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• Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.

  George Washington

  Thanksgiving, People, Next

  Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

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• The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two-year suspension for a lawyer found having jailhouse sex with a triple murder defendant she was representing. HaHa! Jokes on you dummies... I'm not really a lawyer!

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Sex, Humor

  "Saturday Night Live Weekend Update" with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, snltranscripts.jt.org. April 9, 2005.

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• Yeah? Rock 'n' Roll is fast, you know. If all goes according to plan I could be in rehab next thursday. Tuesday week I'll be living on an island with a small Indian boy.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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• I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day.

  Micah Lexier

  Cutting, Knives, Recycling

  "A Believer Excerpt From Sheila Heti’s Interview With Artist Micah Lexier". Interview with Sheila Heti, www.mcsweeneys.net. October 11, 2013.

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• Christian said he'd call the next day, but in boy time that meant Thursday.

  Cher

  Christian, Clueless, Boys

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• Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Taken, Two, People

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• I was joking the other day about how my real life feels like a TV show, and my TV life feels real - because, to be on Thursday nights on NBC, which is what I grew up with, has been such a big part of inspiring me. To be part of that tradition is really completely surreal, and I'm so grateful.

  Whitney Cummings

  Real, Grateful, Night

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 15, 2011.

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• Laura Alicia Deverell was born on May 10th, 1862, at precisely a quarter past one o'clock on a Thursday morning. Those interested in that pseudo-science astrology or astromancy may trace her life and character, if they wish, among the stars, where no doubt it is all written.

  Susan Ertz

  Morning, Stars, Book

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• We did what we are supposed to. We protected home. We have to try to do it again Thursday night.

  LeBron James

  Home, Night, Nba Championships

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• This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday, they seized the presidential palace. On Thursday, they forced the president to resign.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Government, Tuesday, Presidential

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• I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don't even get out of bed five days in a row-I often don't remember to eat five days in a row. Reporting to a workplace, where I should need to stay for eight hours-eight big hours outside my home- was unfeasible.

  Gillian Flynn

  Friday, Monday, Home

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• It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Senior, Sports

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.

  A. A. Milne

  House, Robins, Stories

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.18, Egmont UK

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• The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. "How could you have been happy there? I know what you thought, but Valentine was a terrible father. He killed your pets, lied to you, and I know he hit you- don't even try to pretend he didn't." A flicker of a smile ghosted across Jace's face. "Only on alternate Thursdays.

  Cassandra Clare

  Father, Valentine, Pet

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• I love the satisfaction of living in a world on a Wednesday where a song didn't exist that you're going to create on a Thursday that's going to change somebody's life, possibly, you're creating that from nothing.

  Noel Gallagher

  Love, Life, Change

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• God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

  William Lawrence Bragg

  Friday, Running, Monday

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• Here's what I've learned about eating healthy when you're busy: It's all about preparation. Make your snacks on Sunday, and you will be good to go until Thursday or so.

  Summer Sanders

  Sunday, Snacks, Healthy

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• It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Morning, Fall

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.8218, Delphi Classics

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• The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Monday, Names, Tuesday

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• The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps.

  Samuel Beckett

  Friday, Monday, Prayer

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Watt”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• This moment right here, me standing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of network television full of women of color, competitive women, strong women, women who own their bodies and whose lives revolve around their work instead of their men, women who are big dogs, that could only be happening right now.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Strong Women, Dog, Night

  "Shonda Rhimes at THR's 2014 Power Women Event: 'I Haven't Broken Through Any Glass Ceilings'" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 10, 2014.

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• I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thanksgiving, Father, Heaven

  Proclamation, 3 Oct. 1863

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