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• We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state

  Jennifer Granholm

  Citizens, Steps, States

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• If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Believe, Thinking

  "Cheney: Saddam Wants Nuclear Weapons", www.foxnews.com. September 9, 2002.

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• The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie sticks with the under-four-foot set. I cursed parents for not preparing their children. When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the Easter Bunny didn't exist, Elijah was God's invisible friend, with any luck Nana would die soon, and if I ever saw a unicorn, I should kill it or catch it for cash. I turned out okay.

  Sloane Crosley

  Mother, Easter, Children

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.106, Portobello Books

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• While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.

  Plutarch

  Kings, Army, Greek

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• Contrary to popular opinion, my dad was not a lazy man. He was not lazy at all, for instance, when it came to Going Places In His Truck. He was also very industrious about Preparing To Go Camping. And if something really interested him, he would work on it all day.

  Haven Kimmel

  Dad, Men, Lazy Man

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.163, Broadway Books

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• We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

  Freeman Dyson

  Education, Years, Best Year

  "The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics". Book edited by Timothy Ferris and Clifton Fadiman, 1991.

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• I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home.

  Thomas Merton

  Home, Sea, Track

  Thomas Merton (1974). “A Thomas Merton Reader”, Image

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• Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Men, Thinking

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• It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

  Robin McKinley

  Fate, Littles, Odd

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• Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air, Preparing on his spell-bound prey to dart: Chase him away, sweet Hope, with visage bright, And fright him as the morning frightens night!

  John Keats

  Sweet, Morning, Disappointment

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.6, Рипол Классик

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• The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Night, Light

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.1, Spectra

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• We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

  Jean Vanier

  Humanity, Important, Finals

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.152, Paulist Press

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• Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

  Harvey Mackay

  Friday, Monday, Morning

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.

  Dean Koontz

  Wind, Tree, Lions

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.56, Bantam

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• My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

  Naveen Jain

  Believe, Hard Work, Opportunity

  "Tips for Entrepreneurial Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2011.

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• There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.

  Rashida Jones

  Character, People, Focus

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• It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Humanity

  Speech of at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 06, 1960.

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• Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Kids, Three, Becoming

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• I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.

  Elle Macpherson

  Reading, Roles, Actors

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• Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

  Mike Murdock

  Work, Failure, Preparation

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• What I tell my kids is, I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen time rules.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, College, Knowing

  "Michelle Obama on the Move". Interview with Maggie Murphy, Lynn Sherr, communitytable.parade.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

  Tennessee Williams

  Death, Time, Dying

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Eye, Imagination, Preparation

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• There are hardly any apprenticeships in care; hardly any schools preparing teenagers for jobs in care; and few signs that politicians know what to do to raise the status and rewards for what will soon be one of our most important industries.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Jobs, Teenager, School

  "The UK economy can still create jobs" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2012.

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• A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner. "Mom,guess what ?" she squealed waving the drawing . her mother never looked up. "what"? she said ,tending to the pots. "guess what?" the child repeated ,waving the drawings. "what?" the mother said , tending to the plates. "Mom, you're not listening" "sweetie,yes I am" "Mom" the child said "you're not listening with your EYES

  Mitch Albom

  Girl, Mom, Mother

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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