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• We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.

  Shaukat Aziz

  Needs, Pakistan, World

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• We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'

  Rand Paul

  Country, People, Reform

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• We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Successful, Lgbt Community, Bridges

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• I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was when he led 3,000 people on a conga out of the tent and across the entire site to a vegetarian food truck.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Thinking, People, Storm

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• I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Gold, Twenties

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.117, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• The atoms of Democritus
  And Newton's particles of light
  Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
  Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

  William Blake

  Light, Israel, Sea

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.108, Wordsworth Editions

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• If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Feet, Twenties

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• Love, why have you sought the horde
  of spearsmen, why the tent
  Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Rivers, Achilles

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.134, New Directions Publishing

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• I comfortably can say that I am a Republican and I always will be a Republican because the Republican party is a big tent and there was not always things that I agreed with or they didn't agree with me many times. But the fact of the matter is that's the philosophy, and everything that I've heard is exactly the same.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Philosophy, Party, Matter

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Home, Tree

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• Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

  James Montgomery

  Death, Moving, Home

  James Montgomery (1857). “The select poetical works of James Montgomery”, p.260

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• This is the year of expansion in the Kingdom of God! Tent pegs will span to the north, the south, the east, and the west in the realm of revelation in the dominion of the Kingdom, where you will walk in a greater dimension of the manifestation of the Kingdom for your life!

  Keith Miller

  Years, Expansion, East

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• I'm creating a peculiar place so that it will give hope for houses to open up worldwide. For I will need houses, the tents of the people, to display My glory. I will have the tent of meeting and the place that you will gather and come, but I need the houses of My people to be filled with My glory I will be filling your houses!

  Chuck Pierce

  Creating, People, Giving

  "Chuck Pierce: 'The Door of Secrets! The Civil Shift! SEE YOUR PROVISION! Days 26-32 of Revamping and Revitalizing!'". www.elijahlist.com. September 29, 2009.

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• I can't believe you brought me here to see some guy who heals people out of a tent!

  Dean Winchester

  Believe, People, Guy

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• I think festivals are way more easygoing than back-to-back tours are. 'Cause for me, when you get to go to a festival, you get to hang out all day, and you're really taken care of, and there's usually a little artist village where all the artists have their own tents, and it's catered, and then you go and play an hour-long set depending on where you are on the lineup. And then you go back and you hang out and you even get to go watch other artists play. So it's really just a fun interactive experience for everybody.

  Zella Day

  Fun, Taken, Artist

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves the rustic but martial ignorance of the legions in the elegant superfluities of life. A bag of shining leather, filled with pearls, fell into the hands of a private soldier; he carefully preserved the bag, but he threw away its contents, judging that whatever was of no use could not possibly be of any value.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ignorance, Hands, History

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1”, p.333

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• I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in an engagement, he immediately looked upon himself as a dead man. He then bravely fought out the remainder of the day, perfectly regardless of all manner of danger, as becomes a dead man to be. So that all the life or limbs he carried back again to his tent he reckoned as clear gains, or, as he himself expressed it, so much out of the fire.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Fire, Soldier

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• The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W Bush's America is a Christian nation, and that non-Christians are welcome into the tent so long as they agree to accept their status as a tolerated minority rather than as fully equal citizens. In effect, Bush is saying: "This is our home, and in our home we pray to Jesus as our savior. If you want to be a guest in our home, you must accept the way we pray."

  Alan Dershowitz

  Christian, Jesus, Home

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• When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I'd backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his 'On the Road' a sacred text.

  Tony D'Souza

  Summer, Grateful, Europe

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• My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.

  David Suzuki

  Memories, Father, Fishing

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• To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and tent city or whatever it's called.

  Joseph Bruce

  Cities, Fans, Phish

  "Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.

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• An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.

  James Russell Lowell

  Angel, Vision, Doorways

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.225

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• Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Night, Giving

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, chorus, l. 1

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• The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Doubt, Beacons

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sea, Two, Rivers

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.185

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