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• A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

  Lewis Thomas

  Location, Sun, Bees

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mvp, Years, Lasts

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Nice, People, Doe

  "The Tunisia Twitter Revolution That Wasn’t". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2011.

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• For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the words--their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on. Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max. She remembered reading to him when he was sick. It he in the basement? she wondered. Or is he stealing a glimpse of the sky again?

  Markus Zusak

  Running, Book, Reading

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• I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.

  Lee Trevino

  Believe, Eagles, Lasts

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• Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Sleep, Elephants, Friendly

  Pierre Trudeau's address to the Press Club in Washington, D.C., March 25, 1969.

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• I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Witty, Political, Six Months

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• If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Writing, Men, Wife

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.3

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• I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

  Tracey Ullman

  Doors, Missing, Rubber

  "Q&A: Tracey Ullman" by Devin Gordon, www.newsweek.com. September 19, 2004.

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• I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports, Teacher, Zebras

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.5, Macmillan

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• I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

  Gabrielle Union

  People, Kind, Hops

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• Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.

  Fred Upton

  Abortion, Together, Used

  "Upton hits right tone to win gavel" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. December 07, 2010.

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• What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Being forgotten," he whispered.

  Mitch Albom

  People, Forgotten, Moments

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.

  Ville Valo

  Beautiful, Mistake, Reason

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• And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

  Jim Valvano

  Cancer, Fighting, Thinking

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Thinking, Next Week, Years

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• Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Would Be, Generations, Care

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• If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Mother, Wine, Night

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.

  Dwyane Wade

  Night, Nba, Games

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• I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Focus, Needs, Opera

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'I've tried to be vegetarian but I keep falling off the horse and, like, eating it'" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

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• The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Germany, Albums, Way

  "Operatic Pop Singer Rufus Wainwright in Concert". The NPR.org Interview, www.npr.org. June 9, 2007.

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• So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is going well, one book leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books don't stick or take, when your mood and the mood of the book are fighting like cats, you'd rather do anything but attempt the next paragraph, or reread the last one for the tenth time.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Reading, Cat

  Nick Hornby (2006). “The complete polysyllabic spree”

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• I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.

  Scott Walker

  Hate, Thinking, Office

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• I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by [Elia] Kazan and was called Baby Doll.

  Eli Wallach

  Baby, Years, Wife

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Numbers, People, Experience

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