Quotes with place-kicker

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  • Carole King Way over yonder is a place I have seen
    In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.
    Tapestry (1971) Way Over Yonder
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • David Mamet We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • John Donne We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Meister Eckhart We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Mark Twain We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Adam Ferguson We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Joseph De Maistre We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Bill Walton We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Bill Bryson We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under.
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bernhard von Bulow We desire to throw no one into the shade [in East Asia], but we also demand our own place in the sun.
    Speech in Reichstag, 6 December 1897
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Angela Merkel We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place for those who love us.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Jim Rohn We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bill Maris We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Golda Meir We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America - as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bertolt Brecht We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • T. S. Eliot We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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