My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled kid?Yeah. You could say that.

~ Rick Riordan

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Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I’ve been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I’ve said is…an understatement.

~ Jeaniene Frost

Jeaniene Frost Humor Introduction

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view, truth is a selfless subjectivity.

~ Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun Introduction Philosophy

And it means snapshots, because that's what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of who I was during however many days and weeks it was written. A fictional reflection of my mind fossilized, set in paper and ink, instead of stone. Memorialized, for better or worse. This is who I was, and this, and this, and this, and that, and most times I look back and wince. I'm rarely kind to who I was. But other times, looking back is bittersweet. Sometimes, I'm even grateful to the me of then who left a snapshot for the me of now. Maybe I should let go and join those who pretend the past is past, but it's a falsehood I've never learned to spin.

~ Caitlín R. Kiernan

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Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'.. .. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends called me. 'Well, Mitch it is then,' Morrie says, as if closing a deal. 'And, Mitch?' Yes? 'I hope one day you will think of me as your friend.

~ Mitch Albom

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I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

~ Criss Jami

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But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever.

~ Thomas Pynchon

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This is why introductions are important--because in the beginning, despite the fact that we already believe we know what it means, there's a chance that over time the definition will change from one thing to another.

~ Andrew Kendall

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Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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A man that knows your worth doesn't need to be told how to treat you. That's a given! You won't have to question his feelings, his motives, nor his intentions. How will I know? You ask. See, he will freely show you how he feels and prove it consistently. If you're settling for anything less than what you deserve. Then, maybe you don't even know your worth.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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There's a lot of sex. But it isn't about sex.

~ Peter Milligan

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Your personality should be described in poem not in paragraph.

~ Amit Kalantri

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All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are correct. For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

~ Orson Scott Card

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It is I who drink lonely Drinks at twelve, midnight, in hotels of strange towns, It is I who laugh, it is I who make love And then, feel shame, it is I who lie dying With a rattle in my throat. I am sinner, I am saint. I am the beloved and the Betrayed. I have no joys that are not yours, no Aches which are not yours. I too call myself I.

~ Kamala Suraiyya Das

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As with all new inventions, there are upsides and downsides. The commercial drone is no exception. But until robust safeguards have been introduced to protect personal privacy from prying eyes in the skies, the true benefits to society of unmanned aerial vehicles will remain unrealised.

~ Alex Morritt

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Whether or not the fame of Gilgamesh of Uruk had reached the Aegean – and the idea is attractive – there can be no doubt that it was as great as that of any other hero. In time his name became so much a household word that jokes and forgeries were fathered onto it, as in a popular fraud that survives on eighth-century B.C. tablets which perhaps themselves copy an older text. This is a letter supposed to be written by Gilgamesh to some other king, with commands that he should send improbable quantities of livestock and metals, along with gold and precious stones for an amulet for Enkidu, which would weigh no less that thirty pounds. The joke must have been well received, for it survives in four copies, all from Sultantepe.

~ N.k. Sandars

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Never make a sales pitch as the way you introduce yourself. What you CAN say is how you help people and businesses.

~ Beth Ramsay

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The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I startled jerkily, tripping again, and almost collapsed onto the cold moist ground.

~ Simona Panova

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Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me.

~ Sarah J. Maas

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The universe is amply supplied with night.

~ Neil Gaiman

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Today I introduced myself to my very own Heart,In silent agony, after all these years it bled apart.

~ Ankita Singhal

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The upper management team had informed me that an employee that worked for me was a poor performer and would be terminated soon. This employee was clearly displaying mental health issues that were causing problems in the workplace. When I followed the company procedures and reported this to human resources, their response was to inform me that my contract would not be renewed and I would be immediately fired if anyone complained about me. This was my introduction to how mental health issues are handled in the USA.

~ Steven Magee

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We are good at stories. We hoard them, like an old woman in a room full of boxes, but now and then we pull out our best, and spread them out. We talk of the bad years when the cotton didn't open, and the day my cousin Wanda was washed in the Blood. We buff our beloved ancestors until they are smooth of sin, and give our scoundrels a hard shake, although sometimes we can't remember exactly which is who.

~ Rick Bragg

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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

~ Orson Scott Card

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The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the doctrine of self-interest as the rule of his actions, without understanding the science which puts it to use; and his selfishness is no less blind than was formerly his devotedness to others. If society is tranquil, it is not because it is conscious of its strength and its well-being, but because it fears its weakness and its infirmities; a single effort may cost it its life. Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure. The desires, the repinings, the sorrows, and the joys of the present time lead to no visible or permanent result, like the passions of old men, which terminate in impotence.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

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The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- A Clockwork Orange Resucked intro to first full American version 1986

~ Anthony Burgess

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We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.

~ William Carlos Williams

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Metal business cards are a good investment. Especially if you were to meet Magneto. He would have no other choice but to be attracted to you.

~ Ryan Lilly

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I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.

~ R. Y.s. Perez

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The introduction of new technology is always disruptive to existing markets, particularly to content/copyright owners who sell through well-established distribution channels.

~ Steve Blank

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

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