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For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough for people to play in our worlds with any frequency. The problem for us is getting people to read and care about our books that much in the first place.

~Catherynne M. Valente

Topics: About Any Books Care Enough Even First First Place Frequency Getting Most Much Never Our People Place Play Popular Problem Read Us Will Worlds Writers

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So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.

~Charles B. Rangel

Topics: Background Buying Checks Could Deaths Ever Expand Firearms First First Place Implemented Individuals John Keep Like Many Measures Place Were

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Acknowledging someone is an act of altruism in the first place, so converting that act of altruism into a pizza party or company fleece jacket or a gift card is fine, but it's not in keeping with spirit in which it all began.

~Charles Best

Topics: Acknowledging Act Altruism Began Card Company Fine First First Place Gift Jacket Keeping Party Pizza Place Someone Spirit Which

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Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: About Because Expression First First Place Integral Listening Much Music Personal Place Pleasure Say Sharing Some Songs Value Why

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Analysts say that one reason Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were privatized in the first place was to prevent political whims from dominating the mortgage marketplace.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Analyst Dominating First First Place Mac Marketplace Mortgage Place Political Prevent Reason Say Were

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Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

~Charles Kennedy

Topics: Ability Able About Background Debts Education Even Everyone Family First First Place Frightened Further Going Huge Learn Off Opportunity Pay Place Regardless See Should Struggling Students University Want Who

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Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.

~Charles Krauthammer

Topics: Beyond Consists Cruel Destructive Doctrine First First Place Imagining Involves Making Nuclear Place Prevent Promising Purpose Retaliation Thinking Threats Unthinkable War

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In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.

~Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

Topics: Almost Among Causes Europeans Everywhere First First Place Malaria Mortality Obstacle Place Principal Regions Takes Tropical

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If the Walkman had, by default, silently contacted your friends and told them what you were listening to, not only would no one have bought a Walkman in the first place, its designers would have been viewed with the utmost suspicion.

~Charlie Brooker

Topics: Been Bought Default Designers First First Place Friends Had Listening Only Place Suspicion Them Utmost Viewed Were Would You Your

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My first place in Nashville was like 'Animal House.' The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.

~Charlie Worsham

Topics: Animal Band Close Ended First First Place House Jam Like Lived Most Nashville Nights Place Roof Sunrise Whole

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