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And don't pay attention to Christina. Your face doesn't look that bad." He smiles a little. "I mean, it looks good. It always looks good. i mean--you look brave. Dauntless." His eyes skirt mine, and he scratches the back of his head. The silence grows between us. It was a nice thing to say, but he acts like it means more than just words. I hope I am wrong. I could not be attracted to Al-- I could not be attracted to anyone that fragile. I smile as much as my bruised cheek will allow, hoping that will diffuse the tension.

Veronica Roth

Nice, Mean, Eye

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The guy behind the counter scratches his neck. “Are you being serious?” Her face is stoic. “Absolutely. I never kid about teddy bears.

Jessica Sorensen

Kids, Guy, Faces

Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.91, Hachette UK

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I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

Abraham Lincoln

Mind, Steel, Pieces

Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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This week my son thinks he's the Supremes.All of them. So we can scratch "straight"off the list. At least I hope we can. As a gay kid he'll be a natural leader. Put him in a macho bullshit environment and he's going to have a hard time. I don't want that to happen. (Let's also not forget Wei's immortal words to him nine minutes after he was born, when she first stared into those big brown eyes: "Oh, honey. Promose me you'll grow up to like boys. Because I don't want any other woman in your life except me.")

Steve Kluger

Growing Up, Eye, Kids

Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.44, Penguin

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... the hardest studio music to play is Tom & Jerry - cartoons. The music makes absolutely no sense, as music. You can't get into hearing it. There's nothing to hear-'bleep!, blop! scratch!' and it comes fast; everything's first take. That'll change the way you look at life.

Howard Roberts

Music, Play, Cartoon

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They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They'd both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They'd both lost their way without the other. Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished.

Guillaume Musso

Love, Block, Years

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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

Elias Canetti

Statistics

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As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

Richard Branson

Art, Strong, Personality

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Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.

Dave Barry

Dog, Cat, Trying

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Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the ITU, WIPO and the WMO. At first sight, there may not seem to be much common ground between CERN and, say, the World Meteorological Organization, but scratch the surface, and you'll soon find a common thread. All of these organizations have a vocation to stimulate technological innovation, and together we're stronger.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Sight, Agreement, Common Threads

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Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.

Phyllis McGinley

Father, Believe, Qualms About

Phyllis McGinley (1968). “Wonders and surprises: a collection of poems”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.

Geoffrey Zakarian

Mother, Pie, Today

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It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

John Seely Brown

Moon, Data, Lasts

John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid (2017). “The Social Life of Information: Updated, with a New Preface”, p.115, Harvard Business Review Press

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Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.

R. C. Sproul, Jr.

Mirrors, Idols, Worship

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Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.

Phyllis McGinley

Women, Thinking, Long

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My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!

Derek Jacobi

Book, Wind, Hands

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The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch.

Li Ka-shing

Running, Years, Fixing

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Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.

Terry McMillan

Doctors, Sometimes, Cheat

Terry McMillan (2013). “Who Asked You?”, p.17, Penguin

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Christians should not be hostile, they should not hate, they should not judge, and they should not condemn. But they also must not shy away from real Truth and real Christianity. Just because so many have “itching ears” and “will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions” does not mean Christians should be willing to scratch that itch.

Erick Erickson

Christian, Teacher, Hate

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I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.

Danilo Kis

People, Scar, Refined

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I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Two, Safety, Wife

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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Horace

Hard Work, Brain, Nails

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I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.

Joan Rivers

Art, Night, Forever

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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.

Andre Gide

Mean, Laughing, Suffering

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Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle.

Kelly Corrigan

Air, People, Larks

Kelly Corrigan (2014). “Glitter and Glue: A Memoir”, p.186, Ballantine Books

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