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• In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Plato, Writing, Media

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• The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?

  V. P. Singh

  Powerful, People, Way

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• Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Two, Iraq

  "U.S. Preparing to Handover Former Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein". CNN live with Kyra Phillips, edition.cnn.com. June 28, 2004.

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• Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

  David Crystal

  Technology, People, Mind

  "2b or not 2b?" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Angel, Hands

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• O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
  To spend that shortness basely were too long,
  If life did ride upon a dial's point,
  Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Long, Gentleman

  1596-7 Hotspur. Henry IV Part One, act 5, sc.2, l.81-4.

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• Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.

  Albert Einstein

  Russia, Lakes, Understanding

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• In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Ideas, Community, India

  V.S. Naipaul (2010). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.239, Vintage

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• Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

  Robert Graves

  Cutting, Fit, Trenches

  Robert Graves (1980). “Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.

  Jim Shepard

  Boys, Unhappy, Unseen

  Jim Shepard (2008). “Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories”, p.130, Vintage

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• The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Exercise, Drug, Twenties

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• Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Dream, Sex, Sight

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• Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Men, Enemy, Desire

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories - Bilingual Edition (English / French): An Adventure in Paris, Boule de Suif, Rust, Marroca, The Log, The Relic, Words of Love, Christmas Eve, Two Friends, Am I Insane?...”, p.76, e-artnow

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• An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps, of all the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead on arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take.

  Howard Cosell

  New York, Cities, Games

  "Monday Night Football", December 08, 1980.

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• Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.

  Coco Chanel

  Departure, Perfume

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• Every instance since the beginning of time has been a coincidence: A leaf in a tree embodies the combined efforts of the earth, water, wind, stars, and sunshine. When you realize that everything has led to the present, to this moment, you see there's nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be burdened by. The present moment is the moment of arrival - and it took the entire universe to create it. All is as it should be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Sunshine, Wind

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• Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Song, Simple, Survival

  Song: Part Of The Plan, Album: Souvenirs, 1974

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• Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Texas, Cooking

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• If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

  Crystal Eastman

  Baby, Feminist, Pieces

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.

  Preston Sturges

  Girl, Dog, Baby

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The first priority will consist in restoring a sense of the acceptance of life as a gift from God. According to both Sacred Scripture and the wisest traditions of your continent, the arrival of a child is always a gift, a blessing from God. Today it is high time to place greater emphasis on this: every human being, every tiny human person, however weak, is created 'in the image and likeness of God' (Gen 1:27)

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Acceptance, Blessing

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• Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.

  Nancy Mairs

  Girl, Children, Cat

  Nancy Mairs (1992). “Plaintext”, University of Arizona Press

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• "And now you have joy?" "I do indeed." "And how did you get it?" "I chose it, admitted it into my life, then I celebrated its arrival in my heart. I made my celebration so loud and boisterous, I prohibited all gloom from attending the celebration".

  Calvin Miller

  Life, Heart, Joy

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• I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.

  J. A. Baker

  Smell, Water, Silence

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• I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, Learning, Eggs

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.138, Rowman & Littlefield

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