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• The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

  John F. Kennedy

  Commitment, Political, Nuclear

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• When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.

  Louis L'Amour

  Lying, Believe, Animal

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Ride the Dark Trail”, p.70, Bantam

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• The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Light, Perception, Body

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.120

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• The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Respectability

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• The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.

  Robertson Davies

  Christian, Reading, Color

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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• Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness result in colour schemes containing 16, 64, 256 and 1,024 shades. More colours would be pointless because it wouldn't be possible to distinguish between them clearly.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Blue, Yellow

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the Fundator et Primus Abbas of biochemistry in England.

  Joseph Needham

  Inspiration, Science, Intellectual

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• If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

  Jenny Eclair

  Beach, Track, Bars

  "Me and my travels" by Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Eye, People, Tree

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• Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Sadness, Men, Mind

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• Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Relaxation, Laziness

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.

  Carla Gugino

  Fifty, Grey, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

  John Henry Newman

  Long, Giving, Support

  'Wisdom and Innocence' (19 February 1843), in 'Sermons Bearing on Subjects of the Day' (1843) no. 20

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• No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.

  Anthony Lane

  Writing, Firsts, Fifty

  "No Pain, No Gain" by Anthony Lane, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.

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• Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.

  Artur Schnabel

  Garden, Mountain Ranges, Light

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• Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.

  George Eliot

  Nice, Blue, Mind

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.72

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• While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

  John Dryden

  Lying, Grief, Eye

  John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.86

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• Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.

  John Milton

  Views, Theatre, Cedars

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.244

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• Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Sports, Thinking, Hair

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

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• Jolly boating weather,
  And a hay harvest breeze,
  Blade on the feather,
  Shade off the trees.

  William Johnson Cory

  Weather, Tree, Hay

  'Eton Boating Song' in 'Eton Scrap Book' (1865). E. Parker 'Floreat' (1923) p. 109

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• There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Girl, Wrecks, Breakfast At Tiffanys

  "Fictional character: Holly Golightly". Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961.

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• No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Paper, Photographer

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

  Alexander Pope

  Envy, Merit, Dignity

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Grieving, Passed Away

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.254

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• Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.

  Blake Shelton

  Beach, Tree, Casting

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