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• Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way that indicated he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage entirely so that he could tell Blue that he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage so that she could tell him well done with your carbon footprint and all that jazz. Blue said, "Better recycle that bottle.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Coffee, Blue, Carbon Footprint

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

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• I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.

  Boomer Esiason

  Technology, Community, Understanding

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• Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

  Uta Hagen

  Character, Play, Feelings

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• We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood.

  Carl Rogers

  Mean, Loss, Growing Knowledge

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.382, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

  Philip K. Dick

  Ideas, Twists, Odd Things

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Time Out of Joint”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Patriotic, Men, Waiting

  Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50”, p.470, Library of America

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• The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

  Robert Ardrey

  Stars, Science, Men

  "African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man". Book by Robert Ardrey, 1961.

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• The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

  William Graham Sumner

  Luxury, Wages, Agents

  William Graham Sumner (1914). “The challenge of facts: and other essays”

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• Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.

  Herbert Hoover

  Doors, Evil, President

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933”

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• One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Successful

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• It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.

  Chris Adrian

  Book, Angel, Grace

  Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.32, Granta Books

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• A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Memories, Mind

  Jack Kerouac (2006). “Book of Sketches”, p.65, Penguin

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• [When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as a chemist, I know how to eat, how to exercise, keep my blood circulating. ... I don't worry. I don't get angry at people. I don't worry about things I can't help. I do what I can to make the world a better place to live, but I don't complain if things aren't right. As a scientist I take the world as I find it.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Wisdom, Exercise, Science

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• [Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Taken, Science, Space

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• ...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Photography, Lying, Literature

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• I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us...

  Robert Crippen

  Military, Half, Astronaut

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

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• Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the word, 'CHIROPRACTIC.'

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Weed, Hands, Two

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• Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

  Kafu Nagai

  Art, Nature, Discarded

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• The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially when the good news was first reported by Jews. However, the choice was interpreted not as tribute to superior virtue but as divine challenge.

  Israel Shenker

  People, Choices, Challenges

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

  Paulo Freire

  Community, Leader, Favors

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.103, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.

  Alberto Manguel

  Wall, Book, Reflection

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.175, Vintage Canada

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• There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.

  Lois Lowry

  Shapes, Rooms, All Alone

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Presidents are selected, not elected.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  President, Politics

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• Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

  C.J. Langenhoven

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Book

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• I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Regret, Book, Reading

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