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A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which was constantly re-Africanized by fresh arrivals. To that plantation culture, the music of our hemisphere owes no small debt.

Ned Sublette

Years, Lasts, Culture

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A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

Stuart Woods

Ambitious, Firsts, Talent

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Only nine States have been represented since my arrival till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

William Whipple

Business, Important, Three

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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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Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

Henri Matisse

Art, Prison, Artist

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Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want.

Danielle LaPorte

Space, Want, Inevitable

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Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.

Laurent Jalabert

Team, Climbing, Hiking

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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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Pantaenus was one of these and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there who knew of Christ, he found the Gospel according to Matthew, which had anticipated his own arrival. For Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached to them, and left with them the writing of Matthew in the Hebrew language, which they had preserved till that time. After many good deeds, Pantaenus finally became the head of the school at Alexandria, and expounded the treasures of divine doctrine both orally and in writing.

Eusebius

School, Writing, Doctrine

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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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She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.

William Gibson

Moving, White, Feet

William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.8, Penguin

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As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.

David Nicholls

Thailand, Littles, Too Much

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The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.

Che Guevara

Mean, Journey, Thinking

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Several of them were discussing this in low tones as they waited for Halt to arrive - until they realized that he was already among them. They weren't used to this. Kings were supposed to sweep into a room majestically - not suddenly appear without anyone seeing their arrival.

John Flanagan

Kings, Rooms, Tone

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I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

Marilynne Robinson

Apology, Expectations, Waiting

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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

Rosamunde Pilcher

Disappointment, Desolation, Hopefully

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Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Octavio Paz

Waiting

Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger (1991). “The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987”, p.171, New Directions Publishing

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Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.

C.P. Cavafy

Journey, Mind, Destined

Constantine P. Cavafy, “Ithaca”

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The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Thinking, Feminism, Modern Woman

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We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.

Flannery O'Connor

Fall, Reality, Opposites

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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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Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.

Mark Victor Hansen

Inspirational, Positive, Optimistic

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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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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 return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

C. S. Lewis

Past, Tea, Four

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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