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• Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Fun, Sleep

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• This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Science, Men

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and I went, 'Gee, I like that.' Another one was "Lodi", which I thought sounded really cool. I got this cheap little empty plastic notebook at my local drugstore, and bought a little slab of filler paper and the very first title I wrote in it was "Proud Mary". I had no idea what that title meant.

  John Fogerty

  Notebook, Years, Ideas

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• Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and his razor sharp exploration of our contemporary ironies will break your heart.

  Margot Livesey

  Hero, Writing, Heart

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• I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

  Shelby Foote

  Typewriters, Paper, Want

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• The real fountain of youth is to have a dirty mind.

  Jerry Hall

  Real, Dirty, Mind

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• Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.

  Lani Guinier

  Book, School, Loss

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• Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power, bending the hearts of hardened sinners as the wheat before the wind, breaking up the fountains of the great deep, sweeping the whole range of the emotions, as the master hand moves across the harp strings, from the tears and cries of the penitent to the holy laughter and triumphant joy of the cleansed.

  Norman Grubb

  Laughter, Moving, Heart

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• Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either.

  Harry Lloyd

  Book, Mean, Mind

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• Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Space, Flow, Infinity

  FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1953). “THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE”

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• You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

  Robert Collier

  Successful, Ideas, Achievement

  Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.184, Penguin

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• We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star.

  John Henry Hopkins, Jr.

  Christmas, Kings, Stars

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• Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

  Cathy Rigby

  Children, Parent, Youth

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• The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream shall never be dried. His comfort and joy is a living spring in the soul, a well of water springing up to everlasting life.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Peace, Spring

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume II - I”, Lulu.com

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• When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

  Mary Garden

  Blessed, Voice, Lord

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• The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.

  John Piper

  People, Broken, Half

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• God is a fountain flowing into itself.

  Pope Dionysius

  God

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• Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

  John Locke

  Children, Water, Parent

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.

  Daniel Webster

  Art, War, Years

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.143, Beard Books

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• Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

  Carl Sandburg

  Drinking, Water, Goats

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Drink, Quench, Thirst

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• Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Prayer, Blessing

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• Fountain of Love my source is in thee - Loving thy will my spirit is free - Beautiful day when all of us see - The hope of the world is Love!

  Peace Pilgrim

  Beautiful, World, Spirit

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.168, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

  Charles Simic

  Art, Found Objects, Sculpture

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• Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is.

  Don Tapscott

  Teacher, Internet

  Don Tapscott (2008). “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World”, McGraw Hill Professional

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