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And I don't really have anyone upon whom I want to rain down my wrath," I said, because in truth I didn't. I always felt… — John Green
The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout… — Leo Tolstoy
I love making observations. That one is a classic example. — Stephen Colbert
Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if… — William Shakespeare
The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power.… — Chuck Palahniuk
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine,… — Aldo Leopold
It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most… — Terry Pratchett
[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at… — Frederick Douglass
In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere… — Alfie Kohn
With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would… — Libba Bray
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument… — Barack Obama
There were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning of winter.â€™ â€˜Oh… — Melina Marchetta
But what's worth more than gold?" "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all.… — Terry Pratchett
We should try to be happy, just to set an example — Jacques Prevert
The stupid vamp just asked me to marry him. Here, now? As if looking like I just died is how I wanted to be proposed… — C.C. Hunter
It would have been better to come back at the same hour,â€ said the fox. â€œIf, for example, you came at four oâ€™clock in the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He let you have the pants anyway?" she asked. I had started talking about Maxon as soon as I could, eager to know how their… — Kiera Cass
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree,… — Paulo Coelho
Mr. Branwell and Mr. Carstairs seem to have no problem cleaning their boots,â€ Sophie said, looking darkly from Will to Tessa. â€œPerhaps you could learn… — Cassandra Clare

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