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• I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who stayed at the university for so long that they gave him a job to keep him out of trouble.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Jobs, Long, Students

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• When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .

  Nelly Sachs

  Sleep, Men, Breathing

  Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt
  Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out.
  Until they sign my Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me
  I'm still at it, Illmatic, and that's The Documentary.

  Jayceon Terrell Taylor

  Rap, Hip Hop, Doubt

  Song: The Documentary, Album: The Documentary

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• I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place.

  Amy Poehler

  Tired, Mirrors, Clean

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.

  Adyashanti

  Fire, Mind, Burning

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• Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

  William Osler

  Hard Work, Dust, Aggravation

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.301, Duke University Press

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• I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. Martin Sheen The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Fire, Government, Long

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• The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed. How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess. Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried. Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.

  John Muir

  Summer, Country, Sky

  John Muir (1918). “The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails”

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• I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.

  John Muir

  Book, Mind, Attention

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.94, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.

  Ian Mckellen

  New York, Men, Past

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.

  Bill Bryson

  America, People, Would Be

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• Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts?

  Sarah Wollaston

  Car, Sitting, Want

  "Big tobacco has got its way - now let's find what big alcohol is up to" by Sarah Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Laughter, Angel, Hatred

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.122

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• There are rules in movies. I did a movie playing a bad cop who was a heroin addict but they wouldn't let me smoke in a movie.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Cop, Heroin, Let Me

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Pipe, Good Place, Studios

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• I have no rules on drinking. In your young days, you can play strong even if you are not healthy. If they want to get drunk and smoke, they can, but not immediately after a match when the body is weak and vulnerable.

  Felix Magath

  Strong, Drinking, Play

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• There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject, or smoke various substances that alter their feelings and thoughts - and the traditional persecution of men for their religion... What all of these persecutions have in common is that the victims are harassed by the majority not because they engage in overtly aggressive or destructive acts... but because their conduct or appearance offends a group intolerant to and threatened by human differences.

  Thomas Szasz

  Men, Differences, Feelings

  "The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1970.

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• For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

  Aeschylus

  Shadow, Kind, Mortals

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.420, Delphi Classics

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• The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

  Aeschylus

  Clouds, Shadow, Passing

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.342

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• You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

  David Wong

  Ocean, Garden, Clouds

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.55, Titan Books

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• There is no fyre without some smoke.

  John Heywood

  John Heywood, Spenser Society (1867). “Publications of the Spenser Society”, p.57

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• Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.

  Alfred Austin

  Summer, Autumn, Fire

  Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

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• The comedy for the Democrats is that they're showing off too much. They need to be putting a boring white guy out there to kind of get a hold of things. Once the boring white guy is out there, then you bust out the junior senator from Illinois who smokes and does cocaine.

  Tina Fey

  White, Illinois, Guy

  "Live From Studio 1A: Tina Fey Q & A". www.today.com. April 5, 2007.

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• Odors can be highly transitory, depending on the air currents. If this is happening in your house, ask if there are any possessions of that deceased loved one still around. If it happens elsewhere, consider just how many millions of people use the same perfume or smoke the same brand of cigar as someone you knew.

  Seth Shostak

  Air, People, House

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• Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Wall, Writing, Experience Yourself

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