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• The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.

  Bear Bryant

  Summer, Twilight, Office

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• Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.

  Alan Turing

  Exercise, Two, Drawing

  "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, Volume 45, 1939.

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• The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

  J. C. Ryle

  Hands, Parent, Trying

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.34, Booklassic

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• Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!

  Edward Robb Ellis

  New York, Should Have, Cities

  Edward Robb Ellis, Pete Hamill (1996). “A Diary of the Century: Tales from America's Greatest Diarist”, Kodansha Amer Incorporated

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• Beauty and strength were, both of them, much esteemed; Then wealth was discovered and soon after gold Which quickly became more honoured than strength or beauty. For men, however strong or beautiful, Generally follow the train of a richer man.

  Lucretius

  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.167, Psychology Press

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• Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Appreciation, Humorous, Wrestling

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Autobiography of a Yogi, Ch. 44 - With Mahatma Gandhi At Wardha, 1946.

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• When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

  Bruce Lee

  Baby, Art, Fighting

  "Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview". Short, Talk-Show, 1994.

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• Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Men, Mind, Liberty

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.198

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• Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Crush, Exercise, Men

  "Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, The Archipelago of Arrogance". www.tomdispatch.com. April 13, 2008.

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• When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, White, Hands

  Arthur Miller (2016). “Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.157, Penguin

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• Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, War, Fate

  Letter to Andrew I. Crawford, May 1, 1833.

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• The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918

  William Henry Vanderbilt

  Luxury, Should

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• There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.

  Will Smith

  Discipline, Weak, Form

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Do you need to train two hours a day? Probably not. The reason why my celebrity clients have to train two hours a day is because their endurance level is so strong. For Madonna to get results and keep results, it's like a professional athlete training - she has to push harder.

  Tracy Anderson

  Strong, Athlete, Two

  "Teeny, tiny body, anyone?". www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.

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• Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train.

  John French Sloan

  Memories, Riding, Window

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• The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.

  Christian Boltanski

  Education, Art, Believe

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• Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.

  Cathy Marie Buchanan

  New York, Struggle, Home

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• Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Moving, Rocks, Brain

  Twitter post from Oct 12, 2010

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• Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spring, Flower, Fading

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.382

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• There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a train of evil in the self-deception which regards them as final. I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions.

  Walter Lippmann

  Thinking, Self, Ideas

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.

  Edward Everett

  Mourning, Sorrow, Tears

  Edward Everett (1836). “Life and Speeches”

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• To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Home, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.20, Oxford University Press

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• They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wise, Grief, Moon

  Rupert Brooke (2007). “1914 & Other Poems”, p.37, Jeremy Mills Publishing

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• All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.

  George Santayana

  Break A Leg, Legs, Left Behind

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The Son of God goes forth to war,A kingly crown to gain;His blood red banner streams afar:Who follows in His train?Who best can drink his cup of woe,Triumphant over pain,Who patient bears his cross below,He follows in His train.

  Reginald Heber

  Pain, War, Son

  Reginald Heber (1827). “Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year”, p.17

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