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If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.
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L.J. Smith
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Our life is one, big proverbial coin toss.
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L.J. Smith
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And then you two go and call attention to yourselves like this," Ian continued. "Holding hands in a pedalo, for Christ's sake. They must have been frothing at the mouth at the thought of you two reproducing, wondering if you'd give birth to some kind of metaphysically enhanced creature or a bottomless black hole.
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Jeri Smith-Ready (Shade (Shade, #1))
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Now I don't know why, but Morrissey had always hated Joy Division. Maybe Rob got it right when after a lively debate as the cameras were turned off he turned to Morrissey and said, 'The trouble with you, Morrissey, is that you've never had the guts to kill yourself like Ian. You're fucking jealous.' You should have seen his face as he stormed off. I laughed me bollocks off.
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Peter Hook (The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club)
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Only law firm out there’s called Smith and Wesson.
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Ian Fleming (Diamonds are Forever (James Bond #4))
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Colonel Shoup, who wore a mask of dust and dirt like every other marine on the island, summed up the situation that afternoon: “Well, I think we’re winning, but the bastards have got a lot of bullets left. I think we’ll clean up tomorrow.”57 He was plainly exhausted, having slept not at all the previous night. He was still bleeding through his bandage. His report to General Julian Smith would enter Marine Corps lore: “Casualties many; percentage of dead not known; combat efficiency: We are winning.
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Ian W. Toll (The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944)
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I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
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Ian Douglas Smith
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God, all those months of seeing Kelsey’s pictures and hearing about her travels, and I had been raging with jealousy. And now it was my turn.
I wanted to mind the gap at the tube station and eat fish and chips and try to make the Queen’s guards laugh. I wanted to see Big Ben and the Globe and the London Bridge and Dame Judi Dench. Or Maggie Smith. Or Alan Rickman. Or Sir Ian McKellen. Or anybody famous and British, really.
Holy crap. This was really happening.
And I wasn’t just a tourist. I was visiting with someone who’d grown up in the city. With my fiancé.
Take that, world.
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Cora Carmack (Keeping Her (Losing It, #1.5))
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All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.
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Ian Douglas Smith (The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith)
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pay close attention to the timing of your meals, making sure that you eat them about every three to four hours. Your snacks—if you chose to have them—will come between the meals, but no sooner than an hour after eating a meal.
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Ian K. Smith (Shred: The Revolutionary Diet: 6 Weeks 4 Inches 2 Sizes)
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At its core, Jesus’s teaching about the kingdom is summed up in the Lord’s Prayer: “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10). The prayer is that God’s kingdom will come to earth and that God’s will be done on earth as is the case in heaven. Earth is spoiled by sin, but the question is whether it is spoiled beyond restoration. Jesus’s prayer clearly implies that there is hope.
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Ian K. Smith (Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World)
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It's how we read the face, said Ian. Remember that you're talking to a psychologist. We like to think about things like that. It's a question of numerous little signals that create the overall impression.
But how do internal states who themselves physically?
Very easily, said Ian. Think of anger. The knitted brow. Think of determination. The gritted teeth.
And intelligence?
Liveliness and engagement with the world.
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Alexander McCall Smith (Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (Isabel Dalhousie, #2))
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Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If you are in the midst of painting a forest full of tall tress and hanging vines, it is rather difficult to wake up the next day and suddenly turn that paining into the beach and ocean...We have to treat each day like a black canvas on which we can paint. Yesterday might have been paining flowers, but today you can paint cars or horses. A new day represents a chance for renewal.
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Ian K. Smith (Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life)
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The assumption that economic expansion is driven by consumer demand—more consumers equals more growth—is a fundamental part of the economic theories that underlie the model. In other words, their conclusions are predetermined by their assumptions.
What the model actually tries to do is to use neoclassical economic theory to predict how much economic growth will result from various levels of population growth, and then to estimate the emissions growth that would result. Unfortunately, as Yves Smith says about financial economics, any computer model based on mainstream economic theory “rests on a seemingly rigorous foundation and elaborate math, much like astrology.”
In short, if your computer model assumes that population growth causes emissions growth, then it will tell you that fewer people will produce fewer emissions. Malthus in, Malthus out.
