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• I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

  George Eliot

  Math, Men, Fire

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

  Cesare Pavese

  Smoking

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

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• Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Long, Doe

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.103, Vintage

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• Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air; Breathe not the chaos of eternal smoke And volatile corruption, from the dead, The dying, sickening, and the living world Exhal'd, to sully heaven's transparent dome With dim mortality.

  John Armstrong

  Pain, Air, Cities

  John Armstrong, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson”, p.25

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• When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

  Walter Scott

  Father, Israel, Flames

  Walter Scott (1862). “Ivanhoe: A Romance”, p.326

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• I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Men, March

  Rod Serling's speech at Moorpark College in Moorpark, California, December 3, 1968.

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• It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Grandfather, Criminals, Noses

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.103, Penguin

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• It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not.

  Drew Carey

  Bars, Want, Should

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• Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury

  Elvis Costello

  Sea, Sweat, Mercury

  Song: Accidents Will Happen, Album: Armed Forces, 1979

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• My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls.

  Robert Southwell

  Blow, Love Is, Men

  Robert Southwell (1856). “Poetical Works”, p.98

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• This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails

  Daniel Defoe

  Dark, Axes, Knives

  Daniel Defoe (2016). “DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more”, p.4680, e-artnow

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• Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.

  Tom Waits

  Advice, Gold, Musician

  Musician magazine, October 1987.

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• Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Air, Loud, Foul

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1895). “The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His Works”

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• So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got, What went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed And that's too long.

  Billy Joel

  Mother, Girlfriend, Play

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• I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.

  Pete Rose

  Running, Hurt, Smoking

  Pete Rose, Whitehall, Hadlyme & Smith (1979). “Pete Rose: my life in baseball”, Doubleday Books

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• I've had every known chemical - cocaine, booze - and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Suggestions, Watches, World

  Launch.com, October 10, 2003.

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• The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting in ash and smoke, roaming the apocryphal cities, the cities of speculation and reconstituted disorder, of insemination and incipience, swept round with the dark.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Dark, Night, Cities

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• All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.

  William Empson

  Dream, Men, Long

  William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen

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• All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago

  Larry Hagman

  Hero, Years, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors.

  Ted Nugent

  Believe, Hero, Mirrors

  "The Greastest Phony America's Ever Known" by Ted Nugent, www.wnd.com. July 31, 2013.

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• I smoke pot every day, and I love it!

  Willie Nelson

  Pot

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• The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.

  Dan Simmons

  Blow, Reality, Wind

  "The Rise of Endymion". Book by Dan Simmons, published by Bantam Spectra, Chapter 25 (pp. 535-536), 1997.

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• My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

  Arthur Christiansen

  Ideas, Heaven, Pages

  1961 Headlines all my Life, ch.19.

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• But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interests groups.

  Robert Higgs

  Government, Succeed, Groups

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• For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

  Ellen Willis

  Crush, Zero, Mistake

  "Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.

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