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• A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire.
  [Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beauty, Air, Looks

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• I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Acceptance, Self

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• (A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Army, Use, Weapons

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• No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration." I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever.

  Kevin Hearne

  Two, Worry, Bonus

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.911, Del Rey

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• But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Lying, True Evil, Two

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• It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
  [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage
  D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]

  Philippe Quinault

  Wise, Wisdom, Sage

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• Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Views, Play, Careers

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• Achievement is talent plus preparation

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Achievement, Preparation

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• My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Writing, Math, Two

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• ...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them.

  Michael Pollan

  Country, Years, Three

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.11, Penguin

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• Failure plus failure plus failure equals success. You only fail when you quit.

  Jack Hyles

  Inspirational, Quitting, Failing

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• Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Inspirational, Skills, Thousand

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• Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

  Upton Sinclair

  Tyrants, Murder, Fascism

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “Presidential Agent”, p.373, Open Road Media

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• A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy.

  Demetri Martin

  People, Giving, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

  Hugh Laurie

  Running, Lying, Eight

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Jan 04, 2016

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• I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Stress, Believe, Actors

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• One of the many advantages of having a boyfriend who is half French is that his culinary repertoire extends beyond mac and cheese. Plus, there’s the kissing.

  Meg Cabot

  Kissing, Half, Cheese

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• Life is about doing the things that make you happy, not the things that please other people. If you can please other people, that's a plus, but as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're golden.

  Nicole Richie

  Hurt, Long, People

  Nicole Richie (2010). “Priceless: A Novel”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Jobs, Business, Writing

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• The shortest follies are the best.
  [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

  Pierre Charron

  Folly

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• Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

  Shirley Conran

  Home, Law, House

  Shirley Conran (1978). “Superwoman”, Outlet

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• Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations over a void.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Intellectual, Three, Void

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• Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

  Edward Albert

  Prayer, Understanding

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Years, Careers

  FaceBook post by Lance Armstrong from May 19, 2011

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• This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

  Francis Schaeffer

  People, Chance, Modern

  Francis August Schaeffer (1976). “How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture”, Good News Pub

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