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• There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sleep, Exercise, Thinking

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• Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Men, May, Evening

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Reading, Doors

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Blessing, Being Sad

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eyeing us side by side in the mirror. Sure is, Girlfriend." Eric grinned at me. "But are you blond all the way down?" Don't you wish you knew?" Yes," he said simply. Well, you'll just have to wonder." I am," he said. "Blond everywhere," I could tell as much from your chest hair." He raised my arm to check my armpit. "You silly women, shaving your body hair," He said, dropping my arm.

  Charlaine Harris

  Girlfriend, Silly, Mirrors

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Dead in Dixie”

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• I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Home, School, Parent

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• It has been a period where people have been far nicer to one another in every possible way. I'm not saying it's because we're dropping our empathy that we're nicer to each other, just that the drop doesn't seem to be causing any harm.

  Paul Bloom

  People, Empathy, Way

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.

  John Irving

  Water, Stopping, Coins

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• How easy it is to work for God when we are filled with His Spirit! His service is so sweet, so delightful; He is not a hard master. People talk about their being overworked and breaking down. It is not so. It is [over-worry] and care that wears people out.
  Why do so many workers break down? Not from overwork, but because there has been friction of the machinery; there hasn't been enough of the oil of the Spirit. Great engines have their machinery so arranged that where there is friction there is oil dropping on it all the time. It is a good thing for Christians to have plenty of oil.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Sweet, Oil

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• Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about it on both sides and people who thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever done and people who thought it was just an unpleasant job and people who thought they should have never done it at all, so there were opinions of all kinds.

  Freeman Dyson

  Strong, Jobs, Should Have

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My body is dropping so fast, my gynecologist wears a hard hat.

  Joan Rivers

  Body, Gynecologists, Hats

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• Having a kid made me realize, "I have to take care of this kid, but I can't have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I've got to work."

  A.C. Newman

  Kids, Luxury, Waking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• She thinks I’m a drug dealer. (Chris) ‘The most “illegal” thing the boy had ever done was to walk past a Salvation Army Santa Claus, once, without dropping money into the kettle.’ (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Army, Boys, Past

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.29, Macmillan

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• If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

  Maya Angelou

  Uncles, Kindness, Men

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• I knew you were a badass," continued Adrian. "But I didn't realize just how much until I saw you dropping guardians out there." "Does that mean you're going to be nicer to me?" I teased. "I'm already nice to you," he said loftily. "Do you know how badly I want a cigarette right now? But no. I manfully suffer through nicotine withdrawal—all for you.

  Richelle Mead

  Badass, Nice, Mean

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• Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

  Jandy Nelson

  Light, Sky, Rope

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.143, Penguin

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• I’m going to be exposed, aren’t I? (Acheron) I don’t know. You planning on dropping your pants around me? If so, warn me first. I don’t want to go blind. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Want, Pants, Firsts

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• My wife would say my worst habit is that I'm not good at dropping subjects. If something bothers me, I'll bring it up endlessly and relentlessly. I think it's a search for clarity, but she uses different words.

  Paul Reiser

  Thinking, Wife, Different

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• Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.

  John Lennon

  Horse, Sex, War

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

  Natasha Lyonne

  People, Life Is, Transient

  "Natasha Lyonne locked up". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it.

  Damir Dokic

  Bombs, Gains, Atomic Bomb

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• Because of rampant inflation, living standards have been dropping for the great majority of the population. The people are poorer because standards of health and education have fallen. And conditions in the rural areas are worse off than they have ever been. So, you cannot equate the so-called open-market economy adopted by the SLORC with any real development that benefits people.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Real, People, Population

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• True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Children, Air

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.392

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• Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her kiss was innocent, vulnerable, a caress so gentle that it made him her slave between one breath and the next.

  Nalini Singh

  Kissing, Hands, Rising Up

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.1824, Penguin

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• I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine... ninety-five... ninety-two... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Ninety Nine, Cake, Two

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