Quotes by places
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
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After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
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All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
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All places are distant from heaven alike.
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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
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Being on stage and on a motorcycle are two of the only places I feel comfortable and free. Those are my happy places.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places.
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But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2007) 172 -
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
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