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• I don’t like keeping her in the dark,” Jace said. “We’ll tell her in a week. What difference does a week make?” Jace gave him a look. “Two weeks ago you were dead.” “Well, I wasn’t suggesting two weeks,” said Sebastian. “That would be insane.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Two, Differences

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1956, Simon and Schuster

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• So, as we have our tea, I propose not only to operate on your heart so as to change your will, but also on your eyes so as to change your outlook. But wait a minute. No, I do not propose to operate at all. I myself cannot do anything of the sort. I am just mildly suggesting that you are perhaps dead, and perhaps blind, leaving you to think the matter over for yourself. If an operation is to be performed it must be performed by God Himself.

  Cornelius Van Til

  Heart, Eye, Thinking

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• Forgive me, Your Grace. Are you suggesting a woman is some sort of … piece of fruit to you? One squeeze, and you know if she’s ripe?

  Tessa Dare

  Forgive Me, Grace, Forgiving

  Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.72, Ballantine Books

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• Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act.

  Michel Foucault

  Alarms, Done, Levels

  Michel Foucault (1980). “Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews”, p.5, Cornell University Press

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• I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

  C.D. Wright

  Lying, Doubt, Resolution

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.28, Copper Canyon Press

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• Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

  Maurice Strong

  Baby, Children, Years

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• There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Race, Fans

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• And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

  David Icke

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Magazines

  David Icke (1996). “--and the Truth Shall Set You Free”, Truth Seeker Company Incorporated

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• And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Sick, Guy

  "Newt Gingrich Says He Will Be Republican Presidential Nominee". Interview with Jake Tapper, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

  Angela Davis

  Prison, Social, Function

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• I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.

  Amy Chua

  Tolerance, Secret, Looks

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• I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

  Tony Campolo

  Country, Clever, Home

  "Making Matters Worse in Haiti" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2010.

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• I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Car, People

  Interview with Anne Pasternak, creativetime.org.

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• Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  God, Faith, Patience

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• We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.

  Dorianne Laux

  Writing, Thinking, Artist

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

  Alberto Manguel

  Library, Gaps, Growing

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• Tobias asked. "Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into dolphins . . . You're suggesting that's weird?

  Katherine Applegate

  Sharks, Talking, Whales

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• Are you suggesting I’m not normal? (Nykyrian) Oh yeah, baby, you ooze normality. From the top of that assassin’s braid to the tip of those boots that I’m pretty sure conceal retractable blades. You’re just an average joe. No doubt about it. Cause, you know, everyone sits for hours doing nothing but typing. (Kiara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Average Joe, Doubt

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Night: The League: Nemesis Rising”, p.162, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Grandchildren, Waiting, Approval

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books

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• Are you suggesting that the gods have trouble acting together, young lady?" Dionysus asked. Yes, Lord Dionysus." Mr. D nodded. "Just checking. You're right, of course. Carry on.

  Rick Riordan

  Acting, Together, Trouble

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my proconsul, Marcus. We could call him Marcus." Josiah Worthington said, "He looks more like my head gardener, Stebbins. Not that I'm suggesting Stebbins as a name. The man drank like a fish." "He looks like my nephew Harry," said Mother Slaughter... "He looks like nobody but himself," said Mrs.Owens, firmly. "He looks like nobody." "Then Nobody it is," said Silas. "Nobody Owens.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Children, Men

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• What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Happiness, Father, Positive Thinking

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• [P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

  Henry Adams

  Philosophy, Answers, Problem

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• Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

  Graham Chapman

  Coconuts, Migrate

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• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  "Copyright Case Against 'Da Vinci Code' Publisher Begins", www.foxnews.com. February 27, 2006.

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