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61 " We live in a world that has so many people striving to look normal to a bunch of people that are abnormal, in order to be accepted. What is normal is realizing that being accepted comes at a price that robs the world of the uniqueness that God has created you to be every time you minimize your personality to make someone like you. "
― Shannon L. Alder
62 " Fs Are " Fabulous" Hey, Mom and Dad! I got my grades!And you'll be thrilled to hearthe marks on our report cards are changed around this year. A bunch of kids were telling methis morning on the bus,that they had heard some teachers saythat Fs are " fabulous." And Ds are proudly given outfor work that's " dynamite." They're used to honor kids like me,whose brains are really bright.So C of course is super " cool" -I've got a few of those.I wish they could be Ds and Fs,but that's the way it goes.I'm pleased to see my teacher didn't give an A or B.I've worked too hard for one of those.Gosh, aren't you proud of me?I see you don't believe me.You think that I am lying?At least you will agree that I should get an A for trying! "
63 " If your brother can't 'old 'is own against a bunch of orphans, 'e'd best leave off playing 'azard altogether! "
― Sheri Cobb South , The Weaver Takes a Wife (The "Weaver" series Book 1)
64 " Here! Turn left, I know a short cut through Barons Court." We spend the next twenty minutes mired in roadworks in Barons Court with a bunch of other people who know Edie's short cut. "
65 " The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator. "
― John Grisham , The Client
66 " A soldier: " I know where heaven is and it's Lithuania ... The women are beautiful, pagan, with a practical view towards sex. Who says communism was bad? You're working three levels of advantages: you're a foreign male, you're a rich, exotic American, and their men are a bunch of drunken, criminal slobs. "
67 " Things can get pretty rough out there," he says. " Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you? Lionhearted. "
68 " At best, us ladies are just a bunch of Mirandas with a slightly better wardrobe and at worst, we're a bunch of Magdas, aka Miranda's housekeeper, which means we're a bunch of nosy bitches who rifle through people's belongings and let them know they masterbate too much. "
― Phoebe Robinson , You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
69 " The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. "
― Søren Kierkegaard , Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
70 " Becoming a godly wife is not about following a bunch of rules... If I am feeling overwhelmed and overburdened, I am probably trying to do this in my power, apart from the Spirit's strength. "
71 " I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven't gotten laid since Bush Senior was president... Do you know who studies sociology? People who would rather observe life than live it. "
― Erin McCarthy , Hard and Fast (Fast Track, #2)
72 " History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. "
― Sarah Vowell , Assassination Vacation
73 " The instant that you forget about the consequences of your actions on other people, is the moment that you are about to lose your humanity. We all are related, no matter, what skin color, sexual orientation, gender or religion we hold. We all like rosary beads. Our existence is depended to the rest, if one bead falls apart, the rest of us will do too. Our humanity defines by how we accept, respect and support each other, otherwise we are simply a bunch of animals acting according to our instinct and killing one another to survive. "
― Kambiz Shabankare
74 " Being a person is respect, because you're not a cat or a dog or a bunch of tulips, you're a human person and humanness isn't like something there can be different amounts of, it's maxed out from the start, total respect every time - kill one, kill a trainload, you're dissing the transcendental is all. "
75 " I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves. "
― Cindy Woodsmall , The Sound of Sleigh Bells (Apple Ridge #1)
76 " And even if Amina didn't yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice but to try to wind itself around an empty shirt, she understood for sure that the people who said it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all were a bunch of dicks. "
― Mira Jacob , The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
77 " Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in Why not recruit them by the vanload to sweep in on heroic wings and save the flagging and battered old institution of matrimony from a bunch of apathetic ne'er-do-well heterosexual deadbeats like me "
― Elizabeth Gilbert , Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
78 " Terri had already gotten her panties into a bunch just from one little phone call, so he knew coming at her too much too fast would be more trouble than it was worth. He couldn’t exactly beat her into submission, not right away anyway. Although he did enjoy seeing her get all riled up. Nothing tugged at a man’s heartstrings like a pair of mascara smeared eyes. Randy from Spring Cleaning-- Coming Summer 2012 "
― Brandi Salazar , Spring Cleaning
79 " You boys are really turning into a bunch of Peter Pans," he said. " Willem, what are you? Thirty-six? I'm not sure what's going on with you lot. You’re making money. You've achieved something. Don't you think you guys should stop clinging to one another and get serious about adulthood?" But how was one to be an adult? Was couplehood truly the only appropriate option? "
80 " Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music. "
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