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• ...all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they'd never be able to do it but it's a great idea and would wake people up in this country.

  Brad Thor

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

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• And the very important fact that I'm here to worry with you and go through all of this - every little bit of it - by your side, even your worst-case-scenario, should it somehow come to that. You wouldn't be doing any of it alone.' Her voice drops and she looks down at our hands, fingers entwined, resting on her lap. 'Whatever happens, there will always be us.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Hands, Your Side, Worst Case Scenario

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• The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

  William Wilberforce

  Sick, Community, Political

  William Wilberforce (2003). “A Practical View: Of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society, Contrasted with Real Christianity”, p.389, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Minho was the first one to speak since the food had come. “Maybe we should just give in to those shuckfaces. Do what they want. One day we’ll all sit around, fat and happy.” Thomas knew he didn’t mean a word of it. “Yeah, maybe you can find a nice pretty girl who works here, settle down, get married and have kids. Just in time for the world to end in a sea of lunatics.” Minho kept at it. “WICKED’s going to figure out this blueprint business and we’ll all live happily ever after.

  James Dashner

  Girl, Nice, Kids

  James Dashner (2013). “Maze Runner 3: The Death Cure”, p.37, Chicken House

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• Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

  Carl Jung

  Fashion, Voice, Doe

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• Have you told Eric and the rest of them that—” “That I’m a vampire? No. It isn’t the sort of thing you just drop into casual conversation.” “Maybe not, but they’re your friends. They should know. And besides, they’ll just think it makes you more of a rock god, like that vampire Lester.” “Lestat,” Simon said. “That would be the vampire Lestat. And he’s fictional.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Rocks, Vampire

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

  Anton Chekhov

  Thinking, Students, Perpetual

  Anton Chekhov (2016). “The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.

  Margaret Atwood

  Forgotten, Remembered, Knows

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.26, Anchor

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• Knowing yourself and coming to trust your feelings and your intuition will open up your life to greater possibilities and keep you moving toward your goals. One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.

  Miranda Kerr

  Moving, Knowing, Goal

  Miranda Kerr (2010). “Treasure Yourself”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• Jack furiously chopped vegetables. "Captain Dependable! Wait, we vetoed that one. The Divine Door Maker? Too much? Hmm...Handsome Hero, but maybe I should move away from alliteration. Something sleek. Our Lord and Master Jack.

  Kiersten White

  Moving, Hero, Doors

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• A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau

  Karl Pilkington

  Block, Blood, Cake

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• That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Laying Down, Lost

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• My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take it, like it's something they should be supportive about. I just mean that they are two basic facts about me.

  Emily Giffin

  Mean, Names, Two

  Emily Giffin (2014). “The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter”, p.785, St. Martin's Press

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• Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

  Jasper Fforde

  Excuse, Used, Estates

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• ...lying spread-eagled in the hall with only my ankle inside the room that kept me prisoner here. They really should have thought of that and tagged my neck or something.

  Kiersten White

  Lying, Should Have, Ankles

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• Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.

  David Allen

  Stress, Thinking, Two

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• I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Believe, People, Merit

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• You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

  Steven Moffat

  Boss, Waste, Wasting Time

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• But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Broken, Doe, Needs

  Ilsa J. Bick (2011). “Ashes”, p.270, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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• Coffee?" Santangelo calls down to us. We both look up. He,Ben, and Raffy are hanging over the side. "Is it espresso?" Anson Choi asks behind us. "Freshly percolated," Ben answers. "You should see the gadgets they have up here." Anson Choi aims a begging look at Griggs. "You want to sell out over a coffee?" Griggs asks him with disgust. "They've got muffins as well," I tell them. "Double chocolate chip. His mum made them." Griggs gets up and holds out a hand to me. "Truce.

  Melina Marchetta

  Coffee, Hands, Espresso

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• The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quell…well she never kissed me like that…I should have volunteered to take your place in the first Games. Protected her then…I guess it’s Katniss’ problem. Who to choose…Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can’t survive without.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Should Have, Games

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• Are you OK?" I asked. "I think so." Logan stared at me, and a smile pulled up his lips. "But maybe you should give me mouth-to-mouth, just to make sure.

  Jennifer Estep

  Thinking, Giving, Mouths

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Touch of Frost”, p.176, Kensington Books

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• Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand to spar. He’d done it almost without instruction. That had shocked Tukks. But why should it have? You were not shocked when a child knew how to breathe. You were not shocked when a skyeel took flight for the first time. You should not be shocked when you hand Kaladin Stormblessed a spear and he knows how to use it.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Children, Hands, Use

  Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.1248, Macmillan

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• When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

  John Green

  People, Towns, Nasty

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.46, A&C Black

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• How did anyone survive this world, with these bodies whose memories wouldn't stay in the past where they should? With the emotions that were so strond I couldn't tell what I felt anymore?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Memories, Past, World

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