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Walter Gropius

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WILLIAM WALLACE HARNEY Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like par...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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N.T. WRIGHT Pause.
Listen for the whispers of your Soul.
Soul quietly flows through every part of yo...
NANCY LANKSTON Well… er -”
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CHRISTINA ENGELA No one who writes a good book is really dead.
WALTER MOERS His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.
JANDY NELSON In the early days, I was everything to David. I was his creative partner, his lover, his soul mate.
ANGELA BOWIE Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
MARCEL PROUST Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
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JAMES THOMAS FIELDS A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his...
JAMES THOMAS FIELDS A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
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BERTI VOGTS Do not be troubled for a language,cultivate your soul and she will show herself
EUGENE DELACROIX Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
EUGENE DELACROIX For though his body's under hatches, His soul has gone aloft.
CHARLES DIBDIN He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her...
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C. JOYBELL C. No Minnesota voter under the age of 53 has ever been able to vote for Walter Mondale for Senate.
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WAYNE CLARKSON Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.
THOMAS JONATHAN "STONEWALL" JACKSON He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
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SUSAN SONTAG Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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RAMANA PEMMARAJU It might give them pause to think they might be sued and hauled into court.
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ALEXIS STRAUSS Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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WALTER SCOTT Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
WALTER SCOTT Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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WALTER SCOTT Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTT Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTT To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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WALTER SCOTT Look back, and smile on perils past.
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WALTER SALLES But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the begin...
WALTER SALLES Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American film...
WALTER SALLES My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to cu...
WALTER SALLES I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
WALTER SALLES And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done...
WALTER SALLES Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who wen...
WALTER SALLES A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
WALTER SALLES The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.
WALTER SALLES There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much pr...
WALTER SALLES On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
WALTER SALLES There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to ...
WALTER REUTHER I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
WALTER REISCH A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
WALTER REISCH Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.
WALTER REISCH