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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
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In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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In the day we sweat it out in the streets Of a runaway American dream At night we ride through mansions of Glory in suicide machines.
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In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
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In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) -
Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?
Source: A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 1 (1896) -
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
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It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
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