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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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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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
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The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances. ... Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.
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I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.
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Being alive is just a brief technicality. (p. 167)
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Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.
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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.
