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• Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Sea, Azure, Naples

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author”, p.194

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• Seville is a tower full of fine archers.... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Archer, Sky, Rivers

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• Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

  Robert Southey

  Sky, Rainbow, Lovely

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.108

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• The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch

  Mark Rippetoe

  Spine, Load

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• Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cities, Arms, Information

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• Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

  Max Muller

  Bridges, Pillars, Belief

  "Chips from a German Workshop, Volume I: Essays on the Science of Religion". Book by Max Müller, p. 45, 1867.

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• Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.

  Lisa See

  Boys, Garden, Praying Mantis

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• The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Waste, Beast, Type

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches”, p.113, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.

  Catherine Mary Stewart

  Crazy, Gymnastics, Years

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• And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

  Virginia Woolf

  Horse, Men, Hair

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.779, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Civilization, Enemy

  "Authors take Sides on the Spanish War". 1937.

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• The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Voice, Church

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.

  Emily Blunt

  Drama, People, Periods

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• A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Pain, Ignorance

  "Main Street". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1920.

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• Winds of May, that dance on the sea,
  Dancing a ring-around in glee
  From furrow to furrow, while overhead
  The foam flies up to be garlanded,
  In silvery arches spanning the air,
  Saw you my true love anywhere?
  Welladay! Welladay!
  For the winds of May!
  Love is unhappy when love is away!

  James Joyce

  Love Is, Air, Wind

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2037, Delphi Classics

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• I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dog, Hate, Book

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• Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

  Tony Wilson

  Pride, Gun, Drug

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• The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Years, Design

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• Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

  John Hodgman

  Smart, Dust, Criticism

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Character, Tunnels

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Hatred, Enemy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• She was ... the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die: the substance of their bodies, configurator of their lives and thoughts, and receiver of their dead. And everything having form or name-including God personified as good or evil, merciful or wrathful-was her child, within her womb.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Names, Space

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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• The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.

  David Foster Wallace

  Giving, Lines, Balloons

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• If one sits on the head of the Great Buddha and looks across the green valley, framed by the arch of the grotto and dotted with fort-like manors that are almost tiny villages, he has a view and a sensation of rare beauty.

  Maynard Owen Williams

  Rare Beauty, Views, Valleys

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• I have been in kind of a sexual dry spell lately. In the past few years I've only had sex in months that end in arch... in years that have an Olympics.

  Doug Benson

  Sex, Past, Years

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