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It's sad that the art form is not appreciated in its place of origin, Lucknow, despite being popular across the globe.
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The disciples seem alone; but up yonder, in some hidden cleft of the hills, their Master looks down on all the weltering storm, and lifts His voice in prayer. Then when the need is sorest, and the hope least, He comes across the waves, making their surges His pavement, and using all opposition as the means of His approach; and His presence brings calmness; and immediately they are at the land.

alexander maclaren

— Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895, p. 110)

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Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.

susan kay

— Giovanni (p. 133)

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Don't think about what you've left behind, the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever."

paulo coelho

— p. 130 (The Alchemist (1988))

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All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.

john knowles

— Gene, on the enemy.
— P. 196

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Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

Kenneth Grahame

— The Wind in the Willows (1908).

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Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

Richard Bach

— There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)

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A Spring o'erhung with many a flow'r,The grey sand dancing in its bed,Embank'd beneath a Hawthorn bower,Sent forth its waters near my head:A rosy Lass approach'd my view;I caught her blue eye's modest beam:The stranger nodded 'How d'ye do!'And leap'd across the infant stream.

robert bloomfield

— Rosy Hannah, stanza 1, from Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs (1802)

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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.

ernest hemingway

— Ch. 10 (True at First Light (1999))

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In the great desert of northern Arizona the traveller, threading his way across a sage-brush and cacti plain shut in by abrupt-sided shelves of land rising here and there some hundreds of feet higher, suddenly comes upon a petrified forest.

percival lowell

— Chapter IV, p.125

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We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.

norman mailer

— Ancient Evenings (1983) Last lines

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"In all these countries, (Özal swept his hand across the map from Afghanistan to Algeria) too many people have too little hope."

turgut Özal

— The Washington Institute's Second Annual Turgut Ozal Memorial Lecture. (October 14, 1998)
— Comment made 8 years earlier to Strobe Talbott during an interview for Time (Jan. 28, 1991) about the phenomenon of extremism in the Islamic world, as told by Strobe Talbott during The Washington Institute's Second Annual Turgut Ozal Memorial Lecture.

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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

ralph waldo emerson

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Books.

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Now is done thy long day's work. Fold thy palms across thy breast, fold thine arms, turn to thy rest. Let them rave.

Alfred Tennyson

— A Dirge.

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Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.

wystan hugh auden

— The Fall of Rome (1947) Lines 21-28

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[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.

kenneth boulding

— p.670-671 as cited in: Christopher Spicer (1997) Organizational Public Relations: A Political Perspective. p.248
Spicer (1997) explains: "Boulding (1989) referred to three independent systems from which power is exercised in our society: threat, production and exchange, and integrative. The threat system is one in which power is accomplished through coercion in its many guises, often including asymmetrical one-way persuasive communication exchanges. The production and exchange system speaks to the economic system, of which public relations is certainly a part. And, finally, the integrative system.

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If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety...

warren buffett

— 1997 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, quoted in Andrew Kilpatrick, Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett (Vol. 2), p. 1615

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Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny , he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life , he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.

arthur c. clarke

— Glide Path (1963) Chapter 27

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Sudden and magnificent, the sun's broad golden disc showed itself over the horizon facing them; and the first rays, shooting across the level water-meadows, took the animals full in the eyes and dazzled them. When they were able to look once more, the Vision had vanished, and the air was full of the carol of birds that hailed the dawn.

Kenneth Grahame

— Ch. 7 (The Reluctant Dragon)

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Spread across seven hills in the northwest Himalayas among lush valleys and forests of oak, rhododendron and pine is the capital of Himachal Pradesh that was once the summer capital of colonial India. And today, there is still more than a hint of the Raj in the former hill station of Shimla.


— Peter Aronson and Yésica del Moral, in Shimla: India’s Queen of Hills, Skyward, the JAL Inflight Magazine, February 2010.

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Our exploration of emergent social structures across domains of human activity and experience leads to an over-arching conclusion: as an historical trend, dominant functions and processes in the Information Age are increasingly organized around networks. Networks constitute the new social morphology of our societies, and the diffusion of networking logic substantially modifies the operation and outcomes in processes of production, experience, power, and culture. While the networking form of social organization has existed in other times and spaces, the new information technology paradigm provides the material basis for its pervasive expansion throughout the entire social structure.


— Manuel Castells (1996) The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture Volume I (Information Age Series). p. 500

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One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind dealing with Texas is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.


— Robert E. Howard in a letter to August Derleth (March 1933)

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Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king!

william allingham

— William Allingham, Wishing, A Child's Song.

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The French people there is no French race is an amalgamation of practically all the tribes that have surged across Europe. It is a comparatively modern people formed by the fusion of numerous and diverse ethnic elements.


— Charles Kay Ogden, Psyche: An Annual General and Linguistic Psychology 1920-1952, Routledge, 1995, p.88

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Note: Said after being seriously wounded in a gunfight with Bub, who then stumbles across a horde of zombies that tear him apart. Dawn of the Dead (2004)


— Who: C.J. (Michael Kelly)
— Note: C.J. is surrounded by zombies and decides to blow himself up with a tank of propane.

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Narrated Abdullah: That he came across Abu Jahl while he was on the point of death on the day of Badr. Abu Jahl said, "You should not be proud that you have killed me nor I am ashamed of being killed by my own folk."


— Narrated by Abdullah
— Sahih Al-Bukhari: Volume 5, Book 59, Number 298.

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across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.

nathalia crane

— "The First Reformer"

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across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.


— Nathalia Crane, "The First Reformer", Lava Lane and Other Poems (1925).

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One foot in Eden still, I stand And look across the other land. The world's great day isgrowing late, Yet strange these fields that we have planted So long with crops of love and hate.

Edwin Muir

— 1956  One Foot in Eden,'One Foot in Eden'.

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In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

joseph gurney cannon

— Referring to a practice during the Civil War, quoted in a tribute to Cannon on his retirement; reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).

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