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"When people say that the desert is lifeless, it just makes me want to grab them by the collar and yell, 'Why you stupid, stupid bastard' Then I drive them out into the desert to where the circus is, and point out the many forms of zebra and clown life." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"All sunshine makes the desert." »Arab Proverb
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"All sunshine makes a desert." »Arabic Proverb
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"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert." »Kahlil Gibran
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"In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance." »Ling Po, (Chinese, 701-762)
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"For the desert, a camel is better than a horse. - On Situational Leadership; Stamina vs. Speed" »Med Jones
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"Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in his car and keep driving." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus." »Alfred Victor Vigny
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"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil" »Golda Meir
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"Make no mistake about it: Operation desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war." »Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
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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, Stanzas to Augusta
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"Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny." »Unknown
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"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." »Carl Schurz
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"Ideals are like stars you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." »Carl Schurz
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"Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." »Carl Schurz
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"A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing." »Sydney Smith
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"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed." »Sydney Smith
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"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed." »Sydney Smith
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"Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood." »Tyron Edwards
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"For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference." »Alan Valentine
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"America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world." »Dinesh D'Souza
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"Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"The house made of ice in the middle of a desert! And that house is the house of lies!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Have you ever felt a desert-like lonliness, facing all the lions, hyenas and snakes of your imagination, with no weapon, no partner, nothing but silent, ugly, harmful aloe vera plants all around you? Giving up will only means death, while fighting, means death too.." »The wise Pharoah Moe
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"The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night." »Jean Baudrillard
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"But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition." »John Owen
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"Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes." »James Arthur Baldwin
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