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• His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature."
  "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."

  Donald Barthelme

  Heart, Fur, Literature

  "Florence Green is 81". "Come Back, Dr. Caligari". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1964.

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• Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .

  Ramakrishna

  Ignorance, Attachment, Bliss

  Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

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• Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Sight, Flames, Class

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.

  David Livingstone

  Beautiful, Fall, Islands

  David Livingstone (1857). “Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa”, p.244

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• They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Song, Writing, Band

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

  Barbara Block

  Ocean, Technology, Two

  "Barbara Block: Use apps to save the great white shark". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy.

  Simon Baker

  Fantasy, Kind, Mummy

  "Fabulous Baker Boy". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 05, 2008.

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• Obamacare takes effect in less than eight months. Do you realize what this means? If you go to the emergency room now, you'll be covered by the time you finally see a doctor.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mean, Doctors, Eight

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• Congratulations to President Obama on being reelected president of the United States. Turns out it is not all bad news for the Republicans. It seems that depression is covered by Obamacare.

  Jay Leno

  Congratulations, Obamacare, President

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• Why is Mitt Romney not bragging: 'I covered all these people'? Why can't the Democrats sell the idea, we're trying to make you well? Is that such a hard sale?

  Bill Maher

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, Bodyguard, Persons

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• A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.

  Herman Wouk

  Roots, Attention, Dirt

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• As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

  Samuel Johnson

  Humility, Pride, Sometimes

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.108

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• The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dust, Devil, Not Afraid

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• Satan never wastes a fiery dart by aiming at a spot covered by armor. The bull's eye is located dead center in our inconsistency. That's where the enemy plans to bring us down.

  Beth Moore

  Eye, Enemy, Armor

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• The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.

  Edward Gibbon

  Exercise, Men, Land

  Edward Gibbon (1828). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.331

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• I've always been the type of person - you know, I kind of am extreme. So you know, I'm not, like, oh, let me get one tattoo. It's, like, my old whole arm has to be covered.

  LeCrae

  Tattoo, Arms, Kind

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• One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.

  Jason Polan

  Wall, Drawing, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.

  Eric Drooker

  New York, Men, Covered Up

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.

  Emilio Pucci

  Pieces, Woods, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I suffer from arachnophobia. I don't mind the tiny spiders so much, it's the ones with their legs covered in thick hair.

  Leona Lewis

  Hair, Mind, Suffering

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

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• I remember, like, literally saying - watching some cowboy-and-Indian movie with my mother, and I go, so, if we were back then, we'd be the Indians, right? She goes, yup, that's who we'd be. We wouldn't be those guys in the covered wagons. We'd be the Indians.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Mother, Cowboy, Guy

  "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

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• There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows. It may be catching. Unfortunately, it is not covered on the six o'clock news.

  Studs Terkel

  Dream, People, News

  Studs Terkel (1980). “American Dreams: Lost and Found”, p.25, The New Press

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• We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not control derivative work. And copyright law granted this protection for the limited time of 14 years.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Years, Law

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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• A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

  Harvey Milk

  Reading, Home, Independence

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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