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• So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it, the grip of life's relentless urges slackened, replaced by this icy simplicity. This wasnt her death. It was his. That was the sad and honest truth. Though it would stay with her, it would be more like a black onyx heart on a silver chain, worn privately, under her clothes, close to her body, all her life. The guilt, the beauty, everything. It wasnt over, it had only begun. Well ok then, Okay.

  Janet Fitch

  Passion, Heart, Clothes

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• The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Artist, Today, Century

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• Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.

  Lynn Margulis

  Self, Order, Years

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

  James McGreevey

  Anger, Thoughtful, Government

  Farewell address to the state, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2004.

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• How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Nature, Men, Machines

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1989). “The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans”

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• The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Religious, Ivf, Dna

  "Human Clones: Why Not?" by Nathan Myhrvold, www.slate.com. March 14, 1997.

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• The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Judging, Healthy, Democracy

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.

  Yoko Ono

  Cells, Years, Body

  "This much I know" by Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn't stopped there... And touring is a lot of work. I'm impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it's gotta hurt somewhere.

  Steve Perry

  Hurt, Spring, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Tomorrow, Saddam, Ifs

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• Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

  William Shatner

  New York, Actors, Tvs

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• I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion. The catwalk is pure anthropology, something like an esoteric encrypted parade. It can totally be replaced but it will be missed.

  Hedi Slimane

  Fashion, Emotional, Esoteric

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• Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

  Thomas Sowell

  School, Today, Indoctrination

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• The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.

  Patrick Stewart

  Phones, Cells, Insane

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• Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.

  Margaret George

  Sweet, Journey, Self

  Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.262, Pan Macmillan

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• Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole Like some pocket history of the world, so general As to constitute a sob or wail

  John Ashbery

  Mean, Mad, Pockets

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

  Paulo Coelho

  Girl, Fear, Real

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• I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It's not a big deal." Anger replaced my fear. I didn't like being treated like a child. "Stop calling me that. You don't even know what you're talking about." "Sure I do. I had to do a report on the R.S.S.R. last year.

  Richelle Mead

  Children, Talking, Years

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.69, Penguin

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• The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Grandparent, Missing, Sound

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.223, A&C Black

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• There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Men, Mirrors, Cheesy

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.

  Daniel Abraham

  Spring, Lying, Flower

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• He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

  Louis Sachar

  Lakes, Spoons, Breakfast

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.48, Yearling

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• When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Morning, Determination, Giving

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• By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Writing, Support

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• You replaced me with a shaved poodle?” “He’s got mad skills.” Derek’s eyebrows crept up. “He can vomit and urinate at the same time and he doesn’t make fun of my car.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fun, Eyebrows, Skills

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