Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
Oscar Wilde
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We have a certain group of people in this country that seem to want to lock up our national treasures, our national parks, and cherished places and keep the public from enjoying them.
Don Sherwood
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Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.
Tequan Richmond
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Making art in big cities is often frustrating and difficult. It's why artists are drawn to smaller places.
Robert Lepage
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But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.
Murray Gell-Mann
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I don't have proper places to run.
Nader al-Masri
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Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.
Diane von Furstenberg
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I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement.
Terrance Hayes
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As your Governor, I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm's way.
Robert J. Bentley
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Of all the places I've ever been, Austin is the only place that has felt like home. I fit in here.
Martha Kelly
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
Mandy Moore
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
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God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
Reggie White
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The triangle itself is just an offense based on freedom of the ball to go to different places, everybody feeling involved. It's a good thing.
Jeff Van Gundy
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When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.
Liev Schreiber
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I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.
Lance Loud
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The French, perhaps more than any other nation, cherish the memory of their dead by ornamenting their places of sepulture with the finest flowers, often renewing the garlands and replacing such plants as decay with vigorous and costly ones.
Dorothea Dix
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The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.
Raymond Loewy
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What adults don't always understand is that to a kid, a comic book is like a movie. My Marvel comics took my imagination to other places - other galaxies.
Angela Bowie
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We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.
Leila Janah
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.
Chiranjeevi
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And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.
Paul Reiser
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The more places I go to, the more I realize I understand so little about the world.
Michael Franti
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