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• If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

  Ron Jeffries

  Interesting, Answers, Favourite

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• It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Talking, Unbearable

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.

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• I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.

  Bruce Sterling

  Fire, Organization, Worry

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  I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

  Abigail Adams

  Views, Numbers, Intelligence

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• Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sweet, Husband, Lying

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.109, Macmillan

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• We had an endless supply of topics, both of us eager to put forth all we knew on anything and everything. Most of the meal was spent discussing the intricacies of the organic certification process. It was pretty awesome.

  Richelle Mead

  Meals, Anything And Everything, Process

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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• Will’s eyes met Tessa’s as she came closer, almost tripping again over the torn hem of her gown. For a moment, they were in perfect understanding. Jem was what they could still look each other straight in the eye about. On the topic of Jem, they were both fierce and unyielding. Tessa saw Will’s hand tighten on Jem’s sleeve. “She’s here,” he said. Jem’s eyes opened slowly. Tessa fought to keep the look of shock from her face. His pupils were blown out, his irises a thin ring of silver around the black. “Ni shou shang le ma, quin ai de?” he whispered.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hands, Perfect

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• Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.

  Richelle Mead

  Objects, Wacky

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.83, Penguin

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• How can you stand touching her?” my sister blurted, staring at our clasped hands. “Doesn’t that hurt?” I seized on the change of topic. “These gloves are specialized rubber. They block the current.” Gretchen’s gaze traveled over Vlad, disbelief still stamped on her features. “Yeah, but how do you two do anything else, unless he has a special, currentrepelling glove for his—” “Gretchen!” my father cut her off. My cheeks felt hot. Don’t say a word, I thought to Vlad, seeing his chest tremble with suppressed laughter. “He has a natural immunity,” I gritted out.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hurt, Laughter, Father

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• If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Thinking, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.100, Jerome K. Jerome

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• There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…” Uncle Will frowned. “Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?” “No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis.” “I weep for the future.” “There’s where the martinis come in.

  Libba Bray

  Uncles, Book, School

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• I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn’t conversation. It’ll never lead anywhere. No one is going to say, “Wow, Mindy, you really have it especially bad. I have heard some stories of stress, but this just takes the cake.

  Mindy Kaling

  Stress, Thinking, Cake

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• There was a burst of laughter so sudden Miri jumped to her feet in alarm. Bena and Liana had pushed Peder out of the bed and onto the floor. He in turn leaped on Liana's bed, clinging to it and laughing as the girls tugged at his ankles. "So, are you two betrothed?" Katar asked. "No," Miri said shortly "Ohh." Karter smirked, one eyebrow raised, and she looked altogether more like her old self. "It appears I stumbled upon a topic of conversation even more dangerous than revolution.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Laughter, Self

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• Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

  Richelle Mead

  Technology, Class, Pie

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• If I'm educated and passionate about a topic, I'll answer the question. But I also know when to shut the hell up.

  Kevin Durant

  Passionate, Answers, Hell

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Attitude, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.392

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• To walk after the spirit a believer must inhibit his mind from revolving endlessly. If it turns too long around one topic, worries or grieves too much over matters, and ponders too intensively to know God's will, it may become unbearable and hamper its normal operation. The mind needs to be kept in a steady and secure state.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Grieving, Long

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.209, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.

  William James

  Running, Couple, Educational

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• As far as possible, you should pray in quiet and silent devotion. Try to have a favorite topic of prayer, such as a devotion to the passion of Jesus, the Blessed Sacrament, awareness of the divine presence; go directly to Jesus without too much fuss.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Prayer, Blessed

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• Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. "Not my favorite topic, Smedley." "Simon", said Simon. "If I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cat, Eye, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Lost Souls”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Church Service, Interesting, Challenges

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• His brothers could tease him about his height or the number of scars he was collecting on his body. He could take the joke when they said he would die having never won a fair wrestling match. But the topic of Bettin still smarted too much. He'd imagined being with her always. Now when he closed his eyes, he had trouble imagining anything else.

  Shannon Hale

  Brother, Wrestling, Eye

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.15, A&C Black

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• It is leashed. Now drop the subject or I’ll tell Sin you’ve seen me naked. (Kat) I will never bring this topic up again. Oh wait. What topic? I have Alzheimer’s. I know nothing at all. (Kish)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Alzheimer's, Waiting, Naked

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.283, Macmillan

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• Karabakh conflict has a strong influence on the political climate both in Azerbaijan and Armenia. It is obvious, too, that the Azerbaijani leadership can capitalize indefinitely on this topic to underpin its legitimacy even in a situation in which democratic institutions are virtually eliminated.

  Garry Kasparov

  Strong, Azerbaijan, Political

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Thinking, Safety, Special

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