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• Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Thinking, Fiction Novels, Years

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• Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Giving, Shame

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• He who has far to ride spares his horse.

  Jean Racine

  Horse, Prudence

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• When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

  Edward Carpenter

  Father, Philosophy, Long

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• I started writing stories in my spare time.

  Ken Follett

  Writing, Stories, Spare Time

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• Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

  Billy Bragg

  Poetry, Guilt, Answers

  Song: I Don't Need This Pressure Ron

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• The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Humanity, Destruction

  "Rights expert urges the UN General Assembly to adopt a more decisive role in peace-making (For International Day of Peace, Saturday 21 September 2013)". dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 21, 2013.

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• There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
  His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
  Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
  And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  God, Humble, Hands

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• Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Taken, Party, Giving

  Naomi Mitchison (1990). “A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems”

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• If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.

  Walter Raleigh

  Art, Giving, Swim

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.565

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• Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It's not so much interacting with my fans - it's about doing something with what I have. I have my camera and I have my computer, and if I have some spare time, rather than watching some mindless bullshit pop-idol program on TV, why not show people my pictures and try and discuss things that I feel are important?

  Lily Allen

  Idols, People, Bullshit

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better it is, the less we have to worry about its interpretation, about what it really means.

  Peter Medawar

  Mean, Thinking, Worry

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• We found in the course of our journey the convenience of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for it is not to be imagined without experience, how in climbing crags and treading bogs, and winding through narrow and obstructed passages, a little bulk will hinder, and a little weight will burden; or how often a man that has pleased himself at home with his own resolution, will, in the hour of darkness and fatigue, be content to leave behind him everything but himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Journey, Men

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.24, Canongate Books

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• During episodes of unemployment I find it rewarding to sleep as much as possible-anything from twelve to fourteen hours a day is a good starting point. Sleep spares you humiliation and saves money at the same time: nothing to eat, nothing to buy, just lie back and dream your life away.

  David Sedaris

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Home, Thinking, Support

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.177, Courier Corporation

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• Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.

  Roger Angell

  Baseball, Hands, Games

  Roger Angell (2013). “Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.

  Saint Augustine

  Cry, Silent, Ifs

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• The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

  Confucius

  Art, Kindness, Home

  Confucius (2014). “THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

  Ariel Pink

  Art, Stupid, Rocks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.

  David Rawlings

  Guitar, Moments

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doors, Feet, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.49, Graphic Arts Books

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• Spare me the mantra that the “fundamentals” are sound. Credit is the ultimate fundamental.

  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

  Sound, Credit, Fundamentals

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• There's not a drop of hero's blood in my whole body, so spare me the praise. I'm just an ordinary guy, and proud of it. I'm here because I put in the time. I have the blisters on my fingers to prove it. It had nothing to do with coincidence, luck, or the activation of my Wonder Twin powers. I reset the game hundreds of times until my special attack finally went off perfectly. Victory was inevitable. So please, hold off on all the hero talk.

  Hiroshi Sakurazaka

  Hero, Blood, Games

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

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• It wasn't just that my breasts were sore and my legs seethed with restlessness at night. A knitted cap seemed to have settled on my brain as well. Never think that pregnancy is just a spare room in a woman's house; it changes everything - the heat, the light, the furniture.

  Marni Jackson

  Pregnancy, Night, Thinking

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• We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Home, Dark

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