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Jenny’s admonition had the desired effect. Ned drew a deep breath and thrust his arm gingerly into the bag, his mouth puckered in distaste. The expression on his face flickered from queasy horror to confusion. From there, it flew headlong into outright bafflement. Shaking his head, he pulled his fist from the bag and turned his hand palm up. For a long moment, the two men stared at the offending lump. It was brightly colored. It was round. It was— “An orange?” Lord Blakely rubbed his forehead. “Not quite what I expected.” He scribbled another notation. “We live in enlightened times,” Jenny murmured. ↗

— Courtney Milan

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In any perfect relationship men should remember it's a matter of direction; she takes what's right and you take what's left. ↗

— Solitaire Parke

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This microcosm was pregnant with the germ of a proper time and space, and all the kinds of cosmical beings. Within this punctual cosmos the myriad but not unnumbered physical centers of power, which men conceive vaguely as electrons, protons, and the rest, were at first coincident with one another. And they were dormant. The matter of ten million galaxies lay dormant in a point. ↗

— Olaf Stapledon

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A veiled Mind is more enticing than all the nude men lining up the Seine, during Summer. ↗

— AainaA-Ridtz

#mind #nude #men

Let's look at this rationally...We've got a doctor who may kill him, an Attorney General who wants to declare him bananas, and a Defense Secretary who wants me to start World War III...First, we ruled out starting World War III. We were down to killing the President or having him carted off by the men in white coats... ↗

— Christopher Buckley

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God made men first because they make the best dads, and nothing could replace them. ↗

— Antoinette McKain

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The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men. ↗

— Charles Bracelen Flood

#hardship #tribulation #war #men

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side. ↗

— Andrew Taylor Still

#facts #fail #failures #faulty #feet

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world. ↗

— Carl L. Becker

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affliction or grief to the children of men. (Lamentations 3:32-33) God's ↗

— Gerald Bridges

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