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• We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Way, Danger

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• I love trains. I dont even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but theyre not.

  Tim Rice

  Stupid, Class, Names

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• Look back. Look back at me." Richard Armitage spoke this line in the movie North and South as he watched Miss Hale drive away in a carriage.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Missing, Looks, Lines

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• Oh yeah people recognize me, but the craziest thing? I mean I've had the normal autographs ... but I had to sign a baby's carriage once. I thought that was weird, so yeah, I guess that's the craziest thing.

  Terrence J

  Baby, Mean, People

  "Next Factor Q&A: 'Think Like A Man' Star Terrence J". Interview with Jade Leach, www.mtv.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sex, Courtship, Delicate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.317, Penguin

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• Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do! I'm half crazy, all for the love of you! It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two!

  Harry Dacre

  Love, Sweet, Crazy

  "Daisy Bell" (song) (1892)

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• Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Inspiration, Support, Doe

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• I've thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I've never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they're moving.

  Johnny Depp

  Moving, Two, Influence

  "Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Rob Marshall and Jerry Bruckheimer Interview PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 17,2011.

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• The reason we'd stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom. Whoever was charged with making the announcement momentarily lost all sense of procedure and we got this tantalizing glimpse into the chaos on the trains, and all we could hear was (bangs on microphone) "Gary, it's burning, what we gonna do?!" And everyone on the carriage just cheered, "Hooray! We're rubbish!"

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Fire

  "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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• In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Views, Small Villages

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• The majority of Latinos in this country are 28 years old or younger. All of those people out there attacking the Latino community, when you see a Latino going down the street with a baby carriage and a couple of children walking beside them, they should say 'Hey, there goes my social security and my Medicare.' Those are the people that are going to contribute to keep our social security system funded and our medical system funded.

  Dolores Huerta

  Country, Baby, Children

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.

  Emmett Shear

  Horse, Thinking, Want

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• Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Peace, Men

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.3, Dial Press

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• Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Body, Mysterious

  Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.145

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• I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me.

  Charles Darwin

  Joy, Remember, Spots

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being.

  Lynne Truss

  Long, Messages, Texting

  "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.

  Leslie Moonves

  Horse, Hands, Our World

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• The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.

  William Dean Howells

  Running, Tired, Science

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• The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health.

  Havelock Ellis

  Character, Eye, Expression

  Havelock Ellis (2004). “Studies in the Psychology of Sex”, p.222, Ebookslib

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• A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.

  Oliver Evans

  Running, Morning, New York

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• Ten strong horses could not pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other.

  John Wooden

  Baby, Strong, Horse

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• Dinocrates did not leave the king, but followed him into Egypt. There Alexander, observing a harbor rendered safe by nature, an excellent center for trade, cornfields throughout all Egypt, and the great usefulness of the mighty river Nile, ordered him to build the city of Alexandria, named after the king. This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Kings, Egypt, Cities

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Introduction, Section 4,

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• Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Hair, Flames, White

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• MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Clothes, Dinner

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

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• If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.

  Diana Vreeland

  Morning, Differences, Long

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