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• The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.

  Bob Beauprez

  Oil, Discovery, Europe

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• There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

  Ronald Reagan

  Honesty, Real, Rocks

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

  Allen Ginsberg

  Skulls, Imagination, Brain

  Philip Glass, Allen Ginsberg (1990). “Hydrogen jukebox”

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• What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don’t yet have?

  Priscilla Shirer

  Character, Trying, Want

  Priscilla Shirer, Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2015). “The Resolution for Women, LeatherTouch”, p.22, B&H Publishing Group

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• I can't believe 50 years have gone by since that film was released. I blinked and suddenly here I am. We all really felt blessed and as for me; how lucky can a girl get. Great music does more than enhance a film, it cements our memories in the film going experience.

  Julie Andrews

  Girl, Memories, Believe

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• The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted with care in order to form a perfect union of the powdered cement, sand and water. This can be best accomplished by the use of the New England corn hoe on a board floor or by beating with a hand stamper; not much labour is required if properly applied. Mechanics can judge when the mixture is perfect by the appearance of the mortar, which, when properly prepared, very much resembles putty.

  Canvass White

  Engineering, Hands, Order

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• I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as it were with concrete and cement, and that the so-called romantic is like an unfenced garden in and out of which truth can wander at will.

  Joseph Roth

  Believe, Moving, Garden

  Joseph Roth (2002). “The Emperor's Tomb”, p.47, The Overlook Press

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• From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.

  Jerry Lewis

  Fall, Taken, Two

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• But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons

  Dave Eggers

  Children, Cities, San Francisco

  Dave Eggers (2000). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”

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• Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

  Boethius

  Stars, Heart, Order

  Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Believe, Tag, Family Friends

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• The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it.

  Drake

  Humble, Games, Hip Hop

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• When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of prejudice and fixed ideas, when all the time it is more likely that the machine which contains them is only an elaborate cement-mixer, and when the thinking is finished, those whirling thoughts are smoothed into the unchanged conventional mould and seeing them set solid enough to dance, to build, to travel upon, we would never dream of their first deceit, of the hope once roused by their apparently violent reorganisation.

  Janet Frame

  Dream, Thinking, Ideas

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• Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  People, Together, Blank

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.113, Bantam

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• You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Wall, Tears, Want

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• Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement

  Oliver Sacks

  Social, Bonding, Primal

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• The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle . . . If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.

  Canvass White

  Engineering, Quality, Cracks

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• No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.

  Betty Smith

  Sky, People, Tree

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months.

  Canvass White

  Engineering, Two, Doe

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• To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient quantity of water to make it (by well mixing and working) about the consistency of a soft putty. It is then fit to use but should not be kept more than six or eight hours and should be thoroughly worked just before it is used.

  Canvass White

  Eight, Engineering, Water

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• Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.

  Pope John Paul II

  Catholic, Honor, Foundation

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• With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you know a bus is coming at you, but you don't know when. You think you can hear it rumbling, but you have a lot of time to think. And so you just don't live that moment of the bus hitting you until it happens. There's all kinds of room in that space.

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Shoes, Space

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.

  Kristin Hannah

  Patterns, Way, Hardened

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away”, p.279, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Love, Beach, Fall

  1968 'The Great American Frustration', in the Saturday Review, 9 Jul.

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• People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.

  Nathaniel Philbrick

  Wall, Ocean, Inspiration

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