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• If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah...fair enough...gotta go home now.'

  Noel Gallagher

  Home, Moon, Enough

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• I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Beautiful, Art, People

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• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Children, Character

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

  Fernando Botero

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

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• In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water, the need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.

  Alain de Botton

  Love, Princess, Men

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.52, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Women have a natural tendency to want to nurture and take care of men. You always think that the guy is going to end up coming around and that you’re going to be the one that saves him - like the Oasis song.

  Emma Watson

  Song, Men, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Oct 10, 2012

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• Saddam Hussein is Hitler like Oasis was The Beatles.

  Bill Maher

  Hussein, Saddam

  "Real Time with Bill Maher". Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. (2003 - ).

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• Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly turn,which might one day render Earth as dry and lifeless as Mars. (From the cover of Old Poison by Joan Francis)

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Long Ago, Water

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• Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Water, Desert, Causes

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• I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.

  Sonny Rollins

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Fighting, Valleys, Towns

  "Gaddafi vows: 'We won't surrender again; we are not women'" by Luke Harding, Julian Borger, www.aljazeera.com. September 1, 2001.

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• I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Home, People

  "Woodsy's World of Star Wars: My Q+A with Fanboys Screenwriter Ernest Cline!!". Interview with Laurel Woods, www.mtv.com. August 16, 2011.

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• Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  League, Definitions, Desert

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• Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Ocean, Book, Islands

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1987). “Next to Mother's Milk--: An Engelhard Lecture on the Book”

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• The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson."

  Noel Gallagher

  Mean, Giving, Needs

  "Noel Gallagher's post-icon rock star life". Billboard Interview, www.today.com. August 21, 2005.

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• I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.

  Ben Elton

  Baseball, Vote, Caps

  1998 In The Radio Times, 18 Apr.

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• ...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

  Ernest Cline

  Stars, Home, Reality

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.201, Random House

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• Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Camels, Desert

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• I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway.

  Bob Gunton

  Mean, California, Orange

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Vacuums, Desert, Symbiosis

  Robert Charles Wilson (2011). “Vortex”, p.304, Macmillan

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• Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Islands, Offering, Asking

  "Interview with 'One Thousand Gifts' Author, Ann Voskamp". Interview with Frank Viola, churchleaders.com. February 11, 2013.

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• ...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Rain, Reality, Agony

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• I'm Liam Gallagher and I'm in Oasis. The whole world is jealous of me. It should be.

  Liam Gallagher

  Jealous, World, Should

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• All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.

  Rob Thurman

  Mother, Liars, Opposites

  Rob Thurman (2009). “Deathwish”, p.34, Penguin

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• I have very eclectic taste in music. I like everything from Nirvana, which is featured in the film, to world music, to orchestral and jazz. For me, the nineties were about Oasis, because I was travelling around Britain when that band exploded onto the music scene.

  Isla Fisher

  Band, Taste In Music, World

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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