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We’re still in the U.S. if that helps,” the young man says. “But like I said, you’re not in Kansas anymore. You’re off the map, down the rabbit hole, and so far through the looking glass that going back… well, that probably won’t ever happen, Celestra.” - Jack Simple, FADE by Kailin Gow
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Kailin Gow (Fade (Fade, #1))
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Where am I?” I ask. “Where are my parents and my brother? Where’s my home? And who are you?”
He blinks a couple of times before smiling faintly as though something has just amused him. “I’m afraid you’re not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy.”
Wizard of Oz references? I’m somewhere, I don’t know where, and that’s the best I get? Well, I’m not some dumb little girl willing to put up with that, and he certainly isn’t any kind of wizard. - Celestra Caine, FADE by Kailin Gow
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Kailin Gow (FADE OMNIBUS (Books 1 through 4) (Kailin Gow's FADE Series Book 5))
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Your mathematics seem to me very like a bottle of mixed pickles the more you fish for what you want the less chance you have of getting it.
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L. Frank Baum (Oz: The Complete Collection (includes All of the 14 books in The oz Series) (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz))
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It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh,' said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, 'for you must sleep, and eat, and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.
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L. Frank Baum (Wizard of Oz (Play-A-Sound Series))
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I am on-ly a ma-chine,” said Tiktok. “I cannot be kind an-y more than I can be sor-ry or glad. I can on-ly do what I am wound up to do.
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L. Frank Baum (Ozma Of Oz (Oz series Book 3))
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Brains," remarked Cap'n Bill, "is of all kinds and work different ways. But I've noticed that them as thinks that their brains is best is often mistook.
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L. Frank Baum (Complete Works of L. Frank Baum "American Author of Children's Books"! 45 Complete Works (American Fairy Tales, Aunt Jane's Nieces Series, Wizard of Oz Series, Mother Goose in Prose) (Annotated))
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I find I learn much more by traveling than by staying at home.
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L. Frank Baum (The Patchwork Girl of Oz(The Oz Series Book 7) Annotated)
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But I have noticed that those who continually dread ill luck and fear it will overtake them, have no time to take advantage of any good fortune that comes their way.
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L. Frank Baum (The Patchwork Girl of Oz(The Oz Series Book 7) Annotated)
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I like to do everything proper, for it saves one a lot of trouble.
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L. Frank Baum (The Patchwork Girl of Oz(The Oz Series Book 7) Annotated)
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Why didn't the Eskimo keep it?" she asked, looking at the Magnet with interest. "He got tired of being loved and longed for some one to hate him. So he gave me the Magnet and the very next day a grizzly bear ate him." "Wasn't he sorry then?" she inquired. "He didn't say," replied the shaggy man,
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L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz Series)
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That wall," explained the Shaggy Man, "is what is called an optical illusion. It is quite real while you have your eyes open, but if you are not looking at it the barrier doesn't exist at all. It's the same way with many other evils in life; they seem to exist, and yet it's all seeming and not true.
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L. Frank Baum (Complete Works of L. Frank Baum "American Author of Children's Books"! 45 Complete Works (American Fairy Tales, Aunt Jane's Nieces Series, Wizard of Oz Series, Mother Goose in Prose) (Annotated))
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That is the College of Art and Athletic Perfection," replied Ozma. "I had it built quite recently, and the Woggle-Bug is its president. It keeps him busy, and the young men who attend the college are no worse off than they were before. You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
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L. Frank Baum (Complete Works of L. Frank Baum "American Author of Children's Books"! 45 Complete Works (American Fairy Tales, Aunt Jane's Nieces Series, Wizard of Oz Series, Mother Goose in Prose) (Annotated))
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Tiktok in her pocket, so it would not get lost again.
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L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz Series)
L. Frank Baum (THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ – Complete 16 Book Collection (Fantasy Classics Series): The most Beloved Children's Books about the Adventures in the Magical Land of Oz)
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when you marry a girl, you marry the inside as well as the outside
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L. Frank Baum (The Oz Series: The Complete Collection of 24 Books: Including the Lost Books of Oz, Illustrated and Annotated)
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I wondered if I were blown to Oz with my dog, what would we ask the wizard for? Hmmm. Brains? I’ve got plenty. Courage? Butterscotch is scared of nothing! A heart? We’ve got lots of heart, me and my pup. So what would I ask for? I’d like to sing like the Cowardly Lion and dance like the Tin Man. Neither one of them did those things very well, but that would be good enough for me.
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Sharon M. Draper (Out of My Mind (The Out of My Mind Series))
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the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.
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L. Frank Baum (Oz, The Complete Paperback Collection: Volumes 1,2,3,4 & 5 (Includes all 15 titles of the original Oz series))
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that is a great mistake. There were only four witches in all the Land of Oz, and two of them, those who live in the North and the South, are good witches. I know this is true, for I am one of them myself, and cannot be mistaken.
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L. Frank Baum (The Oz Series: The Complete Collection of 24 Books: Including the Lost Books of Oz, Illustrated and Annotated)
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We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways--because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong. Ozma thinks that one who has committed a fault did so because he was not strong and brave; therefore she puts him in prison to make him strong and brave. When that is accomplished he is no longer a prisoner, but a good and loyal citizen and everyone is glad that he is now strong enough to resist doing wrong. You see, it is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.
