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• Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other sheets with dexterity and aplomb." "Aplomb" "It's a polite way to say she banged often, well and without too much discrimination." "That also sounded polite." "I was raised well.

  Nora Roberts

  Brother, Tangled, Way

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.999, Penguin

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• A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's Pliny the younger, the famous Roman writer," Amy supplied. She bent down to read the English portion of the tablet. "Right. In A.D. 79, Pliny chronicled the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It's one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of a major disaster." Dan yawned. "Doesn't this remind you of the clue hunt? You know–you telling me a bunch of boring stuff, and me not listening?

  Gordon Korman

  Thinking, Names, Guy

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.123, Scholastic Inc.

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• …and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.

  David Nicholls

  Fall, Soul, Emma

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• Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

  Epictetus

  Life, Children, Hands

  "The Enchiridion". Book translated by Elizabeth Carter, 2006.

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• Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying work of art. Every individual, with thought, patience and a large portion of help from nature, has it in them to create their own private paradise: truly a thing of beauty and a joy for ever.

  Geoff Hamilton

  Beauty, Art, Creativity

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• By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Programming

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.264, Penguin

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• When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beauty, Drawing, Together

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

  Thomas Hood

  Race, Atheism, Taste

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.407

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• You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

  Robert Jordan

  Lying, Knowing, Always Wrong

  "Winter's Heart". Book by Robert Jordan, 2000.

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• I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

  Erik Larson

  Writing, Shapes, Helping

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• Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

  Auguste Rodin

  Taken, Body, Torso

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• Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst, part of your time. But whatever plan you pursue, let it be a rule of your life to visit the throne of grace and the Bible every day.

  J. C. Ryle

  Morning, Reading, Giving

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• Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

  J. C. Ryle

  Sacrifice, Guilty, Altars

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• For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

  David Ricardo

  Lasts, Return, Paid

  David Ricardo (1817). “On the Principles of political economy and taxation”, p.251, Library of Alexandria

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• If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.

  John Calvin

  Teaching, Men, Scripture

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Humble, Curiosity, Tiny

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of their people, upon the well-defined constitutional rights of the Southern citizens; the rapid growth and increase, in all the elements of power, of a purely sectional party.

  Isham G. Harris

  War, Party, Rights

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• Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.

  Frank Muir

  Food, Simple, Leaving

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• I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good—a positive good. . . . I hold then, that there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

  John C. Calhoun

  Color, Civilization, Two

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• Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the world for the redemption of the human race, the most appropriate time to consecrate a portion from abounding riches and scant poverty to send forth the good tidings of great joy into all the earth?

  Lottie Moon

  Memories, Race, Joy

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.224, Mercer University Press

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• I had an overwhelming experience of the Lord's presence. I felt so powerfully overcome by the nearness of the Holy Spirit that I had to ask the Lord to draw back lest He kill me. It was so glorious that I couldn't stand more than a small portion of it.

  Mordecai Ham

  Overcoming, Spirit, Lord

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• Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

  William Henry Harrison

  Civilization, Giving, Support

  "The History of Indiana, from Its Earliest Exploration by Europeans, to the Close of the Territorial Government, in 1816". Book by John Brown Dillon, www.esquire.com. 1859.

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  Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

  Sam Houston

  Blessed, Texas, Vision

  Sam Houston (1941). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1824-1854”

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• All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.

  David Harvey

  Monopoly Power, Owners, Certain

  David Harvey (2001). “Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography”, p.395, Routledge

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• In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Ignorance, Reality, Thinking

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