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• The Red Army...   swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

  George F. Kennan

  Army, Population, Clean

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• The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.

  Brian Aldiss

  Wall, Chinese, Emeralds

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• We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.

  Brian Aldiss

  Coffee, White, Understanding

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• I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, People, Parent

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.9, Anchor

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• My first car was a Chevy Cavalier. My dad somehow convinced me that it was a hot sports car because it was red.

  Katheryn Winnick

  Sports, Dad, Car

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

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• If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society - the areas of crisis and failure - we find in each and every case a “red thread” marking and uniting them all: the thread of government. In every one of these cases, government either has totally run or heavily influenced the activity.

  Murray Rothbard

  Running, Government, Uniting

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.95, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If you tell me that the sky is red, I will look up.

  Monica Raymund

  Sky, Looks, Look Up

  "Lie to Me Star Teases Big Twists, Big Guest Stars". Interview with Matt Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour.

  Lily Cole

  Pale Skin, Ravens, Black

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

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• This is the face of our political class: arrogant, authoritarian, and on the level of some banana republic south of the border. Welcome to the New America, where leader-worship has taken the place of politics, Team Red and Team Blue battle it out to see who gets to be El Supremo for the next four years, and politics resembles a prolonged soccer game.

  Justin Raimondo

  Soccer, Team, Taken

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• Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

  Martial

  Men, Black, Good Man

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• There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

  Willa Cather

  Spring, Sunshine, Clouds

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Children, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Loyalty, Horse, Integrity

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• In the embers shining bright
  A garden grows for thy delight,
  With roses yellow, red, and white.
  But, O my child, beware, beware!
  Touch not the roses growing there,
  For every rose a thorn doth bear.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Children, Garden, Yellow

  Richard Watson Gilder (1885). “Lyrics”

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• Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Wine, Law

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.128, Vintage

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• There was a time when the respect and trust my children had for me would have made you sick to your stomach. They believed I could blow on a red traffic light and turn it green.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Blow, Light

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.139, Fawcett

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• The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush. They have incredibly long legs and bizarre and recherché curves of their necks and bodies, as if from some exquisite traditional prudery they were making all attitudes and movements in life as difficult as possible.

  Isak Dinesen

  Attitude, Curves, Long

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• He knows enough, the mariner, who knows
  Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil,
  What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds
  He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause
  Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave;
  Whence those impetuous currents in the main
  Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why
  The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure
  As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven.

  John Armstrong

  Sea, Heaven, Mind

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.37

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• Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well,
  The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell,
  Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.

  Robert Browning

  Children, Blow, Blood

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.145, Pearson Education

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• O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

  John Milton

  Sweet, Art, Sight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 896

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• There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.

  Agatha Christie

  Light, Color, People

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• It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a gray slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point in writing down phone numbers and forking out for expensive lunches because it's never going to be a runner.

  Helen Fielding

  Writing, Shoes, Lunch

  Bridget Jones's Diary "January" (1996)

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• If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time.

  Diane Ackerman

  Fall, Two, Mammals

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.77, Vintage

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• Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant -- see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention.

  Judith Martin

  Hair, Attention, Too Much

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• The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow.

  Jean Ingelow

  Fog, Long, Camels

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.86

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