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• At Arcueil ... I dined in distinguished company... There was a lot of very interesting discussion. It is these gatherings which are the joy of life.

  Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

  Interesting, Joy, Distinguished

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• As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ocean, Inspiration, Men

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.93, Beacon Press

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• I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Winning, People

  "Anne Enright: 'I was always on the side. Like a salad'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

  Preet Bharara

  Worry, United States, Manhattan

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• Churches provide a place of gathering for people who share common beliefs, support and encouragement for each other in faith, a place to find insight into and teaching about God's Word, and they provide a time and place where people can leave the world behind and focus only on their spiritual relationship with God.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Ice, Entertainment

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• The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don’t need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to go there, to gather and think deep thoughts together.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Thinking, Axes

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• [T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.

  Wallace Stegner

  Summer, Football, Mistake

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• A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.

  Deb Caletti

  Princess, Snow, Poison

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• I have no idea what a high school party looks like. I was just with my friend, and we were walking down Venice and there was this gathering of people playing Bongo drums, and so after dinner we sat down with them and played Bongo drums for a while. That's the closest thing I've gotten to a high school experience, meeting strangers and just hanging out with them.

  Ashley Rickards

  Party, School, Venice

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• I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)

  Ronald Reagan

  White, House, News

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• Since you and Crispin are now finished and I have a few hours to kill, how about that shag?” he asked with heavy irony. “Bite me,” I sighed, gathering up the pages. He winked. “Of course. My second-favorite thing to do in bed.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Bed, Pages, Favorites Things

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• This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought of you, before this minute upon another minute upon another Until, numb, my lips fell onto the mouth of another, and I was undone. ~from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter which is a fictional book in Ballad: A gathering of faerie

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Summer, Sweet

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie”, p.131, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

  Charles Dickens

  Shadow, Awful, Degrees

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Books and Stories [A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, A Christmas Tree, The Cricket on the Hearth, etc] (Book House)”, p.207, Book House

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• If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

  Amy Sedaris

  Party, Drinking, Cat

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• many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.

  Peg Bracken

  Truth, Color, People

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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• Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

  George Eliot

  Death, Years, Shadow

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6956, Delphi Classics

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• I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.

  Heber J. Grant

  Opportunity, Saint, Latter

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• A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Dancing, Feelings

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• ...there's no such thing as sustainability. There are just levels of it. It's a process, not a real goal. All you can do is work toward it. There's no such thing as any sustainable economy. The only thing I know that's even close to sustainable economic activity would be organic farming on a very small scale or hunting and gathering on a very small scale. And manufacturing, you end up with way more waste than you end up with finished product. It's totally unsustainable. It's just the way it is.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Real, Hunting

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• Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Successful, Simple, Two

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• Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Vaccines, Special

  "Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

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• The investigators are gathering evidence all the time and they've put together a package of evidence.

  Doug Graham

  Together, Evidence, Packages

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