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• Don't get me wrong. I like Disney World. The rest rooms are clean enough for neurosurgery, and the employees say things like "Howdy, folks!" and actually seem to mean it. You wonder: Where do they get these people? My guess: 1952. I think old Walt realized, way back then, that there would eventually be a shortage of cheerful people, so he put all the residents of south western Nebraska into a giant freezer with a huge picture of Jiminy Cricket on the outside, and the corporation has been thawing them out as needed ever since.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Mean

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.69, Crown Archetype

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• I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.

  Berti Vogts

  Football, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.china.org.cn

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• The future of human relationships will be directly related to the cerebral functions. For this reason it is already a fundamental thing. In the past, and well until today, some South American countries have had a great neuropharmacological history, since the natives' times. It is necessary that we remind ourselves of the many licit and illicit drugs that were generated in our continent and that act on the brain.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Country, Past, Drug

  Source: www.cerebromente.org.br

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• In fact, every place I've been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta , parts of Central and South America , I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.

  Henry Rollins

  Nice, America, Body

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• America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America have a very similar history. It's different timelines, but the directions we've taken and the consequences - dealing with the aftermath of what we consider to be democracy, and realizing that freedom is just the beginning of the conversation, that's something I've learned.

  Trevor Noah

  Taken, America, Democracy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Lyndon Johnson wanted to emancipate the whites as much as people of color, because he knew how, particularly in the South, but not only in the South, we were so restricted. And he wanted everybody to live up to the best that God gave them and use those tools of education and have good health care, to be able to do the things to make America great.

  Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

  Color, America, People

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• You don't want the United States to become South America, where you have a super collection of rich people at the tippy-top of society, they are surrounded by barbed wire living in McMansions with security guards, and the rest of the society is suffering, and you've got a broken educational system and a broken government.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Educational, Government, Security Guards

  ""Life Is Unfair": Talking Inequality With The Hedge Fund Industry's Biggest Cheerleader". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 5, 2015.

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• You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

  Dan O'Brien

  Writing, Winter, House

  Dan O'Brien (2007). “Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch”, p.171, Random House

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• The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.

  Peter Cook

  Garden, Eden, Swamps

  "Fictional character: George Spiggott". "Bedazzled", www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

  Tim Johnson

  Wind, Oil, America

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• In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

  John Moody

  War, Land, Government

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• ..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves, and Congress provide no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to observe the compact. A bargain can not be broken on one side, and still bind the other side.

  Daniel Webster

  War, Broken, Restoration

  Henry Rootes Jackson, Joseph M. Brown, Daniel Webster (1891*). “The Wanderer Case: The Speech of Hon. Henry R. Jackson of Savannah, Ga”

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• Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. We knew from that moment that things can go terribly wrong in our world-not because life is unfair, or moral progress impossible, but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions of our ignorant ancestors.

  Sam Harris

  Years, Our World, Ignorant

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• It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

  Chris Rose

  Essence, Brass Bands, Tolerance

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is false. Also, if the earth were flat from north to south and vice versa, the stars which were always visible to anyone would continue to be so wherever he went, which is false. But it seems flat to human sight because it is so extensive.

  Ptolemy

  Stars, Sight, West

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• The National Liberation Front was not...a viable, autonomous organization with a life of its own; it was a facade, a "front," by means of which the DLD (the North Vietnamese Communist Party) sought to mobilize the people in the South to accomplish its ends, and to garner international sympathy and support.

  George Allen

  War, Party, Mean

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• For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.

  Henry Miller

  Dog, Travel, Cat

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• For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

  Lord Byron

  Kissing, Hands, Gentleman

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.136

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• Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.

  Lillian Smith

  Christian, Children, Home

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• My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm on the top of the North or South Tower in 9/11, wondering whether I'm going to be burnt to death or I'm going to jump. And I think I would burn to death. And yet I'm impressed by the fact that hundreds didn't.

  Ian Mcewan

  Fall, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I love New York for being New York. I love L.A. for being L.A. But when it comes home, I'm a Midwest, South type of dude. I like open roads, I like to drive, and it may not be as fast, but it's definitely a place where you get to appreciate a lot more. Not saying that you don't up here, but that's not what I'm accustomed to.

  Nelly

  New York, Home, Appreciate

  Source: www.complex.com

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• There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.

  Ridley Scott

  Wine, Thinking, California

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

  Ransom Riggs

  Growing Up, Kids, Florida

  Ransom Riggs (2012). “Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• We were in Greenville, South Carolina, where he lived, and he was coming the next day to the show, but he passed away the night before. I was very close to my grandfather. He was the first guy to teach me how to ride a motorcycle, so (his death) meant a lot to me. It just gave me a perspective on life and how important it is to live it and enjoy it while we're here. Sometimes we're looking for the grass to be greener, and what's awesome is right in front of you.

  Bret Michaels

  Night, Next Day, Perspective

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• When I first went to Europe, I thought I was going to move there. I was making plans to move to the south of Spain. It's such a cute, innocent thought. I think we all go through it.

  Eva Mendes

  Cute, Moving, Thinking

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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