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• I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

  Samantha Bond

  Children, Careers, Two

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• The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.

  Samantha Bond

  Bed, Watches, Television

  "Samantha Bond: why so few middle-aged women on TV?" by Anita Singh, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 23, 2012.

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• If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

  Samantha Bond

  Pops, Sensational, Realising

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• I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?

  Linn Ullmann

  Song, Father, Writing

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• The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.

  Stephen Kinzer

  Powerful, Tyrants, Oil

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• I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Teacher, Children, Class

  "Selma’s Lorraine Toussaint on Motherhood, a Childhood of ‘Silent, Dark Terror’ and Award Season Buzz". Interview with Caroline Presno, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2014.

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• Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language.

  Luke Harding

  Military, Writing, School

  "War is raging in Aleppo but in a classroom 40km away, there are grounds for hope" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2012.

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• The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.

  Anand Neelakantan

  Class, Long, Care

  Anand Neelakantan (2012). “ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished”, p.73, LEADSTART PUBLISHING PVT LTD

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• Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they're programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.

  Ann Leckie

  Regret, Mean, Night

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• A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at least 100,000 years ago, much before the disappearance of the Neandertals. Moreover, in caves in the Middle East, fossils of modern humans have been found dated 120,000-100,000 years ago, as well as Neandertals dated at 60,000 and 70,000 years ago, followed again by modern humans dated at 40,000 years ago. It is unclear whether the two forms repeatedly replaced one another by migration from other regions, or whether they coexisted in some areas

  Francisco J. Ayala

  Years, Two, Middle East

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• I like crying. And now I not only wanna cry and show my crying to other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!

  Woody Harrelson

  People, Splits, Cry

  "Woody and Bush" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2003.

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• First name: Mister; middle name: period; last name T.

  Mr. T

  Names, Lasts, Firsts

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• Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

  Terry Pratchett

  Names, Luck, Mind

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “Interesting Times: Adapted for the Stage by Stephen Briggs”, p.23, A&C Black

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• A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Ocean, Islands

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• The house made of ice in the middle of a desert! And that house is the house of lies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lying, Ice, House

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• A man with a warm heart is no different than a warm house in the middle of a bitter winter!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Heart, Winter, Men

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• Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dog, Revolution, Bigs

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• Great ideas behave like the Sun. Even in the middle of nowhere, they find people and shine on them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Shine On, Ideas, People

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• Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self. ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Real, Heart

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• Science is actually, I think, a very creative venture. It requires thinking outside of the box. It requires an ability to be open to new experiences and an ability to change course in the middle, try a different path, or go about things in a new way.

  Cara Santa Maria

  Thinking, New Experiences, Creative

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. I’m uneasily somewhere in the middle.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Anxiety, India, Selling

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Islamic, Age, Elements

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

  Peter Beinart

  Memories, Struggle, Rights

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class.

  Tavis Smiley

  Struggle, Average, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

  Tavis Smiley

  Dad, Struggle, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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