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• With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.

  A. R. Ammons

  Journey, Hiking, Numbers

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

  Geoff Nicholson

  Dog, Night, Journey

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• Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Fun, Business, Mean

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• So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

  Olivia Wilde

  Character, People, Alex

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• A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Dark, Destiny, Men

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

  Margaret Spellings

  Education, Kansas, Understanding

  Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robele, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  Fay Weldon

  Friends, Children, Men

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• If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

  Robert Quillen

  Giving, Mind, Attention

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• Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.

  Tanya Tucker

  Cutting, Night, Police

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• Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

  Ned Rorem

  Humor, Two Sides, Flipping A Coin

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.149, Open Road Media

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• Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

  Ted Rall

  Fun, Humor, Two Sides

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• Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

  Horst Kohler

  Leadership, Country, Ideas

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• The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.

  Dan Miller

  Relationship, Blessed, Heart

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• Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

  William Robertson Smith

  Men, Religion, Fellow Man

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.30, Transaction Publishers

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• First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

  John W. Thompson

  Technology, Thinking, Bullets

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.

  Kelly Miller

  War, Growing Stronger, Years

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.

  Michelle Wie

  Women, Player, Two Sides

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• I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Fun, Women, Play

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• When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century.

  Li Peng

  Two Sides, Hype, President

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• There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

  Rachel Hunter

  Thinking, Feminist, Feminism

  "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.

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• Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.

  Sylvia Browne

  Home, Animal, Totems

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• Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

  Beck

  Ocean, Sea, Ideas

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• "I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and they have drove and drove and been beat off, may be t'other side the world. But the ship's a good ship, and the lad's a good lad; and it ain't easy, thank the Lord," the Captain made a little bow, "to break up hearts of oak, whether they're in brigs or buzzums."

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Heart, Weather

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Dombey and SonI”, p.340, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Sri Lanka, Finals, Three

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• I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.

  June Carter Cash

  Inspirational, Regret, Paddling

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