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"You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you." »Edward Steichen
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"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both." »Tryon Edwards
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"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self." »French Proverb
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"During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history." »Stephen Ambrose, D-Day, page 577
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"During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history." »Stephen Ambrose
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"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks." »Francis Bacon
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"Wit is the only wall between us and the dark." »Mark van Doren
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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!" »Peter de Jager
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"Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind." »Alfred Victor Vigny
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"You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut." »Sally Berger
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"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes." »Harold B. Lee
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"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it." »Gordon R. Dickson
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"A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb
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"The Berlin wall is the defining achievement of socialism." »George Will
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"Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great wall of China between them!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall." »Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)
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"Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world." »Charles Hanson Towne
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"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon." »Martin Luther
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"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." »Michael Jordon
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"American leaders created a system that allowed a free distribution of wealth and power. People leave their economic class and become richer regardless of their ethnic or national background. Therefore, despite having more diverse people in our society than any other nation, we have more stable national politics. If our elites try to limit the openness of the socioeconomic system, the system will be corrected in any number of forms including civic unrest. When Bush's administration invaded Iraq and bailed out wall Street, the people brought in Obama. When Obama bailed out wall Street again and considered raising the tax on the people, the system brought the Tea Party into power and the ruling party lost control of the Congress. People expressed their anger via peaceful elections." »Med Jones
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"Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate." »Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" -- page 180
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"And thou shalt smite thine enemy even unto the wall, gnashing thy teeth, and he shall grow small in thy mirrors." »Jeff Zurschmeide
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"Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it." »Josiah Gilbert Holland
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"The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life." »R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard
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"There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall." »Colette
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"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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