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• Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

  Myrlie Evers-Williams

  Brother, White, Crow

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• The other nice thing about the robes is that they keep you cool in the summer, and we were filming sometimes in Rome, where it was sometimes over 100 degrees.

  Jude Law

  Summer, Nice, Rome

  "#ManCrushMonday: Jude Law". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 14, 2016.

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• The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Integrity, Men

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• When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Morning, Stars, Fall

  'The American Flag' in New York Evening Post, 29 May 1819 (attributed also to Fitz-Greene Halleck)

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• I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds.

  Joan Lunden

  Home, America, People

  "Deborah Norville Tonight", www.nbcnews.com. May 14, 2004.

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• Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Home, Hair, Gone

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• Those clouds are angels' robes.

  Charles Kingsley

  Angel, Clouds

  Charles Kingsley (1875). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, &c”, p.34

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• Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

  John Milton

  Majestic, Sober, Demure

  John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson”, p.191

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• Fear is the trick of the enemy. And your enemy comes in many robes. But he has only one face. You know his face. You've seen it many times. You need not fear it. In your heart, you know you will triumph and you will defeat your enemy with the one weapon that you have inside you that he cannot touch--truth.

  Michael Hainey

  Heart, Enemy, Triumph

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• Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.

  Amy-Jill Levine

  Men, Long, Church

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• Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own. Just shadows, lamb-white hands beneath black robes spun of tears, glide among the celebrants on this night wherein the spirits of Thebes have found a home, if serendipitously.

  Janet Morris

  Beach, Home, Fate

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.176, Paradise Publishing

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• Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no one seeks costly garments except for vainglory, that he may seem more honorable than others; for no one wishes to be clothed with such, where he cannot be seen by others.

  Pope Gregory I

  Wish, May, Faults

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• How'd we come up with the robe? Was some guy just like, 'Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't we make a coat out of a towel? You can have a little belt that goes around. You could dunk the belt in the toilet! Have a toilet belt.'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Ideas, Guy, Towels

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• In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Children, Heart, Dark

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• I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.
  The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.

  Pico Iyer

  Rain, Sleep, Autumn

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