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• Master the season's spot-on style with polka dot sweatpants and a must-have denim trench.

  Lubov Azria

  Style, Dots, Denim

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• Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.

  Mark Steyn

  Fundraising, People, Fake

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• Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

  Ed McMahon

  Mean, New Orleans, Cities

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• The moments of grace usually give us more than one good thing we can do, and we do well if we manage a pretty good batting average. ... It is an opportunity that God sews into the fabric of a routine situations - It is a chance to do something creative, something helpful, something healing, something that makes one unmarked spot in the world better off for our having been there.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Healing, Opportunity, People

  "A Life of Distinction: What It Takes to Live with Courage, Honesty, and Gratitude".

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• There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

  Henry Timrod

  Lying, Mourning, Defeated

  Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.210

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• Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Use, Artifice

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• I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Distance, Adventure, Wings

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.59, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

  Henry David Thoreau

  House, Site, Certain

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.128

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• ...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.

  George Henry Boker

  Lovers, Ghost, Walking

  George Henry Boker (1857). “Plays and poems”, p.462

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• Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.

  Lilias Trotter

  Life, God, Christian

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• If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.

  Langston Hughes

  Rights, Government, Buffalo

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.63, Hill and Wang

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• I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

  Arthur Ashe

  Men, Weakness, Needs

  Arthur Ashe, Clifford George Gewecke (1967). “Advantage Ashe”

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• We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Ambition, Men

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• The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Interesting, Forever

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.121

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• Don't think about making money, think about making a difference, spot where others are doing it badly and do it better

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Differences, Self Improvement

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• The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Feelings, Intellectual, Weak Points

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• Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

  Agatha Christie

  Incidents, Fingers, Particular

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Endless Night”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heaven, Earth, Infinite

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• If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

  Mike McDermott

  Half, Tables, Firsts

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• The important point is to be on the spot at the moment most favorable for gaining the desired advantage; and it will be found that of men who get what they want in this world, both those who seem to hasten and those who seem to lounge are always at the right place at the right time.

  David Graham Phillips

  Time, Men, Important

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• I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Important, Goes On, World

  "Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe". Locus magazine, September 1998.

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• But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open—shut up the mind's eye—all will be music!

  Wyndham Lewis

  Eye, Silence, Mind

  Wyndham Lewis (1979). “Wyndham Lewis, Collected Poems and Plays”, New York : Persea Books

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• I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas.

  Louie Anderson

  Heart, Vegas, Warm

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• As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Night, Lakes, Islands

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• With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

  Leigh Hunt

  Lying, Sunny, Brooks

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Leigh Hunt: Selected Writings”, p.40, Routledge

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