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Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

Ben Hogan

Golf, Remember, Poor

Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eye, Islands, Race

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844). “An Address Delivered in the Court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844: On the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies”, p.30

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If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.

Joe Mantegna

Light, Years, Yellow

"Joe Mantegna on Chicago-style Italian beef and his crush on Errol Flynn". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 31, 2015.

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My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Feelings, Sound, Speech

Letter to Lyudmila Shestakova on July 30, 1868. "The Musorgsky Reader: A Life of Modeste Petrovich Musorgsky in Letters and Documents", p. 113, 1947.

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When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A.

H. L. Mencken

Death, Doubt, Lasts

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A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what ; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.

Lord Chesterfield

Ignorance, Passion, Learning

"Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.

Hugh Laurie

Voice, Light, Interesting

Source: www.pbs.org

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When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

Cyril Connolly

Writing, Dark, Purple

Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth living. School is either pure torment or is going fantastically. Other people are either great or horrible, and they themselves are wonderful or pathetic failures. One day a girl will refer to herself as "the goddess of social life" and the next day she'll regret that she's the "ultimate in nerdosity.

Mary Pipher

Girl, Teenage, Regret

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Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.

John Dos Passos

Art, Pain, Husband

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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise of philosophical acuteness or judicial research. They are instruments of a practical nature, founded on the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings.

Joseph Story

Philosophical, Exercise, Expression

Joseph Story (1851). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.322

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NO I haven't read 50 Shades of Grey - I've been close enough to Jay Leno in real life.

Sarah Thyre

Real, Enough, Grey

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Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,
Up yonder hill the village murmur rose;
There as I passed, with careless steps and slow,
The mingling notes came soften'd from below;
The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung,
The sober herd that low'd to meet their young;
The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
The playful children just let loose from school;
The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind;
These all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.

Oliver Goldsmith

Dog, Sweet, Children

Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

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Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist
Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin;
Most unsubstantial, unessential shade
Was earthly fame.

Robert Pollok

Fleeting, Phantoms, Fame

Robert Pollok (1829). “The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten Books”, p.81

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Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?

Frank N. Ikard

Morning, Children, Animal

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Girls in New York look like giraffes.
Long neck, long legs, tiny tits and ass.
Girls from L.A rock over sized shades.
And chill all day cause they already paid.
Girls in Miami...string bikinis and bump techno by Dj Tiesto.
Girls from Detroit like electro
And dance all night till they break they neck yo.

Shwayze

Girl, New York, Night

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My hair was growin' too long, so I got me a fade
And when my dishes got dirty, I got cascade
And When the weather was hot, I got a spot in the shade.

Special Ed

Dirty, Weather, Hair

Song: I Got It Made

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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

Mark Twain

Respect, Book, Character

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3759, GENERAL PRESS

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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Charles Dickens

Tree, Way, Figs

1846-8 Captain Cuttle. Dombey and Son, ch.19.

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Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we're happy.

Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Friends, Swings, Views

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When I wrote my blog and went to fashion week, I got a lot of shade from older editors about paying my dues and educating myself. I get where they were coming from, but it's also weird now to see their institutions scramble to use the internet in a way that's not savvy, but genuinely effective and exciting to people. I've been doing that for years.

Tavi Gevinson

Fashion, Years, Editors

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That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.

Lupita Nyong'o

Beautiful, Validation, External Beauty

Lupita Nyong'o Acceptance Speech for Best Breakthrough Performance, www.essence.com. February 27, 2014.

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I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.

Dolly Parton

Feet, Littles, Grows

Twitter post from Feb 17, 2011

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To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To free oneself from the petty disputes of everyday life, to be active, to feel the blood renewed in one's vein - ah! that is life. . . . Life in finer and simpler. My will is freer. I appreciate everything more, sunlight and shade, work and my friends. The sky is vast. I breathe deep gulps of the fine clear air of the heights. I feel myself to have achieved a higher state of physical strength and a clearer brain. I am living in the third dimension!

Henri Mignet

Air, Blood, Sky

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Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."

John Lydon

Black And White, Army, Color

John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman (2014). “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs”, p.113, Picador

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