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• I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Thinking, Rooms, Landscape

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• And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Flight, Busy, Spare Time

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• A short reign does not spare the masses.

  Statius

  Doe, Reign, Mass

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• This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it pain or to cause it some, depending.

  Jerry Stahl

  Pain, Believe, People

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• Jeri Brown has it all - adventurous spirit, superb musicianship, and technique to spare.

  Fred Hersch

  Technique, Spirit, Adventurous

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• God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Be Good, Ifs

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1975). “The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life”

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• We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee.

  Pope John XXIII

  Military, War, World

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• Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine

  Grief, Fire, Doe

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• My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  New York, Dad, Mean

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• The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Taste, Firsts

  "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson". Book by Thomas Jefferson, p. 30, 1904.

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• Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.

  Gore Vidal

  Eye, Media, Work Out

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

  Robert Breault

  Honesty, Men, Giving

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• Spare the person but lash the vice.

  Martial

  Vices, Lashes, Persons

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• All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Self, Order

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 25 Apr. 1778)

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• Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

  Juvenal

  Snakes, Fellowship, Today

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• Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Thinking, Fiction Novels, Years

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• Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Giving, Shame

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• He who has far to ride spares his horse.

  Jean Racine

  Horse, Prudence

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• When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

  Edward Carpenter

  Father, Philosophy, Long

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• I started writing stories in my spare time.

  Ken Follett

  Writing, Stories, Spare Time

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• Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

  Billy Bragg

  Poetry, Guilt, Answers

  Song: I Don't Need This Pressure Ron

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• The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Humanity, Destruction

  "Rights expert urges the UN General Assembly to adopt a more decisive role in peace-making (For International Day of Peace, Saturday 21 September 2013)". dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 21, 2013.

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• There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
  His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
  Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
  And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  God, Humble, Hands

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• Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Taken, Party, Giving

  Naomi Mitchison (1990). “A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems”

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• A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doors, Feet, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.49, Graphic Arts Books

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