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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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"wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts." »Kahlil Gibran
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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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"Hark! here the sound of lute so sweet, And there the voice of wailing loud; Here scholars grave in conclave meet, There howls the brawling drunken crowd; Here, charming maidens full of glee, There, tottering, withered dames we see. Such light! Such shade! I cannot tell, If here we live in heaven or hell." »Bhartrihari
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"Wit is the only wall between us and the dark." »Mark van Doren
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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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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind." »Alfred Victor Vigny
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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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"A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb
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"You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut." »Sally Berger
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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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"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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"The Berlin wall is the defining achievement of socialism." »George Will
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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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"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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"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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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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"I am sailing out along parallel 32.5 to stress that this is the Libyan border. This is the line of death where we shall stand and fight with our backs to the wall. (On planning confrontation with US Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean)" »Muammar Qaddafi
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