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• The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

  Joyce Brothers

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.

  Albert Brooks

  People, Laughing, Buried

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• So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Nice, Two

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• Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help.

  Elayne Boosler

  Reading, Sides, How You Feel

  "Yuo Cant Take Away My Gun Rites, Idiott" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.

  Bob Beauprez

  Good Day, Economy, Discussion

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• She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Mouths, Lasts

  Steve Martin (2004). “The pleasure of my company”

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• In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.

  Bob Barr

  Government, Generations, Done

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• Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.

  Thomas Frank

  Presidential, Desire, Needs

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Blessing, Boredom, Mind

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• Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

  Steven Pinker

  Giving, Psychology, Meaning Of Life

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• There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

  Trey Parker

  People, Facts, Tvs

  Interview with Jeff Onto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

  Marvin Olasky

  Courage, Real, Issues

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• Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Educational, Home

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• One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.

  Rachel Nichols

  Genre Is, Talking, Hot

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• It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

  Toni Morrison

  Intellectual, Paradise, Wells

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• I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

  Donella Meadows

  Trying, Procedures, Interest

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• The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Grace, Definitions

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• There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Children, Book

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• I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

  John Locke

  Men, Littles, Information

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• I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book.

  Heidi Klum

  Book, Writing, Months

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• It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Controversial Topics, Political

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• One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

  Mickey Kaus

  Writing, Thinking, Development

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• Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

  Francois Hollande

  Two Nations, Europe, Important

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• As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

  John Hodgman

  Sports, Knows

  "John Hodgman’s area of ignorance: 1 topic the self-proclaimed expert on everything knows nothing about". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. Nobember 10, 2009.

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• Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Talking, Years, Particular

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