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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are u...

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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture a...

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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

When the image is new, the world is new.

Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new dayd...

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I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held conce...

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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues an...

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We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, ...

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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experien...

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The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-l...

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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unaltera...

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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penali...

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A nation is the same people living in the same place.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into ...

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In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character.In a ma...

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Jo WaltonWhat Makes This Book So Great

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination...

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The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood.

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the...

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The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I a...

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Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a countr...

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But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outsid...

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It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.

I think it's important to approach a house in a way that's reflective of the original environment. M...

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The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the ...

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When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, ...

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It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need ...

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Lawrence DurrellSpirit of Place: Mediterranean Writings edited by A.G.Thomas

The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war -...

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The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.Actually, I know different. And it'...

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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able t...

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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal ...

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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...

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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctua...

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I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've foun...

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Anywhere - and, it follows, nowhere - can be a place. As long as we are there, to think and talk, to...

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Mark KingwellMeasure Yourself Against the Earth: Essays

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...

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The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we wou...

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As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could ...

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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place...

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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he choose...

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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ...

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Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of ...

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Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Ro...

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The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living...

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Paul TherouxGhost Train to the Eastern Star

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry ...

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something miss...

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the pl...

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I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Eu...

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The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the ri...

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All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

Segregation has no place in the education system.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of cre...

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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

It had to be U. U. was the only town I could still bear, the one spot in the atlas I'd already absor...

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is...

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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuade...

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, resp...

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Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last r...

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Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radica...

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A hospital is no place to be sick.

There is no right time and right place for love... it can happen any time.

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place ...

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I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place t...

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Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from t...

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I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend ...

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Happiness is a direction, not a place.

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off fro...

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My imagination is a twisted place.

And any room that I enter may become a sideshow tent where I must take my place upon a rickety old b...

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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place...

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America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles n...

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