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• Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Husband, Divorce, America

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• Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.

  Alaa Al Aswany

  Hands, Practice, Political

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• There's always a 'but' when it comes to jobs. Like, I love my job but my colleagues are first-rate, but...a couple of them like to dress like superheroes on the weekend and I can't help but wonder if they're nuts." - Logan

  Nicholas Sparks

  Jobs, Couple, Weekend

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• We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)

  Erich Segal

  Suicide, Doctors, Eight

  Erich Segal (2013). “Doctors”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

  Horace Mann

  Book, Giving, House

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

  John Updike

  Basketball, Matter, Firsts

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 02, 2016

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• More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Running, Men, Goes On

  Commonwealth Club Address, delivered 23 Sept 1932, San Francisco, CA

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• Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for a couple of hours' usage of your frankly third-rate restaurant and perhaps find a friendless tree stump to listen to your woes?

  Eoin Colfer

  Couple, Worry, Tree

  "Artemis Fowl The Atlantis Complex". Book by July 20, 2010, July 20, 2010.

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• My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chicago. As far as I know, I'm the only openly practicing professional wizard in the country. You can find me in the yellow pages, under "Wizards." Believe it or not, I'm the only one there. My ad looks like this: HARRY DRESDEN — WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment You'd be surprised how many people call just to ask me if I'm serious.

  Jim Butcher

  Country, Party, Believe

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.21, Penguin

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  Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

  William Wilberforce

  Quality, Selfishness, Fruit

  William Wilberforce (1797). “A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity”, p.424

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• Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Falling In Love, Should Have

  Twitter post from Sep 3, 2012

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• Halt! How are you? What have you been doing? Where's Abelard? How's Crowley? What's this all about?" "I'm glad to see you rate my horse more important than our Corps Commandant," Halt said, one eyebrow rising in the expression that Will knew so well. Early in their relationship, he had thought it was an expression of displeasure. He had learned years ago that it was, for Halt, the equivalent of a smile.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Expression, Years

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• It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Simple, Birth Rate

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• Amber, you could never embarrass me." "Never?" she asked. "Never." "One time, I yelled across the store to Mom and asked her if she wanted the regular or the super-absorbent tampons. I added that, according to the box, the super-absorbent were for those heavy days. Then I asked her to rate her heaviness on a scale of one to ten." "Okay, you could." "Then while we were standing in line, I asked her why she was buying three boxes of Summer's Eve in the middle of winter." I set her at arm's length. "Wow." "I know, right? I had no idea a person could turn so red.

  Darynda Jones

  Summer, Mom, Winter

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.150, St. Martin's Press

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• When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta. Happiness, of course, is a complete absurdity at this point, since at the rate things are going, I'll be dead in a day. And that's the best-case scenario, if I'm able to eliminate the rest of the field, including myself, and get Peeta crowned as the winner of the Quarter Quell. Still, the sensation's so unexpected and sweet I cling to it, if only for a few moments. Before the gritty sand, the hot sun, and my itching skin demand a return to reality.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sweet, Reality, Feelings

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.497, Scholastic UK

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• Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

  John Ortberg

  Art, People, Disappointing

  John Ortberg (2012). “Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus”, p.101, Zondervan

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• Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.

  Ian Mcewan

  Leap, Grows, Steady

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• Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as they like, only they will fly.

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, Law, Two

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Three Sisters”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.

  Jim Butcher

  Car, Thieves, Sweetheart

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.32, Penguin Group

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• You might want to get up," he said. "Everyone will be here quite soon to rescue you, and you may prefer to have clothes on when they arrive." He shrugged. "I would, at any rate, but then, I am well known to be remarkably shy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Clothes, Shy, May

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.433, Simon and Schuster

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• You do realize that the cost of that bracelet is within spitting distance of my going rate as an assassin, right?” “You mean your going rate back when you were actually killing people for money,” Finn said. “Or as I like to call them— the good ole days.

  Jennifer Estep

  Distance, Mean, People

  Jennifer Estep (2013). “Deadly Sting”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Twenties, Coincidence

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.74, Penguin

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• The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.

  Stephen Hawking

  School, Ideas, People

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.147, Random House

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• Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

  John William Draper

  Time, Feelings, Duration

  John William Draper (1863). “A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe”, p.13, New York, Harper

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• Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

  Mark Pincus

  Business, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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