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• Take some very deep breaths," Miranda said. "Relax. Concentrate. Then envision a frosty six-pack and wiggle your pinky." A frosty six-pack. Kylie inhaled. He held out her pinky, and right then Della chimed in. "We are talking a six=pack of soda, not a cold guy with good-looking abs, right?" There was a strange kind of sizzle in the air. And suddenly appearing in front of the refrigerator was a shirtless, shivering guy with great abs. His blue eyes studied the three of them in complete bafflement. "What the...!" he muttered. Kylie gasped. Miranda giggled. Della snorted with laughter.

  C.C. Hunter

  Laughter, Eye, Air

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• Sam picked up his pack, but before he could put it on, Mogget leaped onto it and slid under the top flap. All that could be seen of him were his green eyes and one white-furred ear. "Remember I advised against this way," he instructed. "Wake me when whatever terrible thing is a about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet.

  Garth Nix

  Eye, White, Ears

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• I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack." He pulled away. "What if being packmates isn't enough for me?

  Kathy Reichs

  What If, Enough, Ifs

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• Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

  Jaron Lanier

  Design, Behaviour, Way

  "My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• Most of the pack would rather have Darryl mad at them than Auriele.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mad

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.1401, Penguin

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• Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Long, Comfort

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.134, Penguin

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• What would you pack for Armageddon? Sunscreen and shades? Flame-proof underwear? Maybe a travel guide to the Underworld?

  Jana Oliver

  Flames, Underwear, Shade

  Jana Oliver (2012). “Forgiven”, p.282, Macmillan

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• At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.

  Taylor Lautner

  Two, One Day, Meals

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He marveled at the gullibility and vulnerability of his fellow humans. No wonder the churches called them sheep. They were woolly-headed pack animals being herded around for the benefit of whoever knew how to control the dogs.

  Craig Ferguson

  Dog, Animal, Sheep

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• Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.

  Hilary Mantel

  Book, Writing, People

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• Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.

  Patricia Briggs

  Talking, Lists, Public Speaking

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.124, Penguin

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• A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.

  Haniel Long

  Gang Members, Desire, Energy

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• I didn’t realize I was frozen in place until a classmate shouldered into me, knocking my heavy backpack from my shoulder. “’Scuse me,” he grumbled, his tone more Get out of the way than Sorry I ran into you. As I bent to retrieve my backpack, praying Kennedy and his fangirl hadn’t seen me, a hand grasped the strap and swung the pack up from the floor. I straightened and looked into clear gray-blue eyes. “Chivalry isn’t really dead, you know.

  Tammara Webber

  Sorry, Eye, Blue

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• I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.

  Alfonsina Storni

  Tired, Mountain, Growing

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• It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

  Joseph Addison

  Passing Away, Together, Cards

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.315

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• Trade him for a six pack; it doesn't even have to be cold.

  Buddy Ryan

  Nfl, Six Packs, Cold

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• You can pack a bag and take a plane somewhere, anywhere, and when you get there and open the bag - lying right on top will be whatever you're running away from. The very first thing you'll have to unpack.

  Mary McMullen

  Running, Travel, Lying

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• Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.

  Roy Andries De Groot

  Food, Dine In, Perfect

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• whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I'd need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity.

  Merrill Markoe

  Fashion, Eight, Might

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• Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!

  Dervla Murphy

  Brotherly Love, Gang, Shia

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.70, The Overlook Press

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• In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.

  Deborah Tannen

  Criticism, Gone, Ongoing

  Deborah Tannen (1986). “That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others”, William Morrow & Co

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• I've never competed in powerlifting. But my goals weren't to be a powerlifter. My goals were to pack on size and get big, big, big.

  Kai Greene

  Goal, Size, Bigs

  Source: awesome-body.info

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• Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Parent, Underwear, Jam

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.98, Vintage

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• Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

  George Eliot

  Horse, Doors, Sunny Afternoon

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.431

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• Indie record stores are as important to a touring musician as an incredible thrift store. I can't overstate how good it feels to place an original pressing of 'veedon fleece' in your most underused of shirts and pack it into your suitcase, anxiously awaiting the day you get home so that you can play it as though it was your reward or trophy from the long journey you had just finished embarking on.

  Nate Ruess

  Home, Journey, Play

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