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• Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adventure and an unshakable conviction that what you are leaping over is an obstacle upon which you would otherwise fall down.

  Monica Baldwin

  Fall, Taken, Adventure

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!

  Jules Verne

  Exercise, Men, Thinking

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Journey to the Interior of the Earth”, p.150, Jules Verne

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• The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

  Herodotus

  Ships, All Alone, Should

  "Herodotus, VII. 141". Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations V2: Drawn From The Speech And Literature Of All Nations, Ancient And Modern (1922), Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of trying / to let go, of lying. You don't sit / in a stiff chair and worry, you keep moving. / Postcards from the Alamo, the Alhambra. / ... / You, fainting at the Buddhist caves. / Climbing with thousands on the Great Wall, / ... / Having the time of your life, blistered and smiling. / The acid of your fear could eat the world.

  Gail Mazur

  Letting Go, Buddhist, Lying

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• ... to be afraid is in a way to be hopeful, because to be afraid means that you haven't given up. You know it doesn't help, but you keep thrashing. The monster has you pinned to the wall, but you're not ready to say, 'Oh, hell, eat me.

  Betty Rollin

  Mean, Hopeful, Monsters

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• On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.

  Mary McCarthy

  Gun, Waiting, Together

  Mary McCarthy (1993). “Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938”, Harcourt

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• I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Children, Lying, Toys

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Shawn St. Jean (2006). “"The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-text Critical Edition”, p.31, Ohio University Press

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• An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking, Mind, Dungeons

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2238, Delphi Classics

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• The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

  Erma Bombeck

  Food, Track, Cooking

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• The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff that my friends have made, paintings that my husband's mother made, and things that I bought. I buy abstract art on eBay, and I buy some outsider art on eBay, or what is called folk art, I buy a lot of. I have a lot of professional art work as well as more stuff my friends' kids make. To have a wall of art to look at, I feel really surrounded by love, because so much of the work is related to my friendships.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mother, Art, Husband

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2015.

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• Change the way we fund campaigns. Until we do, Wall Street will always be able to blackmail the Dems and GOP to giving them what Wall Street wants.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Giving, Campaigns, Want

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• Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us." If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.

  Ben Dreyfuss

  Father, Usa, People

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• Be careful about anybody who's running for president who's going to tell you that they're going to build a wall across the entire southern border. It's not going to happen. It is the wrong message to send. And it's not going to be effective.

  Chris Christie

  Running, Southern, President

  "Gov. Chris Christie discusses his presidential bid". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.

  Chris Christie

  Spirit, Determined, Found

  "Gov. Chris Christie discusses his presidential bid". "Fox News Sunday" Shannon Bream, www.foxnews.com. July 05, 2015.

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• Superhero power... I probably would just want to fly. I definitely would not want to be able to see through walls. I think walls are there for a reason. People put them up for a reason. You don't want to be looking through them. That would only cause nothing but misery and angst to know what's happening behind people's walls.

  Brian Regan

  Thinking, People, Superhero

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• What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather that it condemns all other spiritual choices - the Buddhist, the Jew, the Muslim, and many others who consider themselves to be good Christians. The wall of separation between church and state is needed precisely because religion, like art, is too important a part of the human experience to be choked by the hands of censors.

  Barbra Streisand

  Christian, Spiritual, Art

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• A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

  Alice Meynell

  Simplicity

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.25, eBookIt.com

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• Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

  Margaret Deland

  Stars, Men, Hands

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• the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the secret of the painting on the wall can never be the secret of the buyer.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Beauty, Moving, Sunset

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (1952). “Catherine Carter: A Novel”, London Macmillan 1952.

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• We have created a democracy that links us all, and with it come not only opportunities but obligations. There are no gates or walls high enough. There are no bank accounts large enough to buy you and your family and your friends protection from the fear and hunger of those left behind or to isolate you from the consequences of growing social inequities. We are all in this boat together. And the fact that there isn't a hole at your end of the boat doesn't mean you are safe.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mean, Opportunity, Together

  Arianna Huffington (2004). “Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People”, Miramax Books

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• Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Paper, Used

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1959). “Miss Pinkerton”

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• We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.

  John F. Kerry

  Block, Promise, President

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• Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.

  Janet Frame

  Lying, Tired, Jewels

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Country, Children, Moving

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• Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

  Jessica Mitford

  Would Be, Prison, Convicts

  Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage

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