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• During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

  Xi Jinping

  Beautiful, Home, Long

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• We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Success, Innovation

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• But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wicked, World, Next

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• Excellent." As soon as Bergman left earshot Vayl said, "I am going to buy you some pom-poms and a short pleated skirt-" Hey, if Bergman needs a cheerleard, that's what he's getting." Vayl tipped his head to one side and smiled wickedly. "I was just thinking perhaps I need a cheerleader as well." Cassandra got up. "If that's where this conversation is headed, I'm leaving." She wants some pom-poms too," I told Vayl. I do not!

  Jennifer Rardin

  Thinking, Leaving, Needs

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• If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater

  Yann Martel

  Believe, Love Is, Life Is Hard

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• I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger.

  Michelle Tea

  Running, Dream, Sweet

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• It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Looks, Habit, Symbols

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• But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Loss, Medical, Fit

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.40, Oxford University Press

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• Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.

  John Cage

  Sound, Heard

  John Cage, James Joyce (1982). “Roaratorio: ein irischer Circus über Finnegans wake”, Athenaum

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• And now I was trying to brush my hair,you know,when I thought about it,and looking at myself in mirrors,wondering if I was pretty.Pretty! A year ago,when my haair got in my eyes I hacked it off with a knife.The only thing important about my clothes was whether they were to stiff to move fast in battle. And Fang had been my best friend and an excellent fighter.

  James Patterson

  Moving, Eye, Mirrors

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• ...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Mean, Decision, Discussion

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• I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Four, Littles

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• I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character

  P. C. Cast

  Character, Cat, Gauges

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Did you like question ten, Moony?" asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall. "Loved it," said Lupin briskly. "Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question." "D'you think you managed to get all the signs?" said James in tones of mock concern. "Think I did," said Lupin seriously, as they joined the crowd thronging around the front doors eager to get out into the sunlit grounds. "One: He's sitting on my chair. Two: He's wearing my clothes. Three: His name's Remus Lupin.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Doors, Names

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• Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit—may the hair on his toes never fall out!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fall, Dwarves, Hair

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, People, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

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• They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.

  Paulo Coelho

  Order, Important, World

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• He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Ideas, Details, Way

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.117, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

  Anne Carson

  Mother, Hurt, Government

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• Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sure Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are waiting to celebrate with you, and it would be a shame to deprive them of this excellent excuse to make a great deal of mess and noise.

  J. K. Rowling

  Waiting, Bed, Would Be

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• Excellent. They were flammable.

  James Patterson

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• What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.

  John Cage

  Writing, Order, Play

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• Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.

  E. Lockhart

  Song, Rain, People

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 2: The Boy Book”, p.95, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

  Bram Stoker

  Grateful, Comforting, Euthanasia

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.329, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

  Robert Bolt

  Taste In Music, Music Is, My Own

  "Fictional character: King Henry VIII". "A Man for All Seasons", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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