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L. Frank Baum (Complete Works of L. Frank Baum "American Author of Children's Books"! 45 Complete Works (American Fairy Tales, Aunt Jane's Nieces Series, Wizard of Oz Series, Mother Goose in Prose) (Annotated))
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A 12 oz beverage can of "American Air." Emblazoned with an American flag that circles the can, notably displaying 48 stars instead of 50. A small caption on the back of the can reads as follows: "A real patriot knows not to breathe the same air as communists. A real patriot remembers. Let your love of freedom breathe freely, with American Air™." As expected, the can contains somewhat stale but otherwise normal air.
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SCP Foundation (SCP Series One Field Manual (SCP Field Manuals Book 1))
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During the 2016 US presidential campaign, the hatred shown toward Hillary Clinton far outstripped even the most virulent criticisms that could legitimately be pinned on her. She was linked with “evil” and widely compared to a witch, which is to say that she was attacked as a woman, not as a political leader. After her defeat, some of those critics dug out the song “Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead,” sung in The Wizard of Oz to celebrate the Witch of the East’s death—a jingle already revived in the UK at the time of Margaret Thatcher’s death in 2013. This reference was brandished not only by Donald Trump’s electors, but also by supporters of Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s main rival in the primaries. On Sanders’ official site, a fundraising initiative was announced under the punning title “Bern the Witch”—an announcement that the Vermont senator’s campaign team took down as soon as it was brought to his attention. Continuing this series of limp quips, the conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh quipped, “She’s a witch with a capital B”—he can’t have known that, at the Salem witch trials in the seventeenth century, a key figure had already exploited this consonance by calling his servant, Sarah Churchill, who was one of his accusers, “bitch witch.” In reaction, female Democrat voters started sporting badges calling themselves “Witches for Hillary” or “Hags for Hillary.”48
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Mona Chollet (In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial)
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All the many successes and extraordinary accomplishments of the Gemini still left NASA’s leadership in a quandary. The question voiced in various expressions cut to the heart of the problem: “How can we send men to the moon, no matter how well they fly their ships, if they’re pretty helpless when they get there? We’ve racked up rendezvous, docking, double-teaming the spacecraft, starting, stopping, and restarting engines; we’ve done all that. But these guys simply cannot work outside their ships without exhausting themselves and risking both their lives and their mission. We’ve got to come up with a solution, and quick!” One manned Gemini mission remained on the flight schedule. Veteran Jim Lovell would command the Gemini 12, and his space-walking pilot would be Buzz Aldrin, who built on the experience of the others to address all problems with incredible depth and finesse. He took along with him on his mission special devices like a wrist tether and a tether constructed in the same fashion as one that window washers use to keep from falling off ledges. The ruby slippers of Dorothy of Oz couldn’t compare with the “golden slippers” Aldrin wore in space—foot restraints, resembling wooden Dutch shoes, that he could bolt to a work station in the Gemini equipment bay. One of his neatest tricks was to bring along portable handholds he could slap onto either the Gemini or the Agena to keep his body under control. A variety of space tools went into his pressure suit to go along with him once he exited the cabin. On November 11, 1966, the Gemini 12, the last of its breed, left earth and captured its Agena quarry. Then Buzz Aldrin, once and for all, banished the gremlins of spacewalking. He proved so much a master at it that he seemed more to be taking a leisurely stroll through space than attacking the problems that had frustrated, endangered, and maddened three previous astronauts and brought grave doubts to NASA leadership about the possible success of the manned lunar program. Aldrin moved down the nose of the Gemini to the Agena like a weightless swimmer, working his way almost effortlessly along a six-foot rail he had locked into place once he was outside. Next came looping the end of a hundred-foot line from the Agena to the Gemini for a later experiment, the job that had left Dick Gordon in a sweatbox of exhaustion. Aldrin didn’t show even a hint of heavy breathing, perspiration, or an increased heartbeat. When he spoke, his voice was crisp, sharp, clear. What he did seemed incredibly easy, but it was the direct result of his incisive study of the problems and the equipment he’d brought from earth. He also made sure to move in carefully timed periods, resting between major tasks, and keeping his physical exertion to a minimum. When he reached the workstation in the rear of the Gemini, he mounted his feet and secured his body to the ship with the waist tether. He hooked different equipment to the ship, dismounted other equipment, shifted them about, and reattached them. He used a unique “space wrench” to loosen and tighten bolts with effortless skill. He snipped wires, reconnected wires, and connected a series of tubes. Mission Control hung on every word exchanged between the two astronauts high above earth. “Buzz, how do those slippers work?” Aldrin’s enthusiastic voice came back like music. “They’re great. Great! I don’t have any trouble positioning my body at all.” And so it went, a monumental achievement right at the end of the Gemini program. Project planners had reached all the way to the last inch with one crucial problem still unsolved, and the man named Aldrin had whipped it in spectacular fashion on the final flight. Project Gemini was
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Alan Shepard (Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon)
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Best known as Glinda, the good witch in The Wizard of Oz (and as the wife of Ziegfeld), Billie Burke had a rosy, upbeat series promoting herself as “that bright morning star.” She portrayed a woman of uncertain age who would go out of her way to aid a bum in distress or help neighborhood kids get a playground. She constantly mixed metaphors, as in “Let sleeping dogs gather no moss,” and was well placed on Saturday mornings.
