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• Any yellow, any blue, any red and a white are all I need.

  Andrew McDermott

  Blue, Yellow, White

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• At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.

  James Elkins

  Music, Fire, Rainbow

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• In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own.

  Victoria Finlay

  Unique, Fire, Blue

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.

  Titian

  White, Black, Three

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• We chat about clothes and if we're going on the red carpet we definitely talk about what we are going to wear.

  Bonnie Wright

  Clothes, Carpet, Ifs

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• I love a red lip - it's such a powerful statement. It exudes confidence and makes for a bold look.

  Prabal Gurung

  Powerful, Lips, Looks

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• Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names … Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Mean, Men, Opposites

  "The Flame is Green" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1971.

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• The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.

  George D. Prentice

  War, Rivers, Air

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• Already in 1915, Sophie Tauber divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly as Mondrian, Itten and Paul Klee did in the same period, fh). She constructs them as if they were masonry work. The colors are luminous, ranging from the raw yellow to deep red or blue.

  Hans Arp

  Squares, Blue, Color

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• O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Years, White, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.331

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• O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Crowns, Errands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Heart, League

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.406, Delphi Classics

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• I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow; I like the chaliced lilies, The heavy Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sweet, Garden, White

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.28

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• Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight.

  Amy Lowell

  Wall, Gay, Soldier

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

  William Carlos Williams

  Rain, White, Water

  "The Red Wheelbarrow" l. 1 (1923)

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• The Son of God goes forth to war,A kingly crown to gain;His blood red banner streams afar:Who follows in His train?Who best can drink his cup of woe,Triumphant over pain,Who patient bears his cross below,He follows in His train.

  Reginald Heber

  Pain, War, Son

  Reginald Heber (1827). “Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year”, p.17

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• Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Civilization, Numbers, Blue

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• I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Blue, America, Broken Promises

  "Obama misled with 'hope and change'" by Reince Priebus, www.politico.com. April 03, 2012.

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• Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood... In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Army, Order, Yellow

  Gamal Abdel Nasser's re-election speech (1965) as quoted in Efraim Karsh "Islamic Imperialism: A History" (p. 162), 2006.

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• Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

  Elvis Costello

  Angel, Wings, Shoes

  Song: (the Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes, Album: My Aim Is True

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• Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.

  Francis Beaumont

  Noses, Ginger, Thee

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• But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense something of which we might say, if we wished to talk about it, that 'this is red.'

  J. L. Austin

  Blue, Quality, Might

  "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 49), 1979.

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• Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career, to the effect that the ultimate value of studying other cultures was the use we could make of them to reconstruct our own - a heady kind of intellectual imperialism, as if the final meaning of others' lives was their significance for us.

  Margaret Mead

  Blue, Other Cultures, Careers

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• Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bigness excite Sensations of several Colours, much after the manner that the Vibrations of the Air, according to their several bignesses excite Sensations of several Sounds? And particularly do not the most refrangible Rays excite the shortest Vibrations for making a Sensation of deep violet, the least refrangible the largest form making a Sensation of deep red, and several intermediate sorts of Rays, Vibrations of several intermediate bignesses to make Sensations of several intemediate Colours?

  Isaac Newton

  Air, Rays, Sound

  "Opticks". Book Isaac Newton, Query 13, 1704.

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• If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army.

  Mao Zedong

  Army, Nine, Follow Me

  Speech at the Lushan Conference, July 23, 1959.

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