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• I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.

  Matsuo Basho

  Home, Sleep, Air

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• There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

  Peter Mullan

  Air, Smell, People

  "Local hero". Interview with Demetrios Matheou, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2001.

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• There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking.

  Rawi Hage

  Thinking, Air, Paranoia

  Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival”, p.37, Penguin UK

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• The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Light, Air

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

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• Breathing is made up of two stages: inhaling, the intake of air, and exhaling, the letting out of air. The spiritual life is fed, nourished, by prayer and is expressed outwardly through mission: inhaling and exhaling. When we inhale, by prayer, we receive the fresh air of the Holy Spirit.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Prayer, Air

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• Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.

  Wallace Stegner

  Country, Air, Land

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• Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Dream, Encouragement, Thinking

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “Encourage Me”, p.97, Harper Collins

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• It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.

  Sister Souljah

  Believe, Air, People

  Sister Souljah (2013). “The Sister Souljah Collection #1: The Coldest Winter Ever; Midnight, A Gangster Love Story; and Midnight and the Meaning of Love”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• (mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.

  Emily Giffin

  Mother, Book, Air

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.123, Macmillan

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• I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting the government off your back, lowering the taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, I said, "What party is he?" My friend said, "He's a Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican."

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Military, Party, Government

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.

  Angie Stone

  Air, Islands, Relax

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• Every time I look at it, It looks back at me I love the sea, its waters are blue And the sky is too And the sea is very dear to me If when I grow up and the sea is still there Then I’ll open my eyes and smell the fresh air Because the sea is very dear to me The sea is very calm and that’s why I like it there The sand is brand new and the wind blows in my hair And the sea is very dear to me.

  Esther Earl

  Growing Up, Eye, Blow

  Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.38, Penguin UK

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• Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eye, Dwarves, Air

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1985). “The Hobbit”

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• ...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine.

  Benjamin Rush

  Dark, Exercise, Garden

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• Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Air, Achievement, Too Much

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• Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.

  Anne Lamott

  Air, Self, Atmosphere

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• He is my soul mate, my fresh air, the reason I look forward to getting up every morning.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Morning, Air, Soul

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Air, Speaks Out

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.55, Criss Jami

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• Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

  Jack Benny

  Beautiful, Sports, Golf

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• I guess it's a little bit sentimental, but at the time I was really very focused in on really my performance. Afterward, it was really just a breath of fresh air, just like, 'Oh, yes, I'm back now. I'm doing good.'

  Venus Williams

  Air, Littles, Sentimental

  "Venus Is Back at the Controls". January 20, 2004.

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• Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Artist, Air, Chance

  "Q&A: Seinfeld finds new 'space and place' with Web series". Interview with Ryan Nakashima, www.times-standard.com. October 7, 2015.

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• Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope for success. In this connection the best of all tonics is 15 to 20 days in the fresh air, in the country.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Country, Player, Air

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Travel, Gambling

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over, throw up for hours, and have little people pounding in your head with hammers, it is sheer bliss just to eat a piece of toast, walk outside without getting dizzy, and breathe fresh air. Part of the journey toward joy involves not waiting around for trouble, but being continuously aware of our blessings.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• When going for a run, I pick fresh air, openness, and scenery of the outdoors over a treadmill every time.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Running, Bodybuilding

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