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• Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.

  Julia Roberts

  Life, Laughing, Toes

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• Show me a woman who is prouder of her clean kitchen than of her collection of lingerie and I'll show you a woman with enlarged pores.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Kitchen, Lingerie, Clean

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• If we show Allah just a little bit of gratitude, He tells us, 'I will increase you, and increase you, and increase you, I swear to it. If you could only show Me the least bit of gratitude.'

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Gratitude, Littles, Increase

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• Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll… well, I’ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much.

  Charlotte Mendelson

  Reading, Thinking, Doors

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• To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.

  Rick Yancey

  Stars, Stupid, Mean

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• People often say, "Riots aren't revolutions." That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revolution that started without a riot.

  Joshua Clover

  People, Revolution, Riot

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• I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.

  Amy Tan

  Moving, Thinking, Knowing

  "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, October 17, 1995.

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• no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith

  Gerard Way

  Stupid, World, Ugly

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• Kids know what's going on. They always respond to The Beatles, for instance. Doesn't matter when they were born, they always seem to respond. Show me a kid who innately doesn't like The Beatles, and I'll show you a bad seed.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Kids, Matter, Born

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• You know when transformation happens? Right now. It’s a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Transformation, Shows

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• Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.

  Terry Pratchett

  Order, Justice, Molecules

  "Fictional character: Death". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Home, Long, Bird

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 07, 2012

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• The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.

  Yukio Mishima

  Art, Men, Ordinary

  Yukio Mishima (1969). “Thirst for love”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.

  Steven Erikson

  Diversity, Suffering, Doe

  Steven Erikson (2009). “The Bonehunters: Malazan Book Of Fallen 6”, p.1125, Random House

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• Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

  George R. R. Martin

  Lying, Dark, Path

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1075, Bantam

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• Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

  Tennessee Williams

  Sorrow, Superficial, Shows

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• Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Sleep, Attractive

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• Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.

  Libba Bray

  Boys, Fur, Phony

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• When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

  Pablo Neruda

  Intelligent, Fool, Shows

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.165, Macmillan

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• Are you crazy? The last thing you want to do is make a scene." "Well, I'm gonna make a movie if you don't show me some respect.

  Sister Souljah

  Crazy, Want, Lasts

  Sister Souljah (2004). “The Coldest Winter Ever”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• You show me what someone listens to, I’ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)

  Tad Williams

  Soul, Albums, Want

  Tad Williams (2012). “The Dirty Streets of Heaven: Bobby Dollar 1”, p.125, Hachette UK

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• Still hiding and afraid to let go. Waiting for you to find me uncover me and show me the way.

  Susane Colasanti

  Letting Go, Soulmate, Waiting

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• Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

  Leonard Cohen

  Limits, Ends, Shows

  Song: Dance Me To The End Of Love, Album: Various Positions, 1984

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• We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.

  Gayle Forman

  Kissing, Sky, Giving

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.79, Penguin

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• Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?

  Charlie Kaufman

  Falling In Love, Attention, Eternal Sunshine

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