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• Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.

  Charlaine Harris

  Book, People, Information

  Charlaine Harris (2016). “Three Bedrooms, One Corpse”, p.15, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

  Libba Bray

  Gentleman, Felicity

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• Alone also means available for someone outstanding.

  Greg Behrendt

  Mean, Outstanding

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.85, Harmony

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• frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.

  Joyce Meyer

  Frustration, Grace, Misery

  Twitter post from Aug 11, 2012

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• ... every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on a gust of wind from another world? The guy looks unabashedly jack-o'-lantern happy, which couldn't be more foreign to the sullen demeanor most of us strove to perfect.

  Jandy Nelson

  School, Wind, Perfect

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.15, Penguin

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• I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Crazy, People, Insanity

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• We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Reality, Numbers, Reason

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• Would you like to assist me with my choice of underwear as well?” My sarcasm whistled right over his head. “I would be delighted. While I’d love to see you in a balconette bra, I’m afraid for this particular occasion I would have to go with a foam-lined seamless due to the tight fit of the garment across your breasts . . . Perhaps I could come over and review what you have available . . .

  Ilona Andrews

  Sarcasm, Choices, Foam

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• Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.

  Frank Lentricchia

  Communication, Black And White, Past

  Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.238, SUNY Press

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• Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?

  Anne Frank

  Crazy, War, Artist

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.147, Hamilton Books

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• But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.

  Michael Scott

  Law, Magic, Energy

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.87, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funny, Powerful, Mean

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Exercise, Reason, Specialists

  Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.180, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Iain's gaze went back and forth between Gillian and Brodick. "Father Laggan's back," he remarked. "And there's another, younger priest named Stevens with him." "Why are you telling me this?" Brodick asked. "I just wanted you to know there are two priests available," Iain explained with a meaningful glance at Gillian.

  Julie Garwood

  Meaningful, Father, Two

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Skulls, Museums

  Arthur Conan DOYLE (2009). “Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes”, p.310, Omnibus

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• I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Rain, Giving, Sun

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

  Alan Watts

  Language, Description, Hard

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.24, Souvenir Press

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• Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, Running, Dog

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• He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.

  David Nicholls

  Found

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• We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Exercise, Thinking

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• Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

  C. Wright Mills

  Inspirational, Freedom, Opportunity

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Interesting, Trying

  "Thief of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

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• Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These were implied nonetheless.

  Deborah Harkness

  Men, Darkness, Titles

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.527, Penguin

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• I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Regret, Fate, Tyrants

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.551, Macmillan

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• True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Firsts, True Happiness, Environment

  Sakyong Miphan Rinpoche (2004). “Turning the Mind Into an Ally”, p.15, Penguin

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