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From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the US, it spent $214 on an Israeli.
Ahdaf Soueif
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I always say nothing you can imagine is totally impossible. It might be unlikely, but that's as far as I'll go.
Jennifer Rowe
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Hmmmm...There certainly are a lot of pretty boys in this world.
L.A. Meyer
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When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.
James Rollins
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You never fall in love with anyone the same way you fell in love with someone else. It's always different, every time, if you're lucky-or cursed-enough to have it happen more than once. But I've never been uncertain about love, not any of the times I found myself in it. Love is always real, even when it doesn't last.
Megan Hart
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I loved all the parts of him, even the ones I didn't understand.
Jude Watson
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Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.
D. E. Stevenson
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I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn't dead yet, I was just on my way to dying, and it's harder to burn memories when you've still got life left. When you're alive you have to learn how to live with things like regret.
Christopher Barzak
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When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking stick, too.
Bailey White
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No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.
Alexander Gordon Smith
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I don't know what your damage is, but in case you've failed to notice, we're in a bit of trouble here. Can you focus on something other than trying to get into my pants?" His lips curled. " I can multitask.
Alexandra Ivy
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I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different.
Cynthia Kadohata
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You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.
Marianne Wiggins
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When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.
James N. Frey
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Everybody's got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don't got is power.
Justin Torres
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A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.
Greg Iles
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It's like someone who prays every night saying God's a good listener. Just because you're talking to us doesn't mean we're listening. With me and God, you never really know.
Paul Neilan
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It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.
Jeanne DuPrau
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Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.
Glenway Wescott
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Negative thoughts were treated by Cherokee healers with the same medicines as wounds, headaches, or physical illness. It was believed that unchecked negative thoughts can permeate the being and manifest themselves in negative actions.
Wilma Mankiller
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A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.
Steve Kluger
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What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.
Gretchen Rubin
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I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court romance. But I never pictured anything as poor as this village. This is the pits. There's no romance here, definitely no chivary. And it stinks—of sweat and smoke and sewage.
Marianne Curley
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The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance.
Tim LaHaye
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Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.
Tanya Huff
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