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The street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
Man, the poets down here don't write nothin' at all,
They just stand back and let it all beBorn To Run (1975) Jungleland -
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.... Recently, we've managed to wade a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 03 min 55 sec -
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
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The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
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The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
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The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks, and gapes for drink again;
The plants suck in the earth, and are
With constant drinking fresh and fair.From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). -
The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
Cosmos (1980) 221 -
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
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