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"A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice." »Shana Alexander
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"I was the kid next door's imaginary friend." »Emo Phillips
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"Dawson Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did it the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place. Dogged as many girls as I could while I was stuck in this place." »Dazed and Confused
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"Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter." »Oliver Goldsmith
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"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary." »Franklin P. Adams
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"No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage." »Athenus
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"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »H. L. Mencken
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »H.L. Mencken
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"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist." »Aaron Machado
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"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." »Harriet
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"Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time." »Willie Tyler
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"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place." »Cicero
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"If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there" »Jerry Stahl
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"House is a place where you live in, but home is a place where you belong" »The Omani Shed
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"Why is the place you drive on is a parkway, and the place you park on is the driveway?" »Charles Lauller
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"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place." »Cicero
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"Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage." »John Oliver Hobbes
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"A small town is a place where there is no place to go where you shouldn't." »Burt Bacharach
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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation." »Walter Winchell
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"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain." »Mary Catherine Bateson
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"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me." »Walt Whitman
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"Whenever I need to get away,'' I just get away in my mind. I go to my imaginary spot, where the beach is perfect and the water is perfect and the weather is perfect. The only bad thing there are the flies. They're terrible" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself." »Holly Lisle
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"The future is no place to place your better days." »Dave Matthews, "Cry Freedom"
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"In a mirror, last place becomes first place... Just depends on how you wish to look at it." »Debbie Skelly
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