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• When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.

  David Sedaris

  Teacher, Loneliness, School

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

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• But don’t you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It’s hatred that puzzles me. I don’t comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hatred, Unusual, Pleasure

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.193, Macmillan

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• I had a weird, empty feeling inside me. Not a bad sort of empty. It was a sort of lack of sensation, like being in pain for a long time and then suddenly realizing that you're not anymore. It was the feeling of having risked everything to be here with a boy and then realizing that he was exactly what I wanted. Being a picture and then finding I was really a puzzle piece, once I found the piece that was supposed to fit beside me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Pain, Boys, Long

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• Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

  Richard Ford

  Angel, Gun

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?

  David Nicholls

  Fashion, Mean, Yale

  David Nicholls (2008). “Starter for Ten: A Novel”, p.69, Villard

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• It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

  Katherine Paterson

  Eye, Should Have, Missing

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• Editing is fun for me. That's where you make things happen. Filming a movie, I just try to set things up and see where it goes. Editing is a puzzle. I often don't even know what I'm trying to say. I'm just trying to make myself laugh. That's it. It's musical, or something.

  Harmony Korine

  Fun, Laughing, Musical

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern. Not such a surprise, since I was missing the puzzle chromosome and couldn't do puzzles designed for nine-year-olds.

  Janet Evanovich

  Years, Missing, Letters

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

  Betty Smith

  Book, People, Crosswords

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• ...Nothing puzzles God

  Chinua Achebe

  Chinua Achebe, Catherine Lynette Innes (1985). “African Short Stories”, p.34, Heinemann

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• If you can't solve the puzzle, you're nothing but a loser. (Near)

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Death Note, Loser, Near Death

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• I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a show like this could you see the complete picture, stack the pieces up, hold them to the light, see how it all fit together. It made me hopeful, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.

  Janet Fitch

  Light, Hopeful, Mind

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

  Gregory Maguire

  Believe, Together, Done

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• Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Sleep, Eye

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.285, Penguin

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• I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Memories, Tablets, Helping

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• Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.

  Alan Turing

  Real, Needs, Machines

  B. E. Carpenter, Alan Mathison Turing, Michael Woodger (1986). “A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers”, The MIT Press

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• Most of the teams who traded for me or signed me needed me to fill a hole in the puzzle. I feel good about that. You've got to roll with it, live your life day-by-day. Tomorrow's not promised to anyone.

  Kenny Lofton

  Team, Feel Good, Live Your Life

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• Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

  Brian Greene

  Fall, Black, Information

  "Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene Thinks You Might Be a Hologram". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. May 16, 2012.

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• In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Country, Names, Together

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.241, Macmillan

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• When Mr. Miyamoto says easy, he doesnt mean simple. He means easily -- this is the difficulty of the language here. Its accessible, and you know how to do things, if not necessarily what to do. You may have a series of puzzles to figure out, and it may be difficult to decipher the meaning, but its not difficult to accomplish what you need to do.

  Eiji Aonuma

  Mean, Simple, Needs

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• You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.

  Annie Lennox

  Song, Three, Lines

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• I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects" involve mathematical puzzles that are not nearly so well worked out as physics theories and never can be... What has happened in Japan over roughly the last ten years has shaken up academic economics, as it obviously should, creating strong worries about recession from "wealth effects" in reverse.

  Charlie Munger

  Strong, Creating, Worry

  Charlie Munger's speech at the Breakfast Meeting of the Philanthropy Roundtable in Washington, D.C., November 10, 2000.

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• What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Imagination, Expansion

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• While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Average, Numbers

  Sherlock Holmes to Doctor Watson in The Sign of Four (1890).

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• Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

  David Blaine

  Beautiful, Creating, Magic

  Time Out Interview with Brett Martin, April 1, 1999.

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