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• The Brotherhood was strong, a unit. a powerful force in their world for good. And so too were the females. Strong. A unit. A powerful force for good in their world.

  J.R. Ward

  Strong, Powerful, Brotherhood

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• You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Perfect, Together, Titles

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Nobody's that naive," she muttered. "Nobody's that guileless." "He's from Nebraska." Peabody scanned her pocket unit. "From where?" "Nebraska." Peabody waived a hand, vaguely west.... "They still grow them pretty guileless in Nebraska. I think it's all that soy and corn.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Hands, Pockets

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• The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

  Terry Pratchett

  New York, Light, Green

  "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 282), October 2008.

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• Does this have anything to do with the unit we’re studying? Because I can’t find anything about desired characteristics of a mate anywhere in our text.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Doe, Study, Because I Can

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getting to their destination, and it changed its fickle little mind and began calmly telling him which way to proceed as if this had been its idea all along.

  Neal Stephenson

  Gps, Ideas, Two

  Neal Stephenson (2011). “Reamde”, p.179, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• [...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

  Robert Musil

  Numbers, Add, Brilliant

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• The goal of the corps of NCOs, whose duty is the day-to-day business of running the Army so that the officer corps has time to command it, is to continue to improve our Army at every turn. We want to leave it better than we found it. Regardless of the kind of unit you're in, it ought to be an "elite" outfit, because its NCOs can make it one.

  William G. Bainbridge

  Running, Army, Ncos

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• Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Jobs, Hate, Mean

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• Where is your unit?" Murphy asked. I wiggled my eyebrows at her. "Right where it's always been, dollface.

  Jim Butcher

  Eyebrows, Murphy

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• In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Lying, Faces, Introduction

  Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

  Dan Simmons

  Grease, Meat, Foam

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.254, Spectra

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• Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  School, Numbers, Wrong Number

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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• We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Winning, Awards, Ideas

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• Where are the dogs?" I asked. "At training," he said. "I have a friend who's an expert dog trainer, and he's giving them some stealth lessons. He used to work for a local K-9 unit." I didn't think it was in the Chihuahua genetic code to ever be stealthy.

  Richelle Mead

  Dog, Thinking, Giving

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.209, Penguin

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• I made lasagna for dinner," Tamsyn called out. "That work for you?" He continued to look at her, as if he'd drink her up with his eyes. "Anything is fine." "Maybe I shouldn't waste my lasagna on you, then." Tamsyn grabbed a container from the cooling unit. "How about some cardboard instead?" Brenna found herself amused in spite of the blood that continued to scent the air and the taut expectation that stretched between her and Judd. Lips twitching, she waited for his response. "Cardboard has no nutritional value." Utterly toneless. "Lasagna would be a better choice.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Air, Blood

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.852, Penguin

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• When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.

  Thomas Harris

  Eye, Watches, Movement

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.434, Penguin

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• The power, it seduced, whispering to me to weave it into my own cells." A glance over his shoulder. "Before you, I would've no doubt accepted it and it would've destroyed me from the inside out." "Before you," she whispered, "I was shut up inside my heart, protecting it from harm, and never knowing the glory I missed." She linked her hand in his. "You and I, we're a unit. I dare any evil on this earth to tear us apart.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Knowing, Cells

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• Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.

  Charles J. Givens

  Inspirational, Success, Effort

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• The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Family, Home, Government

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• The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Family, Women, Play

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• Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

  Michael Novak

  Marriage, Health Education, Welfare

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• The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

  Charlie Hunter

  Music, Trios, Sound

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• The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Society, Groups, Fundamentals

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.

  Pele

  Teamwork, Football, Games

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