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• There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Space, Identity, Shapes

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• The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

  Juvenal

  Sweet, Wealth, Clean

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• Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Sports, Athlete, Sweat

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• We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Needs, Wade

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• I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of danger which is now banned from the classroom. I agree with those of us who feel that the wimpish chemistry training that schools are now forced to adopt is one possible reason that chemistry is no longer attracting as many talented and adventurous youngsters as it once did. If the decline in hands-on science education is not redressed, I doubt that we shall survive the 21st century.

  Harry Kroto

  Adventure, School, Hands

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• Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Thinking, Orange

  "Microserfs: Tran Shumanity" by Douglas Coupland, www.wired.com. July 1, 1995.

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• Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

  Mark Twain

  Coffee, Aggravation, Black

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.380, Velvet Element Books

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• Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.

  Catharine Beecher

  Coffee, Bags, Dry

  Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Inspirational, Life, Congratulations

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

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• One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

  Edward VII

  Wine, Taste, Drink

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• I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

  Helen Keller

  Educational, Names, Order

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• October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke.

  Ken Weber

  Autumn, Wind, Nuts

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• These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests, comfort of the grass, Music of birds, murmur of little rills, Shadows of cloud that swiftly pass, And, after showers, The smell of flowers And of the good brown earth,- And best of all, along the way, friendship and mirth.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Friendship, Peace, Flower

  Henry Van Dyke, “God Of The Open Air”

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• My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

  Alexander Smith

  Sweet, Nature, Garden

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition

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• Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

  Tori Amos

  Death, Suicide, Spirit

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• I thought I was fooling people. But it's the old thing of 'they say vodka doesn't smell'. No, not until you sweat. And you just lie and lie and you think 'I can deal with this'. And then you finally go, 'No you can't'. And then you give up.

  Robin Williams

  Suicide, Giving Up, Lying

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• There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

  Don DeLillo

  Sweet, Nature, Fear

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.303, Vintage

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• I could smell myself awake with that coffee.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Coffee, Awake

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• Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Flower, Rose, Wells

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.185, eBookIt.com

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• If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.

  David Ignatow

  Flower, Cracks, Want

  "Poems, 1934-1969".

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• Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose.
  For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, Air

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• I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come to see the apartment, there was the thrill of the date. You want to be presentable, so you clean the place up, make sure it smells good, put on some mood lighting and mellow music.

  Anderson Cooper

  New York, Emotional, Dating

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• Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sight, Cities, Soul

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• Christian Deodorant: "Thou Shalt Not Smell"

  George Carlin

  Christian, Humorous, Deodorant

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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