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• For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.

  Elayne Boosler

  Mean, Men, Milk

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• The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Home, Writing, Suicidal

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Living Novel”, p.115, A&C Black

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• I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Preparing For Death

  FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Aug 24, 2011

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• All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war.

  George Carlin

  War, Patriarchal Society, Recovering

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• In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself.

  Joe Bastianich

  Mean, Expression, Care

  "MasterChef : What’s Cooking in America’s Kitchens" by Joe Bastianich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.

  Joshua

  Men, Order, Enemy

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• We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life. ... We are all children of a Heavenly Father who has sent us to earth with the invitation to prepare for eternal life. Every choice, every experience, every repentance and reformation prepares us for what is to come.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Father, Choices

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• With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

  Dwight Schultz

  Science, Thinking, Fiction

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• Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Art, Desert, November

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• Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Past, Play

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• The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

  Will Durant

  Summer, Dog, Art

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

  Dominic Chianese

  Uncles, People, Criminals

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• PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Smell, Noses

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.180, University of Georgia Press

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• I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my loved-one!

  Omar Khayyam

  Blessed, Wine, Sadness

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• I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.

  Lesley Gore

  Song, Morning, Writing

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• I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

  Helmut Newton

  Notebook, Writing, Thinking

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• I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Believe, Army, Navy

  Ulysses Simpson Grant, John Y. Simon, Aaron M. Lisec (2000). “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: 1873”, p.62, SIU Press

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• There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human environment (which includes the moral imperative of a culturally affirmed and legally recognized right to life from conception until natural death). So what happens? A low-ranking Vatican official for self-promotion gives an interview to the Guardian in which he claims that this is a global-warming encyclical - which he couldn't possibly have known, as the document wasn't drafted yet.

  George Weigel

  Self, Giving, Interviews

  Source: eppc.org

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• Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

  Edwin Newman

  President, Vices, Triumph

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• Because of Christ, even our catastrophes have purpose. God is preparing our character for the time when we will see Him face to face.

  Kenneth Boa

  Christian, Jesus, Character

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• Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Music Is, Propositions, Expensive

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• Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor.

  Newt Gingrich

  Running, Office, President

  Newt Gingrich at GOP Primary debate at Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2012.

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• People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind is destruction.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Buddhism, Blow

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• In these early games you're focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There's not a lot you can do in terms of preparing and in terms of scouting.

  Dom Starsia

  Games, Coming Out, Term

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• The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.

  Chaske Spencer

  Lifting Weights, Acting, Body

  "New Moon Werewolf Chaske Spencer Visits Seventeen!!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 3, 2009.

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