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These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
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These fragile bodies of touch and taste
This vibrant skin, this hair like lace
Spirits open to the thrust of grace
Never a breath you can afford to waste, when you're
Lovers in a dangerous time
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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
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They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.
Source: Speech on the 50th anniversary of D-Day at the United States Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1994 -
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
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They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
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They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.
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They would say, he answered, that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.
Source: That Hideous Strength (1945) Ch. 7 : The Pendragon, section 2 -
Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.
Source: Arafels Saga (1983) The Dreamstone, Book One : The Gruagach, Ch. 1 : O -
This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
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This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
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This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
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This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
Source: Time magazine 27 October 1975 -
This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
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