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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.

Joseph Conrad

Strong, Pride, Reality

Joseph Conrad “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad”, Library of Alexandria

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The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

Walter Raleigh

World, Execution, Prison

"The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful empire of Guiana".

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Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.

Charles Thom

Life, Science, Ideas

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My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.

Erika Slezak

Summer, Daughter, Mother

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The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow a political and selected pattern.

John Sparkman

Choices Made, Law, Political

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Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.

Timothy Leary

Humorous, Self, Hopeful

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Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The words sit there on the page like coins, with their own opacity, as though they're there for their own sake. "A man goes into a phone booth, stirring coins in his palm." "Stirring" is such an obviously selected word. You can feel the writer looking for the word as he sat at the typewriter.

Leonard Michaels

Men, Typewriters, Phones

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Book, Writing, World

"Dictionary of Quotations in Communications" by Lilless McPherson Shilling, p. xvi, 1997.

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God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.

Francis of Assisi

Wonderful, Weak, Absurd

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There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.

Soren Kierkegaard

Reflection, Two, Lightning

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She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.

Sidney Sheldon

Blood, Naked, Red

Sidney Sheldon (2012). “If Tomorrow Comes”, p.3, HarperCollins UK

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A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

Carl Jung

Patient, Nonsense, Select

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I've decided to get into shape, and the shape I've selected is a triangle.

Howie Mandel

Triangles, Shapes, Decided

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As calls come to us for church service by the Lord's representatives, it is natural for us to wonder why we have been selected. The Lord has made it plain that every individual has been blessed and endowed with certain gifts and talents. And while there are many gifts, yet 'To some is given one, and to some is given another, that all may be profited thereby.' (D&C 46:12)

Henry D. Taylor

Blessed, Church Service, Gifts And Talents

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An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.

Thomas Jefferson

Acres, Hemp, Patches

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This is what I will forever hold against men in general: that they have carefully selected out and inoculated intelligent women with a sense of specialness: you're not like other girls. Damn, for a woman, you sure are bright as hell!

Dorothy Uhnak

Girl, Intelligent, Men

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Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

Alfred Marshall

Book, Simple, Doctrine

Alfred Marshall (2015). “The Early Economic Writings of Alfred Marshall, 1867–1890”, p.82, Springer

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When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.

Edgar Fiedler

Asking, Answers, Topics

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I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to give a blurb for From Here to Eternity. It's there, in the Selected Letters for all to read, an example of a once great writer at his very worst. I doubt that he ever forgave Scribners for publishing James Jones in the first place. War, as Hemingway saw it, belonged to him.

Larry McMurtry

War, Giving, Doubt

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I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.

Rainey Qualley

Awards, Careers, Missing

"Andie MacDowell’s Daughter Rainey Qualley Named Miss Golden Globe". www.accessonline.com. December 8, 2011.

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A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

Newton D. Baker

College, Men, Association

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Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.

Tom Clancy

Reading, Sunday, Lessons To Be Learned

Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.41, Penguin

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To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.

Oscar Pistorius

Determination, Real, Team

"'Blade runner' Pistorius handed dream double Olympic ticket", www.cnn.com. July 5, 2012.

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I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.

George Papandreou

Europe, Government, President

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The Japanese tend to be far more co-operative and docile and group-oriented. It would be easier to get the entire population of Tokyo to wear matching outfits than to get any two randomly selected Americans to agree on pizza toppings.

Dave Barry

Funny, Japan, Two

Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.63, Ballantine Books

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