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"What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider." »Damon Runyon
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"Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit." »Jerry Coleman
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"Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus." »Jerry Coleman
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"Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks." »Laura Swenson
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"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere!" »Worry
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"When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever." »Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
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"You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." »Stephen King
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"If the captain invited me to his party, after he had whipped me earlier in the day, up on deck, I guess I'd go, but I'd try to find some excuse to leave early." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas." »Rolfe Neill
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"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in." »Helen Hayes
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"America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair." »Arnold Toynbee
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"To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense." »Napoleon I
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"If it had got four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and it flies, but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. (commenting on Chinese eating habits at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund coference)" »Prince Phillip
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"Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem." »William Shakespeare
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"When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well" »John Milton
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"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." »Eliel Saarinen
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"We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith." »Real Live Preacher
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"We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God's existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith." »Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
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