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• There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does; there are certain principles which limit this right. Society has got the murderer within four walls; he never can do any more harm. Has society any need to take that man's life to protect itself? If any society has only the right that the individual has, she has no right to inflict the penalty of death, because she can effectually restrain the individual from ever again committing his offence.

  Wendell Phillips

  Wall, Men, Principles

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• If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow our populace a communion with nature in areas of more or less wilderness condition.

  Arthur Carhart

  Men, Thinking, Perspective

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• Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

  Dave Freudenthal

  Dream, Believe, Opportunity

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• The terrain of Adam’s Mountain provides a palette unique to the region. Rather than typical mountain slope play, the course is broad and open, allowing for special golf experiences on every single hole.

  Tom Weiskopf

  Golf, Unique, Play

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• No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Country, Writing, Simple

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1983). “Novels”, p.854, Library of America

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• Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

  Chinua Achebe

  Jumping, Toads, Daylight

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.143, Heinemann

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• And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

  Alan Paton

  Compassion, Heaven, Gold

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch familiar landmarks in silver against a velvet sky. Unsuspected definition of form and contour is revealed.

  Volkmar Wentzel

  Fall, Night, Light

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• I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Girl, Trying, Brooklyn

  "Back in the saddle: essays on Western film and television actors". Book by Gary A. Yoggy, 1998.

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• I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Acting, Needs, Brooklyn

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn't call myself a woman. I'd say I'm somewhere between a chick and a broad.

  Julia Roberts

  Girl, Dresses, Had Enough

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• Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.

  Michael Vartan

  Fun, Character, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the imagination of Western politicians. For this reason Western politicians cannot grasp the fact that the Soviet intention is to win by 'democratic' means. Through transition to a new system, the Soviets are revitalising their own people and institutions, and they are succeeding. Contrary to Western belief, they are holding their ranks together.

  Anatoliy Golitsyn

  Mean, Winning, Thinking

  "The Perestroika Deception: Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency". Book by Anatoliy Golitsyn, 1995.

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• Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

  Saint Augustine

  Nature, Stars, Ocean

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• Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Memorable, Hands, Needs

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• If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek the one I love.' She is whispering that, and she whispers, 'By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. My beloved is mine and I am his.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kissing, Night, Cities

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• Colin : “Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women.” Sugar Beth : “Well, that sure does leave me out.” Colin : “Exactly. With agreeable women, I’m unendingly considerate. Gallant even.” Sugar Beth : “But with tarts like me, the gloves are off, is that it?” Colin : “I wouldn’t exactly call you a tart. But then, I tend to be broad-minded.” She suppressed the urge to dump her porridge in his lap.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Weakness, Doe, Lap

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• wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Temptation, Way, Grace Christian

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2000). “Liar's Game”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Ohio, Quality

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• Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where all is correct. But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion." Nothing follows a regular course. Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will be more perilous.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Crazy, Lying, Fall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.95, A&C Black

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• The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark beyond; the white squares were the roofs of the garage, the old barn, the rabbit hutches, the chicken coops. Further back there were only the flat fields of Dawson's farm, dimly white-striped. All the broad sky was grey, full of more snow that refused to fall. There was no colour anywhere.

  Susan Cooper

  Fall, Dark, White

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• Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Doe, Daylight, Horror

  Guy de Maupassant (1989). “The dark side of Guy de Maupassant”

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• Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.

  Michael Pollan

  Yield, Turkeys, America

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• She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there from the very beginning, a measured distance away, standing in the ordinary light like some plain house where one went in and was greeted by respectable people and was shown to a room where everything one had ever lost or put aside was gathered together, waiting.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Country, Distance, Light

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• The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

  Frank Herbert

  Time, Doors, Vision

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.194, Penguin

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