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• Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Golf, Capitalist

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• The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.

  Joel Sartore

  Nature, Flower, Butterfly

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• A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines, with an artist's impression of the bun; how Elvis Presley was recently sighted working in a Burger Lord in Des Moines; how listening to Elvis records cured a Des Moines housewife's cancer; how the spate of werewolves infesting the Midwest are the offspring of noble pioneer women raped by Bigfoot; and that Elvis was taken by Space Aliens in 1976 because he was too good for this world. Remarkably, one of these stories is indeed true.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jesus, Cancer, Taken

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• A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Thinking, Giving, Mind

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Different, Problem, Madeleines

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.196, Macmillan

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• Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront... She's not as inclined to conciliate or placate. Cora is fascinated by Mary

  Jessica Fellowes

  Children, Needs, Mary

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• He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reading, Squares, Guy

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.

  Russell Kirk

  College, Waste, Students

  Russell Kirk (1963). “Confessions of a bohemian Tory: episodes and reflections of a vagrant career”

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• Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who's going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?

  Robin Sloan

  Warrior, Guy, Doe

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.76, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today.

  Bill Bryson

  Average, People, Hunters

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.66, Random House

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• I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.

  Bob Goff

  School, College, Thinking

  Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.207, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• [The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.

  Michael Warner

  Marriage, Gay, Priests

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• The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Loss

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• Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people.

  Tony Judt

  Home, Average, People

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.16, Penguin

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• The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

  Voltaire

  Funny Friendship, Real, Self

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• With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?

  James Crawford

  Justice, Diversity, Freedom Of Speech

  James Crawford (1992). “Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Thorough Understanding, Tactics, Chess

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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• A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a way to write off his wine cellar. It's a dated view. Wine writers now use computers.

  Frank J. Prial

  Writing, Wine, Typewriters

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger is blaming man for global warming. And today, Al Gore agreed with him. That's so typical. Two cyborgs, 'Oh, let's blame the humans.'

  Jay Leno

  Men, Two, Als

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• A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

  Nicholas Sparks

  New York, Agents, Letters

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• "It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

  Evelyn Waugh

  New Year, Autumn, Years

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.

  Liz Phair

  Song, People, Independence

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• Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

  William Rehnquist

  Pregnancy, Different, Disease

  General Elec. Co. v. Gilbert, 429 U.S. 125, 1976.

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• That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down

  Eva Longoria

  Clever, Pregnancy, World

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• Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Book, Garden, Twists

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