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• There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Hangover, Night

  "Complete Poems".

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• If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

  John Cotton

  Sea, Liberty, Stones

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• We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation.

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Heart, Forgiving

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• Part of the reason I'm doing Us + Them tour is to play my part in trying to spread the message that cooperation is a better way to resolve conflicts than confrontation. That bridges are better than walls, that nationalism and exceptionalism is destroying our world and destroying our lives.

  Roger Waters

  Trying, World, Cooperation

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don’t know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Get Well, Doors, Kind Thoughts

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2017). “A Little Princess”, p.90, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Lessons, Firsts, Pebbles

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• There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.

  Ryan Adams

  Positive, Happiness, Being Happy

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• If there are no roads you can walk, break down the walls!

  Yoshiki Nakamura

  Breaking Down, Walks, Ifs

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• Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivation, Real, Posters

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• If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Priorities In Life, Effectiveness

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.117, Mango Media Inc.

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• He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Justice, Care, Exclusion

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Creative Unity”, p.61, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

  Elie Wiesel

  Suffering, Cry, Made

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.96, Macmillan

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• The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Education, Learning

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Firsts, Hammers, Unions

  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

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• How do you like to go up in a swing,
  Up in the air so blue?
  Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
  Ever a child can do!
  Up in the air and over the wall,
  Till I can see so wide,
  River and trees and cattle and all
  Over the countryside.
  Till I look down on the garden green,
  Down on the roof so brown-
  Up in the air I go flying again,
  Up in the air and down!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Children, Garden

  A Child's Garden of Verses "The Swing" l. 1 (1885)

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• I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Writing, Light, Shadow

  "The Blind Owl". Book by Sadegh Hedayat, 1958.

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• Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Strong, Prayer

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• But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Dream, Dark, Light

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “Carmilla”, p.32, Xist Publishing

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• You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Self, Doubt, Shadow

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.4, Macmillan

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• We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Architect

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• Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Social, Function, Prisoner

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• You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Life Is Short, Water

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• No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

  Louise Penny

  Mistake, People, Safety

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• Nobody intends to put up a wall!

  Walter Ulbricht

  War, Cold, Cold War

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• A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Self, Envy

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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