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• Tobias asked. "Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into dolphins . . . You're suggesting that's weird?

  Katherine Applegate

  Sharks, Talking, Whales

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• Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act.

  Michel Foucault

  Alarms, Done, Levels

  Michel Foucault (1980). “Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews”, p.5, Cornell University Press

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• Forgive me, Your Grace. Are you suggesting a woman is some sort of … piece of fruit to you? One squeeze, and you know if she’s ripe?

  Tessa Dare

  Forgive Me, Grace, Forgiving

  Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.72, Ballantine Books

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• Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you." "Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before." "Are you suggesting I can't hurt you?" "On the contrary, I think you have the power to do great damage.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Hurt, Thinking, Damage

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.149, Macmillan

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• The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wine, Water, Lord

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity - suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

  Alain de Botton

  Heart, Mediocrity, May

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Summer, Senior, Mother

  Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.228, Random House

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• Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.

  Naomi Wolf

  Hurt, Self Esteem, Teaching

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• [P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

  Henry Adams

  Philosophy, Answers, Problem

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• Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

  Graham Chapman

  Coconuts, Migrate

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• A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

  Alberto Manguel

  Library, Gaps, Growing

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• And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

  David Icke

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Magazines

  David Icke (1996). “--and the Truth Shall Set You Free”, Truth Seeker Company Incorporated

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• There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Race, Fans

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• I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

  Angela Davis

  Prison, Social, Function

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• In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Government, Way, Conservative

  "Jarvis Cocker: I'm no Tory boy" by Rosie Swash, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2009.

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• I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.

  Amy Chua

  Tolerance, Secret, Looks

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• I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

  Tony Campolo

  Country, Clever, Home

  "Making Matters Worse in Haiti" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2010.

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• I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Car, People

  Interview with Anne Pasternak, creativetime.org.

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• Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

  Maurice Strong

  Baby, Children, Years

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• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  "Copyright Case Against 'Da Vinci Code' Publisher Begins", www.foxnews.com. February 27, 2006.

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• If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Mom, Baby

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

  C.D. Wright

  Lying, Doubt, Resolution

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.28, Copper Canyon Press

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• Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  God, Faith, Patience

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• Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.

  Samantha Hunt

  Dream, Real, Thinking

  Samantha Hunt (2009). “The Invention of Everything Else”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.

  Dorianne Laux

  Writing, Thinking, Artist

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

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