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• That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.

  Edward Coke

  Mean, Deeds, May

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• This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual

  Sebastian Coe

  Usual

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• Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity. Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.

  Alan Greenspan

  Fall, Home, Years

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• What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth.

  Anne Rice

  Mean, Kids, College

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• Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Humility, Play, People

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• The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

  John C. Bogle

  Data, Long, Support

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

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• There's nothing unusual about love.

  Charles Bukowski

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• Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

  Cecelia Ahern

  Unusual Things, Mind, Sometimes

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• although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the golf course party with a good party, and she did not tell herself she had a pleasant time. it had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations. what frankie did that was unusual was to imagine herself in control. the drinks, the clothes, the instructions, the food (there had been none), the location, everything. she asked herself: if i were in charge, how could i have done it better?

  E. Lockhart

  Short Life, Party, Home

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• ...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

  Anne Tyler

  Adventure, Vacation, Dying

  Anne Tyler (1982). “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Hands, Giving

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Edition”, p.312, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Behold the Drojim Palace," King Urgit said extravagantly to Sadi, "the hereditary home of the House of Urga." "A most unusual structure, You Majesty," Sadi murmured. "That's a diplomatic way to put it." Urgit looked critically at his palace. "It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

  David Eddings

  Kings, Home, House

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• Oh, yes, she's unusual!' he said bitterly. 'She blurts our whatever may come into her head;she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another;she's happier gromming horses and hobnobbing with stable-hands than going to parties; she's impertinent; you daren't catch her eye for fear she should start to giggle; she hasn't any accomplishments; I never saw anyone with less diginity; she's abominable, and damnably hot at hand, frank to a fault, and-a darling!

  Georgette Heyer

  Horse, Party, Eye

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• of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things did not stick to her. If we were hurt, if we were unhappy or otherwise victimized by life, she seemed to know about it, and to care, as soon as we did. But bad things falling on her -- unkind words, nasty stares, foot blisters -- she seemed unaware of. I never saw her look in a mirror, never heard her complain. All of her feelings, all of her attentions flowed outward. She had no ego.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Hurt, Fall, Mirrors

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• I was on Entourage last week smoking a bong and making out with hookers and I did show them that before, cause it wasn't a hard 'r' cause a lot of people are watching that show that they know, not my little one - she's 12, but very sophisticated so it's an unusual case.

  Bob Saget

  People, Smoking, Littles

  "Bob Saget talks dirty about The Aristocrats". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. July 25, 2005.

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• The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Animal, Thinking, Ideas

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• My usual self is a very unusual self.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Self, Usual

  Shelagh Delaney (2014). “A Taste of Honey”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• They have an unusual relationship. And when things are good, it's magic.

  Lisa McMann

  Magic

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• …Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mean, Usual, Normalcy

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Ego, Glimpse, Ugly

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• Dustfinger inspected his reddened fingers and felt the taut skin. ‘He might tell me how my story ends,’ he murmured. Meggie looked at him in astonishment. ‘You mean you don’t know?’ Dustfinger smiled. Meggie still didn’t particularly like his smile. It seemed to appear only to hide something else. ‘What’s so unusual about that, princess?’ he asked quietly. ‘Do you know how your story ends?’ Meggie had no answer for that.

  Cornelia Funke

  Princess, Mean, Skins

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

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• Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Couple, Real, Years

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• He waited while Gilan and Will moved the cloaks experimentally, eyeing each other and studying the unusual colors, seeing how they would blend into the landscape of rock and desert that surrounded Al Shabah. All right, ladies," he said, "if you're finished with the fashion show, let's go meet the Wakir.

  John Flanagan

  Fashion, Rocks, Color

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• dont undress my love you might find a mannequin dont undress the mannequin you might find love. shes long ago forgotten me. hes trying on a new hat and looks more the coquette then ever. she is a child and a mannequin and death. i can't hate that. she didnt do anything unusual. I only wanted her to.

  Charles Bukowski

  Children, Hate, Love You

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• When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.

  Victor Hugo

  Memories, Disappointment, Fire

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