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• It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

  Booker T. Washington

  Exercise, Law, Important

  Booker T. Washington (2014). “An Autobiography - The Story of My Life and Work”, p.77, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

  Terry Pratchett

  Two, People, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Fifth Elephant: (Discworld Novel 24)”, p.123, Random House

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• In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.

  Stephen King

  Two, Voice, Criticism

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• Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.

  Sarah Dessen

  Surprise, Surprise Attacks

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.20, Penguin

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• Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our tendencies to engage in particular control dramas, even how we might work through these dramas with these parents and go on to be prepared for what we want to accomplish.

  James Redfield

  Drama, Reflection, Parent

  James Redfield (2013). “The Tenth Insight”, p.80, Random House

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• You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Exercise, Needs, Way

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• Be prepared. *smacks chest*

  John Bytheway

  Be Prepared, Smack, Chests

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• As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.

  Arundhati Roy

  Two, Jam, Be Prepared

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• A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself

  Maya Angelou

  Women, Rivers, Spirit

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• Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Song, Stars, Memories

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• A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.

  Gregory Maguire

  Mind, Males, Female

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• The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Made, Concrete

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Remembering”, p.96, Counterpoint Press

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• Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265

  Monica Ali

  Waiting, Everyday, Looks

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• In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Long, Everyday, Usual

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• There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  People, Treats

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2013). “Prep and American Wife: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.271, Random House

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• This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

  Anthony Trollope

  Reading, Support You, Long

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• I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Want, Virtue

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.72, Hamilton Books

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• He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational Life, Preparation, Moments

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• We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Crazy, Order, Years

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• I've always admired people who are over-prepared.

  Randy Pausch

  People

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Joyce Carol Oates (1974). “Where are You Going, where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America”, Greenwich, Conn. : Fawcett Publications

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• Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.

  Gregory Maguire

  Knitting, Hands, Two

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• Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark. There was no visible ram in the thicket when Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. Two heavenly personages were not yet seen when Joseph knelt and prayed. First came the test of faith–and then the miracle. Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. Cast out doubt. Cultivate faith.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Rain, Son, Sacrifice

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• A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

  Jim Butcher

  Behinds, Technicalities

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.80, Penguin Group

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• But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Eye, Men

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