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• Adrian's new research partner stepped through the door, and I knew the uneasy peace we'd just established in Palm Springs was about to shatter. Dimitri Belikov had arrived.

  Richelle Mead

  Spring, Doors, Dimitri

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.268, Penguin

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• And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridget can't make her up a plate of cold chicken. As for the rest of you-" He paused for a moment, as if he were about to give them an order-send them to bed, perhaps, or back to the library to do more research. The moment passed, and a look of puzzlement crossed his face. "Blast it, I can't remember what I was going to say," he announced, and vanished into the kitchen.

  Cassandra Clare

  Order, Giving, Kitchen

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Telephones, Done

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

  Stephen King

  Procrastination, Calling, Weakness

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• People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Believe, Book

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• Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after 50 years of brutal occupation, the three Baltic countries regained their independence, peacefully and with dignity. They chose hope over hate and showed the world that even through the darkest night, there is light. Please research it. Tell someone. These three tiny nations have taught us that love is the most powerful army. Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy - love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Country, Powerful, Hate

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• I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Believe, Fate, Successful

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.299, Macmillan

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• As I leafed through the book in front of me and watched the dust swirl in the air, I wondered if maybe there was some evil dormant virus in the pages that would infect me, like the mummy dust that used to kill archaeologists. Death by research. That was not a glorious end.

  Rachel Caine

  Book, Air, Dust

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• I wanted someone a little more approachable," I explained. "What, like Captain McTropicalShorts back there? Where on earth did you find him anyway?" "Just did an Internet search." Feeling a need to defend my research, I added, "He comes highly recommended." "By who? Long John Silver?

  Richelle Mead

  Long, Feelings, Needs

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.162, Penguin

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• Divorce is marital welfare.It’s just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn’t do enough research before they got married.

  Stephen Colbert

  Couple, Divorce, Bail

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• Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.

  Susan Cain

  Personality, Brain, Important

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• Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising.

  Richelle Mead

  Might, Sides, Cigarette

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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• It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Night, Silence, Vertigo

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• Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information more mindfully. Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Taken, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.

  Isabel Allende

  Teacher, Believe, Men

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• There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…” Uncle Will frowned. “Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?” “No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis.” “I weep for the future.” “There’s where the martinis come in.

  Libba Bray

  Uncles, Book, School

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• I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.

  Libba Bray

  Book, Numbers, Giving

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• Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.

  George Packer

  War, Party, Independent

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• Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Done, One Time, Ifs

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel”, p.89, Macmillan

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• Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

  Gary Chapman

  Average, Language Of Love, Ideas

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.41, Moody Publishers

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• According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Religious, Determination, Thinking

  Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.9, HarperCollins

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• I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches

  Brigham Young

  World, Body, Spirit

  Brigham Young (1860). “Journal of Discourses”

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• In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research laboratories running around inside wheels and conduction frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man. The fact that once again man completely misinterpreted this relationship was entirely according to these creatures’ plans.

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Intelligent, Men

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.105, Pan Macmillan

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• Derek looked at Kylie and half chuckled. "The last time I saw that look from girls, there was a handwritten note on my neighbor's tree house that read 'No boys allowed.' I'll see you. And if I get anything from my computer research, I'll let you know.

  C.C. Hunter

  Girl, Boys, Tree

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• Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Thinking, Might

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.462, Macmillan

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