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• On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Death, Eye

  "Under Ben Bulben" l. 89 (1939). The final three lines are in fact inscribed on Yeats's gravestone.

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• From that day on, I ran from spot to spot.

  Enos Slaughter

  Slaughter, Ran

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• All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.

  Diana Vreeland

  Buddhist, Children, Color

  Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage

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• Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.

  Rich Little

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points; and his forces being thus distributed in many directions, the numbers we shall have to face at any given point will be proportionately few.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Fighting, Numbers

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.20, FastPencil Inc

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• It happens the world over - we love ourselves more than we do the one we say we love. We all want to be Number One, we've got to be Number One or nothing! We can't see that we could make ourselves loved and needed in the Number Two, or Three, or Four spot. No sir, we've got to be Number One, and if we can't make it, we'll rip and tear at the loved one till we've ruined every smidgin of love that was ever there.

  Irene Hunt

  Rip, Two, Numbers

  Irene Hunt (2005). “Up a Road Slowly”, p.29, Penguin

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• Now women are funny animals. You never know when you are with them - they don’t often know where they are with themselves . It’s no good trying to find out what makes them tick. It just can’t be done. They have more moods than an army of cats with lives, and all you can hope is to spot the mood you’re after when it turns up and step in quick. Hesitate you’re a dead duck, unless you’re one of those guys who like slow approach that might get you somewhere in a week or in a month or even a year.

  James Hadley Chase

  Relationship, Sex, Women

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• Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

  Harvey Mackay

  Disappointment, Way, Obstacles

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• Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Shining, Moments, Camelot

  "Camelot" (song) (1960)

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• I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Nice, Believe, Order

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• TV can reach broad audiences, mass audiences, niche audiences; it can be local, regional, national; it can be spots, sponsorship, interactive. It can be anything you want it to be. I tend to think of TV as the Swiss Army knife of media, it's got something for everybody.

  Nick Manning

  Army, Thinking, Media

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• I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.

  DeWitt Bodeen

  Rose, Amber, Use

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• Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

  David Amram

  July, Issues, Horny

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• The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.

  Mary Bono

  Struggle, Internet, Economy

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• The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.

  James R Newman

  Math, Discovery, Achievement

  James R. Newman (2000). “The World of Mathematics”, p.820, Рипол Классик

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• Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

  Joseph Hume

  Land, Produce, Valuable

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• So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

  Sally Kirkland

  May, Talent, Ability

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• They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

  John Lee Hooker

  Cheating, Play, Long

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• Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Cat, Thinking, Sheep

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• Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for home-based health care.

  David Mixner

  Home, Heart, Aids Epidemic

  "Millions of Lives Will Be Changed By Home Health Care Cuts" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Problems should be solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee should have to wait for a supervisor's permission

  Jan Carlzon

  Should Have, Waiting, Lines

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• It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Dream, Air, Machines

  Igor Ivan Sikorsky (1964). “Recollections and Thoughts of a Pioneer: Presented at the Wings Club on November 16, 1964, New York City”

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• The magic happens when you find the sweet spot where your genuine interests, skills, and opportunity intersect.

  Scott Belsky

  Sweet, Opportunity, Skills

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• I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

  Edward T. Hall

  Desert, May, Able

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• I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.

  Robyn Davidson

  Travel, Believe, Long

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