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• I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

  Chinua Achebe

  Desire, Genocide, Treated

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• With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

  Levon Helm

  House, Horny, Horns

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• Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Book, Hero

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• I can't grill vegetables, shellfish or steaks without tongs. Don't bother with those long-handled grilling tongs normally found in the BBQ section of your home store. Get intimate with your grill and opt for the regular stainless steel tongs.

  Bobby Flay

  Home, Vegetables, Bbq

  Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter

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• Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

  Dave Barry

  Technology, People, Computer

  Dave Barry (1986). “Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week”, p.43, Rodale

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• A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

  Annie Dillard

  Time, Hands, Schedules

  "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, 1989.

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• African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

  Mos Def

  Art, Cheer, Healing

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'

  Adam Carolla

  Real, Golf, Gay

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• I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

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• For 'Power of 10,' you can look at the methodology at CBS.com, it's a company called Rasmussen Reports. We poll thousands and thousands of people for each question, a real cross section of the United States.

  Drew Carey

  Real, People, United States

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• The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Heart, Music Is, Rhythm

  "Wynton Marsalis Toots His Own Horn". Interview with Miles Marshall Lewis, www.ebony.com. October 8, 2013.

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• I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Insecure, Years, Scar

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• My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

  Norm Crosby

  Funny, Graduation, Witty

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• I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Thanksgiving, Being Yourself, Fun

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• The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

  Mark Twain

  Ideas, World, Curious

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.194, Courier Corporation

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• Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Airplane, Giving

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.94, Dell

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• One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Believe, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Truth, America, People

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• A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Intelligent, Seems

  "The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1936.

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• America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Home, Europe

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• The Antichrist, Section 7

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Antichrist

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.335, Vintage

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• The Gay Science, section 108

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Gay

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• There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Government, Community, Liberty

  "Southey's Colloquies on Society". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.

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• We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.

  Jean-Andre Deluc

  Science, Men, Sea

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• I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.

  Phil McGraw

  Moving, Tubas, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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