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• I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

  Anne Fadiman

  Believe, Book, Scotch

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.4, Macmillan

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• In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Grandchildren, Silence, Forgiving

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• Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

  Frederick Busch

  Why Not, Littles, Pounds

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• Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No, we use facts connected with Him to outline qualities that correspond with Him, collecting a faint and feeble mental image from various quarters. Our noblest theologian is not one who has discovered the whole - our earthly shackles do not permit us the whole - but one whose mental image is by comparison fuller, who has gathered in his mind a richer picture, outline, or whatever we call it, of the truth.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Mind, Quality

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• Chelsea are up there with best teams in the world,and let's hope United can join us in quarter-finals.

  Jose Mourinho

  Team, Finals, World

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• These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and they still are. I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism. If the martial imagery alienates you, I can rephrase it. I want my lifemy bodyto be the place where the earth is cherished not devoured, where the sadist is granted no quarter, where the violence stops.

  Lierre Keith

  Spiritual, War, Passion

  Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.1, PM Press

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• A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Cutting, Men

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• God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Men, Age

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.880

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• [on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.

  Nora Ephron

  Movie, Weekend, Optimism

  The Los Angeles Times Interview, July 27, 1989.

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• It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

  Robert Breault

  Confused, Gps, Driving

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• Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span — pedestrian-only — was lined by monumental statues of saints.

  Laini Taylor

  Bridges, Icons, Rose

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• In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

  William Levy

  Giving, Cuba, Months

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• In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Three, Moral

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• The United States ... has been proud of its association with the State of Israel. We shall continue to stand with Israel. We are committed to Israel's survival and security. The United States for a quarter of a century has had an excellent relationship with the State of Israel. We have cooperated in many, many fields - in your security, in the well-being of the Middle East, and in leading what we all hope is a lasting peace throughout the world.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Israel, Presidential, Survival

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the four quarters of the earth, and HAVE RECEIVED THEIR RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity.

  Brigham Young

  Children, Earth, Four

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”

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• One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.

  Delia Ephron

  Mistake, Shopping, Turns

  Delia Ephron (1988). “Funny sauce”, Signet

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• The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Real, Irrational Fear, Problem

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• I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

  Beatrix Potter

  Thinking, Prejudice, Three

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• Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations over a void.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Intellectual, Three, Void

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• If your therapist asks if you have a quarter, then politely tells you to call someone who cares ... there's a good chance you're whining!

  Karen Scalf Linamen

  Who Cares, Chance, Whining

  Karen Scalf Linamen (2002). “Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt”

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• Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.

  Robert Orben

  Lasts, Economy, Said

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• I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

  Hugh Hefner

  Mother, Thinking, Numbers

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80". "The Big Story" with John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2006.

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• One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.

  Steven Pressfield

  Father, Three, Littles

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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• The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work.

  Steven Pressfield

  Wall, Mistake, Way

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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• In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we're going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he's out by a quarter-step and it's a bang-bang play, that's not a mistake. That's baseball. If you're out by four or five steps, it's ugly, it's a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt.

  Mike Scioscia

  Baseball, Hurt, Mistake

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