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• The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

  Ted Nelson

  Horse, Office, Paper

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• They reached the carriage house. When she turned the knob, he got all critical again. “Why isn’t this door locked?” “It’s Parrish. There’s not much point.” “We have crime here, just as any other place does. Keep this door locked from now on.” “Like that’s going to stop you. All you’d have to do is give it one good kick, and – “ “Not from me, you ninny!” “I hate to be the one to break the bad news, but if they find my body, you’re the one with the biggest grudge.” “It’s impossible to hold a rational conversation with you.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Hate, Doors, Giving

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• The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Poet, Rhythm, Walks

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.42, Penguin

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• I was born an ugly duckling due to my mother's ill health. She wasn't supposed to be pregnant, there were all kinds of complications, she couldn't survive a cesarean section etc. She said, "They didn't hand me a child, they handed me a purple melon." I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, Children, Hands

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

  O. Henry

  Medicine, Funeral, Patient

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics

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• In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

  Maxim Gorky

  Past, Maxims

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• If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspiring, Father, Home

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• You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding — of course Will would understand.

  Cassandra Clare

  Letting Go, Reading, Book

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• You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.

  Scott Lynch

  Needs, Kingdoms, Crosses

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1540, Del Rey

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• Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

  Lillian Hellman

  Baby, Believe, Views

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

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• Dear A & M, I talked to the manager of the Beauty Bar because I definitely saw you guys getting married against a hot pink backdrop, but he doesn't think we can fit more than fifty people inside and I'm thinking three hundred. How would you feel about getting married in the park? It might get cold, but you could ride a horse-drawn carriage to the ceremony. How do you feel about matching wedding crowns? -Isabelle

  Cassandra Clare

  Horse, Thinking, People

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• When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What beautiful stars and what a glorious night!" the Secretary said "Yes," but seemed to prefer to see the night and the stars in the light of her lovely little countenance, to looking out of window.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Beautiful, Stars

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.461

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• It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Civilization, Mind, Example

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.

  Winston Churchill

  Ideas, Fit, Embrace

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

  Horace

  Travel, Happy Life, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 11. 27, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 809-11, 1922.

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• I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

  Dolley Madison

  Paper, Cabinets, Wagons

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.

  Honor Blackman

  Relax, Quiet, Ifs

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• By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.

  Max Nordau

  Flying, Generations, Machines

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• Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.

  Confucius

  Honesty, Principles, Yoke

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• When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

  Laozi

  Horse, War, Cities

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• In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Men, June

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.852, Delphi Classics

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• Hello?” I peered into the shadows. Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall. “And may I wish a very good morning to you, too, October.” The voice was amused, underscored by a chuckle like thick cream. “What happened? Did the prettiest little princess miss her carriage home?

  Mira Grant

  Morning, Wall, Princess

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• In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.

  Adam Rapp

  Simple, People, Forever

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• Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants run together, his voice rising and falling melodically: “Ni hen piao liang.” “What did you say?” Tessa was curious. “I said your hair is coming undone — here,” he said, and reached out and tucked an escaping curl back behind her ear. Tessa felt the blood spill hot up into her face, and was glad for the dimness of the carriage. “You have to be careful with it,” he said, taking his hand back, slowly, his fingers lingering against her cheek.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Fall, Hair

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• When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon carriages of necessary use, such as carts, wagons, etc. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute in a very easy manner to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Luxury, Necessary Use

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1870). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”

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