Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball. ~Billie Jean King
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We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. ~Dick Cheney
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ~Anna Kournikova
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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I never read the tabloids. ~Dana Carvey
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
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Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing. ~Joel Osteen
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that; maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want. ~Elle Fanning
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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