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John Dunning (On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio)
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about my No. 1 goal and decide which three things I’m going to do on this day to move closer toward reaching it. For example, at the time of this writing, my No. 1 goal is to deepen the love and intimacy in my marriage. Each morning I plan three things I can do to make sure that my wife feels loved, respected, and beautiful. When I get up, I put on a pot of coffee, and while it’s brewing, I do a series of stretches for about ten minutes—something I picked up from Dr. Oz. If you’ve lifted weights your whole life as I have, you get stiff. I realized that the only way I was going to incorporate more stretching into my life was to make it a routine. I had to figure out where in my schedule I could stick it in—and while the coffee’s brewing is as good a time as any. Once I’ve stretched and poured my cup, I sit in my comfy leather recliner, set my iPhone for thirty minutes (no more, no less), and read something positive and instructional. When the alarm sounds, I take my most important project and
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Darren Hardy (The Compound Effect)
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Alan Butler & Christopher Knight state in their book 'The Hiram Key' that the Star Families brought forth the unit 'avoirdupois pound' which equals to 16 Oz and that Thomas Jefferson was the first to note that 1,000 lbs fill a cubic foot. I therefore believe that the reason behind such a choice was, the same Temperature level of 16 in which the water density takes its place at about 0.9988.
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Ibrahim Ibrahim (The Mill of Egypt: The Complete Series Fused)
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The list of Hollywood blockbusters that conform to the hero’s journey paradigm is almost innumerable. Just off the top of my head? The Wizard of Oz; The Matrix; Jaws; the Star Wars films; Titanic; Braveheart; the Harry Potter series; Rocky; The Lord of the Rings; The Lion King; Finding Nemo; Forrest Gump; The Incredibles; Silence of the Lambs; Mulan; Gladiator; Aladdin; Indiana Jones; Beauty and the Beast; and Dances with Wolves/Avatar (watch them back-to-back).
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Will Smith (Will)
L. Frank Baum (Oz, The Complete Paperback Collection: Volumes 1,2,3,4 & 5 (Includes all 15 titles of the original Oz series))
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Near the end of the story, Dorothy feels hopeless. The great and powerful Oz was not the answer after all. She still hasn’t found her way home. With a gentle smile Glinda tells her that she’s had the power within to go home all along. The scarecrow says, “Then why didn’t you tell her before?” Glinda replies, “Because she wouldn’t have believed me. She had to learn it for herself.” As this thought sinks into Dorothy’s mind her experience changes.
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Jackie Jones (All Peace No Pieces: A Course in Miracles' Take on "the World" (The Wisdom Series™ Book 1))
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Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated,
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L•弗兰克•鲍姆 (绿野仙踪:THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ (英文原版) (Holybird New Classics))
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You know that feeling you get, when the sky has turned green, air raid sirens are blowing, the theme to the "Wizard of Oz" wafts softly through the air, your neighbor has just blown by backwards on her bicycle, and an ominous funnel cloud is hovering on the horizon?
Yeah, that feeling. the one that says that says "A picnic! That's what I need to do right about now! What could possible go wrong?
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Amy Petrie Shaw (The Tao of the Dippy Cat: A Series of Uncomfortable Incidents and Horrible Happenings)
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All donkeys are born wise," was the reply, "so the only school we need is the school of experience. Books are only for those who know nothing, and so are obliged to learn things from other people.
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L. Frank Baum (The Road to Oz [with Biographical Introduction] (Oz series Book 5))
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8 oz block of cream cheese
1 - 25 oz jar of spaghetti sauce
1 pound of ground Italian sausage, cooked
1 tsp. garlic salt
2 - 12 oz. bags frozen (or homemade) tortellini, thawed and cooked
1 cup shredded parmesan cheese
1-1/2 cups mozzarella cheese Directions: -Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
-Place 8 oz block of cream cheese in the bottom of a greased 9x13 baking dish.
-Pour entire jar of spaghetti sauce over block of cream cheese and into baking dish.
-Sprinkle the pound of cooked Italian sausage over the top of the spaghetti sauce.
-Place baking dish in oven for ten minutes, until cream cheese softens.
-While cream cheese softens in the oven, thaw and cook tortellini (per package directions).
-Once cream cheese softens, remove baking dish from oven, add garlic salt and stir ingredients until blended.
-Drain tortellini and add to spaghetti / pasta sauce mixture.
-Add one cup shredded parmesan cheese.
-Stir into tortellini / sauce mixture until blended.
-Top with mozzarella cheese.
-Place back inside oven for 20-30 minutes (until bubbly and brown) *A special thanks to Alix Cothran, my Savannah expert, who shared this baked tortellini recipe with me!
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Hope Callaghan (Hotshot in Savannah (Made in Savannah Mystery Series Book 18))