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• In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Baby, Wall, Rain

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.16

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• For some people, the beginning is a time of complete chaos. You see bits and pieces of what is before you. You have a sense of what it is you must set out to do. But nothing will form yet. When you sit down to write or paint or form movement, it's like stepping over a cliff or into a dense fog. All you can do is trust that this impending masterpiece is going to somehow manifest itself as you work. But you do know that there is something specific ahead, and you feel the excitement of that.

  Vinita Hampton Wright

  Writing, People, Pieces

  Vinita Hampton Wright (2005). “The Soul Tells a Story: Engaging Creativity with Spirituality in the Writing Life”, p.69, InterVarsity Press

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• I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.

  Chuck Norris

  Motivational, Thinking, Goal

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• It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wall, Blue, Oakland

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.250, Penguin

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• One of the things I keep reminding players is that when you're lost in a fog, you must stick together. Then you don't get lost. If there's a secret about Liverpool, that's it.

  Bob Paisley

  Player, Secret, Together

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• Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Ignorance, Thinking, People

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• A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

  John Millington Synge

  Journey, Hiking, Islands

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Aran Islands and Connemara”, p.39, Mercier Press Ltd

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• Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.

  Raymond Chandler

  Trying, Sound, Surf

  raymond chandler (1966). “the big sleep”

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• The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Practice, Ideas

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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• We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Knowing, Frodo, Settings

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• The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

  H. G. Wells

  Gathering, Valleys, Economy

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.66, H. G. Wells

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• I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

  Peggy Noonan

  Love, Moving, Order

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Tattoo, New York, Stars

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• We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.

  James Young

  Strong, Marijuana, Thinking

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• Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.

  O. Henry

  Nashville, Giving, Sunrise

  O. Henry (1992). “The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

  Benjamin Britten

  Bricks And Mortar, Color, House

  "The Classical Music Experience: Discover the Music of the World's Greatest Composers". Book by Julius H. Jacobson (p.341), 2008.

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• The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

  Alexis Carrel

  Reality, Long, Atmosphere

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• All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Twilight, Action, Kind

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.140, Princeton University Press

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• But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Destiny, Thinking, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead (1954). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”

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• It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Clerks, Bankers, Banking

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• After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

  Brittany Murphy

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and team-sponsored blogs, player tweets, fanboy sites, rumor mills - churning bits of information and speculation into a clattering fog storm. Who will cut through the drivel and whim-wham to tell us what's really going on?

  Robert Lipsyte

  Team, Cutting, Player

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• They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away - the autumn, people, tomorrow. ("The North")

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Fall, Eye, Autumn

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• Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Fun, Knowledge, Science

  "Working Profile; Helping the Library of Congress Fulfill Its Mission" by Barbara Gamarekian, archive.nytimes.com. July 8, 1983.

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• A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.

  John Millington Synge

  Circles, Sight, Firsts

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.309, Wordsworth Editions

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