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• ...all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they'd never be able to do it but it's a great idea and would wake people up in this country.

  Brad Thor

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

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• If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.

  Nikolas Schreck

  Hands, Left Hand, Path

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• The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.

  Douglas Adams

  Integrity, Impossible, Respecting Others

  Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

  Hayley Williams

  Struggle, Taken, Special

  "Paramore hard at work on fourth album" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. April 19, 2012.

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• It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

  Rachel Vincent

  Self, Addiction, Destructive

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Stray”, p.305, MIRA

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• It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

  Emily Giffin

  Kindness, Empathy, Missing

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• No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.

  Veronica Roth

  Insecurity, Selfishness, Doe

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• To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death.

  Rob Bell

  Quality, Vitality, Connections

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• We’re days away from going full scale against Malone, and in the meantime, we’re under fire from above. And I’m about as useful as a three-legged dog.” “You’re much more useful than any kind of dog, mi vida.” Marc purred and pressed me into the counter, his hands on my hips. I couldn’t resist a smile. I was a real sucker for Spanish.

  Rachel Vincent

  Dog, Real, Fire

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• Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.

  Joss Whedon

  Logic, Misogyny, Behinds

  "Joss Whedon Performs at Women's Rights Event, Decries Sexism, Praises 'Hunger Games'" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

  John Green

  Falling In Love, Believe, Healthy

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.123, Penguin

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• The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Shy, Want, Be Kind

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• I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

  Deb Caletti

  Flying, Trying, Desperation

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• The way I see it, truth only looks good when you're looking at it from far away. It's kind of like that beautiful girl you see on the street when you're riding past in the bus... there she is, this amazing girl walking by on the street, and you think if you could only get off this stupid bus and introduce yourself to her, your life would change. The thing is, she's not as perfect as you think, and if you ever got off the bus to introduce yourself, you'd find out... This girl is truth. She's not so pretty, not so nice. But then, once you get to know her, all that stuff doesn't seem to matter.

  Neal Shusterman

  Beautiful, Girl, Nice

  Neal Shusterman’s 2005 BGHB Fiction Award Speech, www.hbook.com. January 5, 2006.

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• When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.

  Mindy Kaling

  Nice, Smart, Thinking

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• And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Stars, Distance, Unity

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, People, Perception

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.157, Penguin

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• I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one.

  Susanna Clarke

  People, Brain, Noise

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.599, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Love doesn't last." She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. "Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind.

  Francine Rivers

  Doe, Lasts, Faces

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• Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster’s mind.

  Jim Butcher

  Imagination, Magic, Mind

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.94, Penguin

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• I kind of wish they’d shut up,” Jack said. “Dude, true dat,” Lend answered. Jack nodded solemnly. “For serious.

  Kiersten White

  Wish, Serious, Shut Up

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• All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

  Paula McLain

  Games, Waiting, Terrible

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.317, Ballantine Books

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• Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot." Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters." Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.

  John Green

  Mom, Teenager, Fake

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.214, Penguin

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• It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.

  Sarah Dessen

  Tattoo, Girlfriend, Smart

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.28, Penguin

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• So...I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than ... I don't know,more than they should. And I get totally sucked in by this ridiculous, tiny fur coat. The kind of coat a baby might need to go to the ballet. In Moscow. In 1918. To match her tiny pearls.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Baby, Sweaters, Ballet

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.64, Hachette UK

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