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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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"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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"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it" »G. B. Shaw
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"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go" »William Feather
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"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." »William Feather
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"If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay." »Robert Joseph Bob Dole
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"hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted." »Fred Allen
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"Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging." »Samuel Johnson
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"hanging is too good for a man who makes puns he should be drawn and quoted." »Fred Allen
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"Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails." »H. L. Mencken
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"In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet." »Erma Bombeck
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"I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. (To Prime Minister Harold Wilson)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Wit is the only wall between us and the dark." »Mark van Doren
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"Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind." »Alfred Victor Vigny
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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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"You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut." »Sally Berger
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"A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb
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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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"It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts." »R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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"If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?" »Mark Twain
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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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"Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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