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• When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school.

  Janet Evanovich

  School, Boys, Dust

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “Twelve Sharp”, p.325, Macmillan

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• Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

  Clifford Stoll

  Funny, Meaningful, Witty

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• Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Father, Islamic

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• The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.

  Todd Blackledge

  Sports, Volleyball, Winning

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• Forcing an answer only guarantees that no answer will come out." - Six

  Pittacus Lore

  Guarantees That, Guarantees, Answers

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• Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you have to buy me a large bag of candy and watch me eat it.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Night, Giving

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• When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.

  Flannery O'Connor

  News, Chickens, Has Beens

  Flannery O'Connor, Rosemary M. Magee (1987). “Conversations with Flannery O'Connor”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, "Who are you, my little one?" And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Girl, Mother, Baby

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.168, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Dna, Years

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• I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

  Wallace Stevens

  Office, Nine

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.121, Univ of California Press

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• I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... "Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen."

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Art, Blow

  "The Joy Luck Club". Book by Amy Tan, 1989.

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• On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog. So there you go.

  James Patterson

  Dog, Kids, Hands

  "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports". Book by James Patterson, May 29, 2007.

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• Why do you tolerate it? (Kat) The same reason Sin hasn’t resigned himself to death. There are six billion people on earth who need someone to protect them from things that are scarier than the tax man or a knife-wielding stranger. Things that a gun won’t stop. As long as their lives hang in the balance, what’s a little humiliation for me? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Gun, Men, Knives

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• After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Dad, Two

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Mean, Adjectives

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• I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I’m grateful for it.

  Po Bronson

  Book, Grateful, Thinking

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• What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog

  James Patterson

  Teaching, Thug, Goons

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• Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Years, Tree, Six Year Olds

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• Sweet weeping baby Jesus he has a six-pack to beat all six-packs!

  P. C. Cast

  Baby, Sweet, Jesus

  P. C. Cast (2008). “Warrior Rising”, p.112, Penguin

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• The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly that he wants to be anointed as defender of all faiths—another indication of the amazing conceit he has developed in six decades of performing the only job allowed him by the hereditary principle: that of waiting for his mother to expire.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mother, Atheist, Kings

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles.

  Holly Black

  Mother, Dog, Cutting

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that drain the national grid. We also like truck-stop breakfasts, large moving objects, Monday night football, and the missionary position. We don't drink light beer, drive Smart cars, or admit to knowing the names of more than about five or six colors. And we don't wax our chests, ever.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Football, Monday, Smart

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Smooth Talking Stranger: Number 3 in series”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Memories, Grief, Book

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• Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Brother, Father, Talking

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters. And that's beginning to happen. More than six decades of hard work for American liberty beginning with the Old Right opposition to the Roosevelt Revolution and continuing with the Mises Institute, is beginning to bear fruit.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Hard Work, Law, Forever

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