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• There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.

  Cassandra Clare

  Character, Disease, Sides

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• Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up with someone in fewer than 140 characters.

  Julie James

  Heart, Character, Skills

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.39, Penguin

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• There is a direct line between the communications work I did to protest tuition increases at my school and what I do today. Plus it had one other benefit...it got me kicked out of college!

  Lewis Schiff

  Communication, School, College

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

  Monica Youn

  Thinking, Everyday, Use

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God.

  Joss Whedon

  Halloween, Names, Vampire

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fear Itself)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

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• On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Fire, Sight, Sides

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.304, Del Rey

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• He was the class clown, the court jester, because he'd learn early that if you cracked jokes and pretended you weren't scared, you usually didn't get beat up. Even the baddest gangster kids would tolerate you, keep you around for laughs. Plus, humor was a good way to hide the pain

  Rick Riordan

  Pain, Kids, Class

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• A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Food, Wine

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

  Bernard Malamud

  Happiness, Space, Feels

  Bernard Malamud (1961). “The New Life”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• There's 67 percent of women that are in this plus-size world that we live in. And that's over half of the women in the world. So why are we not dressing for [them]?

  Danielle Brooks

  Size, Half, World

  "Danielle Brooks, Gabourey Sidibe and More Dance in Lingerie to Prove 'This Body Is Beautiful'". Interview with Colleen Kratofil, people.com. October 04, 2016.

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• I wanted to show what it's really like for 98 percent of the world's population [in the third world]. Plus, I also see there are an awful lot of young people out there doing good things, and I wanted to give them a platform.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  People, Giving, Population

  Source: bookpage.com

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• The fact that I speak five languages is just a plus. I do not try to speak every language I know, in every movie. It must make sense. But, the fact that it's available gives a nice back-up.

  Richard Sammel

  Nice, Giving, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• This was good, except that now I had two crazed, burning zombies standing between me and the exit, plus another one that wasn’t on fire. I had not thought this plan through at all.

  Amanda Hocking

  Fire, Two, Zombie

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• Impossible. I merely brought the essentials. Clothes, my favorite boots, face cream, makeup, a few books to read, a couple cans of caviar, lingerie, and my coffeepot. Plus a few other things a girl like me just can’t live without but can’t mention in mixed company because it would be indelicate. You know, because they’re sexual.” - at “lingerie,” Hector and Dallas had stood a little straighter. At “sexual,” they’d moaned. Jaxon punched them both in the back of the head.

  Gena Showalter

  Girl, Couple, Book

  Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter, Sharie Kohler (2011). “Origins: First Books of Three Paranormal Bestsellers: Cole, Showalter, Kohler: A Hunger Like No Other, Awaken Me Darkly, Marked by Moonlight, with excerpts from their three latest novels!”, p.1416, Simon and Schuster

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• It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Years, Twenties, Program

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• Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion." "Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?" Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here." "How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious. "Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing." “How's that a duel?” "He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about." Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fashion, Rocks, Knives

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• You can't really explain to anyone the experience onset, you actually have to see it to understand what we're all going through. Some days we can be on set 15 - 17 hrs. Plus then there's training.

  Katie Cassidy

  Training

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

  Jeffrey Archer

  Kings, Energy, Talent

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• When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Ambition, Men

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• I think the "trick" is you have to really want to do it. You're embracing more of the world. Which is great. We're all in the world together, you know? And the models in the show who are "plus size," they're not in a special place, they're not wearing differently styled outfits. They're just beautiful girls who are in the show, like normal. Everything's normal. That's how it should be!

  Christian Siriano

  Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There are brands out there, plus-size brands, that all they want to do is sell their clothes and be done.

  Danielle Brooks

  Clothes, Size, Done

  "Danielle Brooks, Gabourey Sidibe and More Dance in Lingerie to Prove 'This Body Is Beautiful'". Interview with Colleen Kratofil, people.com. October 04, 2016.

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• Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

  Eckhart Tolle

  Unhappy, Stories, Emotion

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.107, Penguin

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• You plus nothing equals everything.

  LeCrae

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• The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.

  Jack Dorsey

  Technology, Interesting, Filters

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• Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

  Richie Hawtin

  Kids, Years, White

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