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• Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?

  Judy Blundell

  Mean, People, Needs

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• I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, Player, Dope

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Records, Feels Right, Right Now

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes. We are going to die." "Yes, but apart from that." "Apart from that?!" "It means we must be on to something!" "How soon can we get off it?

  Douglas Adams

  Mean, Trying, Hey

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• From Ronan's room, he heard Noah's laugh. He and Ronan were throwing various objects from the second-story window to the parking low below. There was a terrific crash. Ronan's voice rose, exasperated. "Not that one, Noah.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Voice, Laughing, Rose

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• Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes.

  Raymond Carver

  Morning, Mistake, Lying

  Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.135, Vintage

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• The Web is functionally fantastic, but it's a tool. A terrific place to present information but not, at this stage, a tenably emotional location.

  Kevin Roberts

  Business, Emotional, Tools

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• Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Graduation, Dirty

  "Top 10 Commencement Speeches". Conan O'Brien's Commencement Speech at Harvard University, Сambridge, Massachusetts, on Class Day, content.time.com. 2000.

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• The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Character, Religion

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• The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jan 13, 2014

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• In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

  James Agee

  Life, Peace, Children

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Silence, Answers

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.47, Discovery House

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• How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

  Wallace Stevens

  Literature, Spirit, Humans

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.249, Vintage

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• It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Grandpa, Goofy, Happens

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• I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.

  Joanne Woodward

  Depressing, Block, School

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• It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn't struggle is the one who doesn't grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign - celebrate your struggle.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Real, Struggle

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jul 25, 2014

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• The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

  Anna Quindlen

  Family, Mom, Daughter

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.113, Ballantine Books

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• Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

  Neil Simon

  Funny, Sarcastic, Party

  Neil Simon (1979). “The collected plays of Neil Simon”, Plume Books

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• Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Vision, Noses

  Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Making A Difference, Charity

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• Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people.

  George Carlin

  Lying, People, Judging

  "George Carlin: What Am I Doing in New Jersey?". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 12, 1988.

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• I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Hurt, Sorry

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

  Jim Hightower

  Effort, Campaigns, Levels

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• I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

  James Patterson

  Book, Thinking, Able

  "Surviving Summer Camp In James Patterson's 'Middle School'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 22, 2013.

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• A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.

  James Patterson

  Falling In Love, Writing, People

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