.80, Head of Zeus

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• In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.

  Dorothea Brande

  Women, Feelings, Triumph

  Dorothea Brande (2013). “Wake Up and Live!: A Formula for Success That Really Works!”, p.70, Penguin

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• I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ... Now, it seems you must find The Dress, then The Dress needs to have The Belt, and a complementary but not overly-matching bag must be found which works with not only the correct hosiery, but with something to throw over yourself if you become chilly.

  Caitlin Moran

  Fashion, Clothes, Over You

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• We was on our way to fame, got matching suits and Beatle boots.

  Frank Zappa

  Boots, Way, Suits

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• Six happy years together
  Such a perfect matching
  You're entering the 7 year itch zone
  This is no time for scratching

  John Walter Bratton

  Wedding Anniversary, Years, Perfect

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• Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Forgiveness, War, Naked

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• If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

  Robert W. Floyd

  Design, Support, Language

  "The Paradigms of Programming", 1978 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 22 (8), August 1979: pp. 455 - 460,

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• The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

  Babe Paley

  Looks, Bores

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• The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Challenges, Ineptitude

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• When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

  Greg Kinnear

  Kids, Ideas, Order

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• I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous on you! Let me find a matching handbag!' Then, the other is being like some sort of Vice or taskforce, law enforcement, undercover [person]. Or possibly someday becoming a guerilla activist - I'm kind of in-training for that now anyways. So, maybe my retirement will be jumping on ships, kidnapping, and [participating in] espionage. I still fantasize.

  Mike Ness

  Retirement, Jobs, Jumping

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• Maybe we should go on lots of double dates,” Cath said, “and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time.” “Pfft,” Levi said, “I’m picking out my own dress.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Light, Unity, Dresses

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.622, St. Martin's Griffin

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• If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.

  Marcel Proust

  Nature, Flower, Garden

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