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• The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Goodbye, Morning, Journey

  The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy Address, delivered 28 January 1986

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• I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.

  Jodi Picoult

  Atrocities, Done, Nightmare

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

  Stephen King

  Optimistic, Long, Optimism

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Grateful, Thinking, Practice

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• Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way...We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Our World, Knowing, Decision

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005.

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• Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Success, Personal Growth

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.220, Modern Library

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• I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Love, Long Distance Relationship, Missing

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• The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

  John Marshall

  Men, Law, Doe

  John Marshall, Joseph Potter Cotton (2000). “The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall”, p.142, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Race, Ideas

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• At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail of lime ready prepared at five in the afternoon. The rest was death, and death alone

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Boys, White, Afternoon

  Federico García Lorca, “Lament For Ignacio Sánchez Mejías”

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• I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Belief, Be Prepared, Agree

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.

  Anita Shreve

  Rooms, Tiny, Hello

  Anita Shreve (1989). “Eden Close: a novel”, Harcourt

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• Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.

  Christopher Moore

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.229, Hachette UK

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• Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a few minutes. Silverware turned black in a few days. A compost heap decayed in a season. A child grew up in a decade. None of these everyday human experiences prepared people to be able to imagine the meaning of eighty million years - the length of time that had passed since this little animal had died.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Animal, Years

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

  David Sedaris

  Views, Names, Firsts

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.

  Iain Banks

  Simple, Expression, Facts

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• Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.222, Ravenio Books

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• ... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teaching, Agreement, Mind

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't really know either of us," Cam said, standing and stepping away, "but you're prepared to choose right now, huh?

  Lauren Kate

  Said, Fallen, Standing

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.245, Delacorte Press

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• One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Transformation, Wave, Eat Love Pray

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Mean, Mind

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• Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it

  Libba Bray

  Legs, Ifs

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• Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

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• Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

  John Green

  Boys, Alaska, Cooking

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.73, Penguin

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• I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin, and I could have said to him, "This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me to never give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe!

  Garth Stein

  Giving Up, Believe, Darkness

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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