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Ian Angus (Too Many People?: Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis)
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Why, do you think so?” Ian whispered pressing into him from behind. Noah felt Ian’s nakedness touching at his backside and so near that his spine could feel a continuous tingle running up and down. Tilting back Noah rested his head on Ian’s shoulder, warm water was falling over his face; he closed his eyes, and pursed his shivering lips trying to be calm. But, his soul was in turmoil by the heat coming from Ian’s touch and was driving him wild with passion. Noah felt Ian turn his face to the other side. He felt a lovely tease, full nibbles upon his left earlobe from Ian’s lips and teeth.
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Pierce Smith (Noah's Tryst (Enrapture, #2))
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Suggested Reading Atkinson, Kate. Behind the Scenes at the Museum; Binchy, Maeve. Tara Road, The Copper Beech, and Evening Class; Bloom, Amy. Come to Me; Edwards, Kim. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter; Ferris, Joshua. The Unnamed; Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl; Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections; Ganesan, Indira. Inheritance; Hanilton, Jane. Disobedience; Jonasson, Jonas. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared; Joyce, Rachel. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry; Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees; Mapson, Jo-Ann, The Owl & Moon Cafe; McEwan, Ian. Atonement; Miller, Arthur. All My Sons; Morrison, Toni. Love; O’Neill, Eugene. Long Day’s Journey into Night; Pekkanen, Sarah. The Opposite of Me; Porter, Andrew. In Between Days; Quindlen, Anna. Blessings and One True Thing; Rosenfeld, Lucinda. The Pretty One; Sittenfeld, Curtis. Sisterland; Smith, Ali. There But For The; Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club; Tyler, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant; White, Karen. The Time Between; Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway; Yates, Richard. The Easter Parade.
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Maggie O'Farrell (Instructions for a Heatwave)
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[By 1972] Government propaganda had long since prevailed over fact and no one in authority was prepared to encourage disillusionment or mention the possibility of defeat… Most of the [white] electorate by this time were unable to discriminate between fact and fancy, or were so confused as to have lost all powers of discrimination, and their leader [Ian Smith] appeared as one who had assumed a cloak of infallibility.1 — Ken Flower, Head of Rhodesian Intelligence (CIO)
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John Matisonn (God, Spies and Lies: Finding South Africa’s future through its past)
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We return a verdict of wilful murder against David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of England; Lord French, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Ian MacPherson, late Chief Secretary of Ireland; Acting Inspector General Smith of the RIC, Divisional Inspector Clayton of the RIC; DI Swanzy and some unknown members of the RIC.8
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Tim Pat Coogan (Michael Collins: A Biography)
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BOOKS/AUTHORS ON THE BACKS OF LIBRARY CARDS
#1 Miguel Fernandez Incident at Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert/ No, David! by David Shannon
#2 Akimi Hughes One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss/Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
#3 Andrew Peckleman Six Days of the Condor by James Grady/ Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
#4 Bridgette Wadge Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume/ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
#5 Sierra Russell The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder/ The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
#6 Yasmeen Smith-Snyder Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne/The Yak Who Yelled Yuck by Carol Pugliano-Martin
#7 Sean Keegan Olivia by Ian Falconer/Unreal! by Paul Jennings
#8 Haley Daley Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm/ A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
#9 Rose Vermette All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor/ Scat by Carl Hiaasen
#10 Kayla Corson Anna to the Infinite Power by Mildred Ames/Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
#11 UNKNOWN/CHARLES CHILTINGTON
#12 Kyle Keeley I Love You, Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt/ The Napping House by Audrey
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Chris Grabenstein (Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1))
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Dios no se refiere a la noción religiosa del Creador que castiga y premia. La Luz del Creador es una fuerza positiva perfecta, una infinita energía espiritual cuyos únicos atributos son el compartir y el amor infinitos.
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NOT A BOOK (los 72 nombres de DIOS: te ayudan en tu vida (Spanish Edition))
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Formed in 1976 and disbanded in 1980 when lead singer Ian Curtis died by suicide, Joy Division were Manchester’s saddest post-punk goths. Which is saying a lot for a city that also produced The Smiths.
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Sarah Kurchak (I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir)
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bell peppers to meet that requirement and only a little more than 8 calories to go along with it. However, it would take more than 15,000 calories of fried onion rings to meet the recommended 60 milligrams
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Ian K. Smith (EAT: The Effortless Weight Loss Solution)
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There are genuine (gin-u-waaane) shitkickers all over America. Alaska; well, you betcha. Utah. That’s your Mormon central command. The word “moron” is built right in. Upset? Tough shit. An entire city and culture centered around a story about a magic angel who transmigrated to upstate New York, 1800 years after the death of Christ, just to reveal the location of some golden plates that would serve to translate a second gospel, like some Mormon Rosetta Stone? Please. And to whom was this revelation made? Joseph Smith. The L. Ron Hubbard of his day. Yeah, that happened, in reality. Because it’s not possible that Smith was either delusional, or a con artist who made it all up.
