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• Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lucky, Caviar, Eating

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1955). “Selected Letters”

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• We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Law, Rose

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• The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Mother, Eye, Son

  Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.23

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• Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.

  George Herbert

  Call Me

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.301

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• Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

  Edmund Burke

  Religious, Cheer, Volcanoes

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.417

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• Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Egypt, Pyramids

  Rebecca West (1982). “The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, Not Avail

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• Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.

  Patience Gray

  Food, Home, Wine

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• It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Country, Winter, Sheep

  Fredrika Bremer (1863). “Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands”, p.213

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• There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive branch or a reason or an excuse to be able to reach out and create an encounter with someone.

  Debra Granik

  Encounters, Olive Branches, Able

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' - and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible down to the root.

  Roland Barthes

  Jesus, Reality, August

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• My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

  Carre Otis

  Dog, Tree, Acres

  "Speaking for the Silent" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2012.

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• I do a chimichurri sauce with garlic, parsley, olive oil, and red and black pepper. You just mince the garlic and the parsley and mix it all together. Brush a little of that on a steak and it kicks it up, like, 10 notches.

  Julie Gonzalo

  Oil, Black, Together

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• The Olive Garden is bringing back its 'Pasta Pass,' which lets you eat as much pasta as you want for seven weeks. In a related story, Chris Christie just suspended his campaign.

  Conan O'Brien

  Garden, Campaigns, Stories

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• In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
  [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

  Ovid

  War, Use, Olive Branches

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• If entertainment ran grocery stores, we'd NEVER get oil cured olives or blue cheese, it would be JUST Coke.

  Penn Jillette

  Blue, Oil, Would Be

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. September 2003.

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• I'm a big fan of the Adidas three-stripe old-school zip-up tracksuit tops. I've got several for everyday wear, including an olive-green one, a burgundy one and a cream one with leather arms.

  Jonas Armstrong

  School, Stripes, Everyday

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

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• All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Humorous

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

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• What can the dove of Jesus give
  You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live,
  The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.

  Robert Lowell

  Wisdom, Jesus, Giving

  Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: A Tribute”

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• If there is anything so romantic as that castle-palace-fortress of Monaco I have not seen it. If there is anything more deliciousthan the lovely terraces and villas of Monte Carlo I do not wish to see them. There is nothing beyond the semi-tropical vegetation, the projecting promontories into the Mediterranean, the all-embracing sweep of the ocean, the olive groves, and the enchanting climate! One gets tired of the word beautiful.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Beautiful, Ocean, Tired

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• A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Race

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.11, 谷月社

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• Oh that's lovely," said Bunny. "Olive, you've got a date." "Why would you say something so foolish?" Olive asked, really annoyed. "We're two lonely people having supper." "Exactly," said Bunny. "That's a date.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Lonely, Two, People

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.259, Random House

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• He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

  Virginia Woolf

  Space, Snow, Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most overrated ingredients are garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. With garlic, it's personal; I have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed.

  Lela Rose

  Ubiquity, Oil, Fans

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• If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.

  David Hume

  Weed, Art, Revenge

  David Hume (1817). “Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics”, p.166

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• A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy.

  Gelett Burgess

  Kissing, Skills, Bottles

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