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• Consider the word “time.” We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with “time” as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.

  Mitch Albom

  Expression, Long, Mind

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.

  Rumi

  Names, Concealed, Known

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• I mean, think about [the phrase 'love the sinner, hate the sin.'] Isn't it like saying, 'I love left-handed people but hate that they're left-handed.' Is that really love? Or is that saying, 'I'm willing to love you as I'd like you to be, not as you are'? Either God's love is unconditional or it's not.

  Alex Sanchez

  Hate, Love You, Mean

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• You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling?

  Julia Quinn

  Clever, Thinking, My Smile

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• Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Wall, Doors

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that Howard must be as brimful of ecstasy as she was; but to express these feelings out loud, when the news of death was still fresh in the air, would have been tantamount to dancing naked and shrieking obscenities, and Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

  J. K. Rowling

  Air, Dancing, Feelings

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• The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Want, Entitlement, Complication

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.60, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.

  Francis Chan

  Children, Heart, Decision

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• Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.

  David Levithan

  Space, Giving, Doe

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.13, Egmont UK

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• You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

  Daniel Handler

  May, Said

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• I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach me to phrase my communication in terms of a human body. To say: let us hold hands instead of let us hold kitchens. To say put our heads together and not put our parlors together. But it is not as simple as replacing words anymore. Ravan is gone. My hearth is broken.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Communication, Simple, Thinking

  "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection". Book edited by Gardner Dozois, July 3, 2012.

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• Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

  Susan Cain

  Book, People, Guilt

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.7, Broadway Books

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• World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  World, Ugly, Domination

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• The phrase 'sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist' suddenly flew through my mind.

  David Wong

  Mind, Flew

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.29, Titan Books

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• If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase, "I can't" & all of its cousins, such as "I wish I were able to.

  Jack Canfield

  Cousin, Giving Up, Successful

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Jan 10, 2015

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• Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

  Caitlin Moran

  Mean, Knowing, People

  "How to be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, June 16, 2011.

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• See? You’re the crazy one, you redheaded freak. I’ve been attempting to translate the phrase into Latin. If I ever succeed, I shall make it my personal motto.

  Kirsten Miller

  Crazy, Latin, Succeed

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• Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Snuff, Guilty

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• Kaylee and Nash are like those rocks that ancient cave people used to make fire. Bang them together, and you get sparks." Sabine said. "Let's never again use the phrase 'bang them together' in reference to my brother and my girlfriend," Tod mumbled.

  Rachel Vincent

  Girlfriend, Brother, Fire

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• He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.

  Cassandra Clare

  Seductive, Fur, Littles

  Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Runaway Queen”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive sort, then you're more apt than the average person to feel pleasantly overwhelmed by Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" or a well-turned phrase or an act of extraordinary kindness. You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience.

  Susan Cain

  Strong, Kindness, Average

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds." Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Journey

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• It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

  Veronica Roth

  Blow, Strange, Feels

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• In the spirit of faith let us begin each day, and we shall be sure to " redeem the time " which it brings to us, by changing it into something definite and eternal. There is a deep meaning in this phrase of the apostle, to redeem time. We redeem time, and do not merely use it. We transform it into eternity by living it aright.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Time, Use, Each Day

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• There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Time, Past, Needs

  Address Before the Irish Parliament, delivered 28 June 1963, Dublin, Ireland

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