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• Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

  Jim Elliot

  Son, Grieving, Vision

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• From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

  John Hoeven

  Country, Veterans Day, War

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• New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

  Simeon Strunsky

  New York, Mountain, United States

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• Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Use, Should

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [561]

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• In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

  Shimon Peres

  Creativity, Technology, Land

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• If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

  Anne Lamott

  Uplifting, Ocean, Blessing

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• I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah, where the Colorado River cuts through sandstone and the geologic history of the Earth is exposed: our home in Castle Valley.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Cutting, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It's a Path of joy. It's a Path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert. It is a valley of flowers

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Flower, Love Is, Dancing

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• You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

  Anna Friel

  Eye, Islands, Years

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

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• Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Work, Lifelong, Trusted

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• Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

  Gregory Bateson

  Sea, People, Forests

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• You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

  Connie Brockway

  Country, Egypt, Romance

  Connie Brockway (2010). “As You Desire: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, p.117, Loveswept

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• It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's all done.

  Ruben Martinez

  Simple, Soul, Age

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

  Peter O'Toole

  Travel, Military, Nine

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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  C. S. Lewis

  Respect, Book, Healing

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• From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Winter, Iraq, Soldier

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• What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is it finite, or is it infinite? Which of the following does space resemble more: (a) a sheet of paper, (b) an endless desert, (c) a soap bubble, (d) a doughnut, (e) an Escher drawing, (f) an ice cream cone, (g) the branches of a tree, or (h) a human body?

  Rudy Rucker

  Science, Drawing, Space

  Rudy von Bitter Rucker, Rudy Rucker (1985). “The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]

  Osbert Sitwell

  Jesus, Shots, Forty

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• The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn that mutualism between autotrophic and heterotrophic components, and between producers and consumers in the societal realm, coupled with efficient recycling of materials and use of energy, are the keys to maintaining prosperity in a world of limited resources.

  Eugene Odum

  Men, Keys, Oasis

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• When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

  Anton Chekhov

  Each Day, World, Cash

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, August 18, 1893.

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• In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

  Maurice Jarre

  Stay Strong, Men, Long

  "Maurice Jarre" by Patrick O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2009.

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• During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

  Jim C. Walton

  War, Moving, Technology

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• As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air

  Samuel Garth

  Rocks, Air, Fleeting

  Sir Samuel Garth, Samuel Johnson (1807). “The Poetical Works of Sir Samuel Garth: With the Life of the Author, by Samuel Johnson”, p.44

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• People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

  Antonia Fraser

  Book, Hands, People

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• Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.

  Will Rogers

  Animal, Long, Water

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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