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• We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Rivers, Flow, Steps

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• Ladies. Large masses of girls are often prone to this salutation. I hate being mollified with this unsolicited "ladies" business. I know we're all women. I am conscious of my breasts. Do I have to be conscious of yours as well? Do men do this? Do they go, "Men: Meet for ribs in the shed after the game. Keg beer, raw eggs, and death metal only." I would imagine not.

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, Hate, Beer

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.133, Portobello Books

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• communication is such a two-edged sword for guys. On the one hand, they almost always mean what they say. Refreshing, I know. On the other hand, getting them to actually say it can be like coaxing a corpse to tap-dance. Not that it can't be done. But it's so freaking exhausting. Not to mention the cost in heavyweight fishing line and Savion Glover videos.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Communication, Mean, Hands

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• I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Thinking, Mind

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.40, Melville House

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• That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Dream, Sunset

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• I'll teach you how to defend yourself, how to maim a man. We can use Po as a model.' 'Wonderful,' Po said. 'It's quite boring really, the way you beat me to death with your hands and feet, Katsa. It'll be refreshing to have you come at me with a knife.

  Kristin Cashore

  Men, Feet, Hands

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• I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of fribbles and counter-coxcombs, I own I find refreshing!

  Georgette Heyer

  Men, Air, Honest

  Georgette Heyer (1955). “Bath Tangle”, London : Heinemann

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• It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.

  James Patterson

  Normal, Said, Seems

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

  Ray Bradbury

  Rivers, Stopping, Stories

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• Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for.

  Terry Pratchett

  Beer, Nannies, Pay

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• I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Humility, Pride, People

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• Adrian: I find prostitutes vastly important. Nathan Ivashkov: Well. How refreshing to see that things haven’t changed.

  Richelle Mead

  Important, Changed, Wells

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• I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Life, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer is obvious; as refreshing as summer is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Summer, Autumn, Paradise

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• At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sweet, Morning, Food

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Roundabout Papers (from the Cornhill Magazine): To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon”, p.177

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• So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.

  Lin Yutang

  Work, People, Unhappy

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• It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Sound, Pops, Spears

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• If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

  Alan Jackson

  People, Cynical, Everyday

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

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• What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

  Ed O'Brien

  Thinking, People, Separating

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• I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh.

  Teresa Palmer

  Thinking, Light, Self

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• The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

  Israel Zangwill

  Believe, People, History

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• Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world.

  Ann Veneman

  Humility, Focus, Empathy

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• As one who was never terribly enamored of Hillary Clinton's personality to start with, I grudgingly admit to enjoying her recent near-tears transformation. Plenty of critics concede her rarely seen emotion was heartfelt, but also that it was due to the 20-hour-day rigors of the campaign trail, making her perhaps the only candidate ever to win the New Hampshire primary because she needed a nap. Still, it was refreshing to watch her punch through the icy crust of her own phoniness, so that the molten core of artificiality could gush forth.

  Matt Labash

  Winning, Naps, Personality

  "Making Political Trouble". www.weeklystandard.com. January 28, 2008.

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• Partisans present some of the most refreshing music I've heard in a long while, uncompromising, very well written and very well played. It demands serious attention. I hear in these players a sense of common purpose and resolve, and a strong command of a dialect uniquely suited to this music. It's heartening to hear music that looks to find its own particular place.

  Steve Swallow

  Strong, Player, Common Purpose

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• What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner - the nice, fresh, green, and crisp salad, full of life and health, which seems to invigorate the palate and dispose the masticating powers to a much lorger duration.

  Alexis Soyer

  Nice, Salad, Green

  Alexis Soyer (1855). “A Shilling Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy”, p.155

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