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Ian Gurvitz (WELCOME TO DUMBFUCKISTAN: The Dumbed-Down, Disinformed, Dysfunctional, Disunited States of America)
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Who sold her?” “My mom sold her to a man named Trent Smith. We’re originally from Tennessee, and he’s the largest trafficker in the state.” Trent… Smith? “How… how is that possible?” Bradley’s forehead creased as his eyes drooped slightly. “Demi… none of this was a coincidence. Trent Smith works for Ian Ivory. Just like a butcher has an animal-supplier; Ian Ivory has a supplier for trafficked women.
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Monica Arya (The Favorite Girl)
Ian K. Smith (The Unspoken (Ashe Cayne #1))
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But most important, and above all else, was the treatment to which we had been subjected: the breaches of agreements, the double standards, the blatant deception and blackmail with which we were confronted. To put it crudely, we had had an absolute bellyful. Rhodesians simply wished to be left to lead their own lives. And in all honesty it had to be admitted that the Conservatives were as much to blame as Labour.
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Ian Douglas Smith (Bitter Harvest: Zimbabwe and the Aftermath of its Independence)
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I have said we are prepared to bring black people into our government ... But I don't believe in majority rule, black majority rule, not in a thousand years. If it is white one day and black the other, then we have failed.
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Ian Douglas Smith
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From the mid-1970s, Christian organizations would begin to play a more prominent role in international politics, supporting causes associated with America’s resurgent nationalist right. Some worked with the American Security Council to oppose disarmament treaties and defend Ian Smith’s white government in Rhodesia.
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Greg Grandin (Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (American Empire Project))
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notes. I quietly took my place in the
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Ian K. Smith (The Unspoken (Ashe Cayne #1))
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The resurrection is central to how we see salvation. We are not saved just for a purely spiritual experience in heaven. Jesus was raised to earth, not to heaven. We should not confuse the resurrection and the ascension.
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Ian K. Smith (Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World)
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Sickness is a result of the fall, and healing is anticipatory of the new heavens and the new earth; therefore, whether someone works as a nurse, a veterinarian, or a gardener, he or she is not beyond God’s commitment to his creation. The same can be said for many pursuits.
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Ian K. Smith (Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World)
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In the light of our inclination to see land as a commodity, it is not surprising that many of us fail to have a robust theology of the land.
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Ian K. Smith (Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World)
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We know that land is more than a commodity and less than a god. It is to be neither exploited nor worshiped.
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Ian K. Smith (Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World)
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In the Old Testament there are three major exiles: from the garden of Eden, from Egypt, and to Babylon. The return from these exiles helps us to understand the ministry of Jesus.
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Ian K. Smith (Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World)
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Such a view [Two Kingdoms theology] has little place for cultural renewal, social action, or political involvement, as the vessel is doomed to destruction. Such a view leads to the often-heard cry that Christian young people should leave their ambitions for a career in teaching, medicine, law, or politics to do something that has eternal significance!
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Ian K. Smith (Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World)
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[Pentecost] was not the reversal of Babel but its redemption.
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Ian K. Smith (Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World)
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This picture of the enduring nature of purified, human accomplishments is seen in the image of the glory and honor of the nations being brought into the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:24–27; cf. Isa. 23:18). As the dross is separated from the gold, so will be found the purity of human achievements in music, art, literature, architecture, drama, food, agriculture, craft, and so much more.
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Ian K. Smith (Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World)
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He looked at the portrait hung on the wall behind him. It was one of the gallery’s most popular pictures, Guy Kinder’s brooding portrait of the crime writer, Ian Rankin, sitting in the Oxford Bar, the haunt of his fictional Edinburgh detective. Ian Rankin was looking directly at Stuart, making Stuart avert his gaze.
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Alexander McCall Smith (A Promise of Ankles (44 Scotland Street, #14))
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Suddenly you've got a twinkle in your eye," Smith noted.
"Might be the onset of cataracts," Rebus explained. Then: "Bell's definitely from Glasgow?
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Ian Rankin
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the first place you go blind is in the eyes
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Ian C. Smith