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For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home.
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I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.

jimmy hoffa

— Chapter 13, Outside Again, p. 213

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Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow.

bernard membe

— Quoted in Austin Beyadi, "Unity will end crises, Membe tells Africa," The Guardian (2008-03-28)

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Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.

stephen jay gould

— Prologue, p. 16

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Now we lament one Who danced on a plume of words, Sang with a fountain's panache, Dazzled like slate roofs in sun After rain, was flighty as birds And alone as a mountain ash. The ribald, inspired urchin Leaning over the lip Of his world, as over a rock pool Or a lucky dip, Found everything brilliant and virgin.

cecil day lewis

— 'In Memory of Dylan Thomas' (1953)

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Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room. ... With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

helena bonham carter

— Los Angeles Magazine Vol. 44, No. 11 (November 1999), p. 169

Tags: Famous, people, me, know, who, sight, bad, Four, Seasons

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Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.

Annie Dillard

— An American Childhood

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Brian has compared presenting The World at One to high diving into an empty pool, and hoping it will be filled before you reach the bottom.

brian hanrahan

— BBC Radio 4 website (20 December 2010)

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But just as soon as we got to the pool he said he did wish something mighta been done, though, and dove into the water.

ken kesey

— Ch. 18 (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962))

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(On his proposal to overcome the ethnically polarized election results with a National Unity government in 1982, which the Opposition declined): "Fiji was too small to squander its limited pool of talent. Worse still, this division created an atmosphere of frustration that could fester and poison relations."

ratu sir kamisese mara

— The Pacific Way: A Memoir (1996)

Tags: proposal, overcome, ethnically, polarized, election, results, National, Unity, government

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I returned to the Holiday Inn — where they have a swimming pool and air-conditioned rooms — to consider the paradox of a nation that has given so much to those who preach the glories of rugged individualism from the security of countless corporate sinecures, and so little to that diminishing band of yesterday's refugees who still practice it, day by day, in a tough, rootless and sometimes witless style that most of us have long since been weaned away from.

hunter s. thompson

— Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979)

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Her face is a map of the worldIs a map of the worldYou can see she's a beautiful girlShe's a beautiful girl.And everything around her is a silver pool of lightThe people who surround her feel the benefit of it —It makes you calmShe holds you captivated in her palm.

kt tunstall

— "Suddenly I See"

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Without the safety of the flotation device, or the pool bottom beneath her feet, Makayla was suddenly drowning in fear.

lis wiehl

— p. 299 (Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson))

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... this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.

jane addams

— Ch. 7 (Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910))

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Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

ambrose bierce

— p. 369 (Epigrams)

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"Anybody wanna go shoot some pool?"

phil brooks

— Ghost Hunters. October 31, 2006.
While in a billiards room to the supposed ghosts.

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As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water .

peter j. carroll

— p. 31 (Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987))

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The higher the trail the steeper it grows Ten thousand tiers of dangerous cliffs The stone bridge is slippery with green moss Cloud after cloud keeps flying by Waterfalls hang like ribbons of silk The moon shines down on the bright pool I climb the highest peak once more To wait where the lone crane flies

han shan

— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840

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Clear and cool, clear and cool, By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool.

Charles Kingsley

— Song I, st. 1.

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We have the pool Ah - No that's cruel Why do you take me for A fool? Try the rails It's just not me No No No No - Siree

colin moulding

— "Set Myself On Fire"

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One who considers the prayers to be insignificant and trivial is not from me. By Allah! He shall never come close to me at the pool of Kauthar.


— Biharul Anwar, Volume 82, Page 224

Tags: One, who, considers, prayers, insignificant, trivial, me, Allah, never

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I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

edith sitwell

— Life magazine (4 January 1963) attributed variant: I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

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As we look into a clear pool and discern every detail of its sandy bottom, so may we often look into the minds of really great men.


— p.6 (Why We Fail as Christians (1919))

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The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.

james thomson

— James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 651.

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Sigmund Freud

— In: Del Thiessen Bittersweet Destiny: The Stormy Evolution of Human Behavior, Transaction Publishers, 31 December 2011, p.258

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The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops; let all their moisture flow, In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world.

james thomson

— James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 172.

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One who considers the prayers to be insignificant and trivial is not from me. By Allah! He shall never come close to me at the pool of Kauthar.


— Biharul Anwar, Volume 82, Page 224 (Shi'ite Hadith)

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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.


— Book III part ix. (Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love))

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The monkey sat on a pile of stone And he stared at the broken bone in his hand Strains of a Viennese quartet rang out across the land The monkey looked up at the stars And he thought to himself Memory is a stranger History is for fools And he cleaned his hands in a pool of holy writing Turned his back on the garden and set out for the nearest town"


— Roger Waters, Amused to Death, (1992), "Perfect Sense"

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Trinculo: Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool Stephano: There is not only disgrace and dishonor in that, monster, but an infinite loss.


— scene i

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