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		I went to Coachella once, and it was only to go see Leonard Cohen. I got in the car and sat through all the crazy traffic in L.A. to get there - instead of a two hour drive, it takes, like, six hours. Then I watched his set and turned around and left. I just so wanted to see him perform in the desert.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hannah Simone
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Billy Connolly
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I like to be with my partner in the bed, to ride my Norton - and maybe it doesn't like me, and that's why I'm on the floor so often -, to play sports, to be with my friends and chat. And nature. It's wonderful to be lost in the desert, or between the waves over a surf board. I'm a life lover.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Keanu Reeves
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pat Buchanan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Palmer Luckey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lord Byron
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donald Miller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Copperfield
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Angela Merici
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In the desert a fountain is springing,In the wide waste there still is a tree,And a bird in the solitude singing,Which speaks to my spirit of thee.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lord Byron
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		So extravagant is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees,... .
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Muir
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bertrand Piccard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Annie Jacobsen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mary Hunter Austin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paolo Bacigalupi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Louisa May Alcott
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ellsworth Huntington
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Freya Stark