Robert Frost Quotes
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!
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What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.
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I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.
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The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification, distributed print.
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
