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• Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train to Lisbon is a very long, ambitious book that's feverishly overwritten. (...) Think of W.G. Sebald recast for the mass market: stripped of nuance, cooked at high temperature and pounded home, clause after clause. Some of the clumsiness derives from Barbara Harshav's inelegant translation -- we're often aware of her struggle -- but she can't be blamed for the pervasive bloat.

  Michelle Huneven

  Spiritual, Struggle, Book

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• My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

  Frank Bruno

  Men, Boxing, Guy

  "Frank Bruno schools young boxers on Dereck Chisora and David Haye" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

  Ivan Illich

  Doctors, Long, Physicians

  Medical Nemesis

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• I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Writing, Car, Music Is

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• The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

  E. B. White

  Race, Glasses, Car

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• Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Trying, Sorting Out

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2015). “Stories and Prose Poems”, p.185, Macmillan

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• The summer day is closed - the sun is set:
  Well they have done their office, those bright hours,
  The latest of whose train goes softly out
  In the red west. The green blade of the ground
  Has risen, and herds have cropped it; the young twig
  Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun;
  Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown
  And withered; seeds have fallen upon the soil,
  From bursting cells, and in their graves await
  Their resurrection. Insects from the pools
  Have filled the air awhile with humming wings,
  That now are still for ever; painted moths
  Have wandered the blue sky, and died again

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Flower, Garden

  William Cullen Bryant, “From: An Evening Revery”

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• The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Practice, Brain, Doe

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• Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.

  Kevin Myers

  Kids, People, Tools

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• It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Training, Principles

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.347, Delphi Classics

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• We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Military, Males, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.257, Algora Publishing

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• The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

  Max Lerner

  Dare, Educate

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.

  Gilbert Adair

  New York, Space, Rude

  Gilbert Adair (1986). “Myths & memories”, HarperCollins

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• Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Patience, Foolish, Parliament

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.619, Lulu.com

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• The important things are to train hard, and not give up  hope.

  Lasse Viren

  Giving Up, Train Hard, Important

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• My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

  Jack Tatum

  Football, Believe, Ideas

  Jack Tatum, Bill Kushner (1980). “They Call Me Assassin”, Avon Books

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• That's what sometimes separates people who always run and always train and people who maybe move on in life and do something else. I think I'm a lot more likely to be someone like Joan Benoit (Samuelson), who keeps going forever, just because I actually really like it, as opposed to someone who stops and never runs again.

  Dathan Ritzenhein

  Running, Moving, Thinking

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• Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Beach, Doctors, People

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• The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar on 'Mystery Train.' You're not gonna get that in a computer. You're gonna want a live room, you're gonna wanna bounce the tape, you're gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin' off of each other.

  Channing Tatum

  Real, Guitar, Soul

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• God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fire, Iron, Water

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.74, Dial Press

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• I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.

  John Cheever

  Love, Rain, Snow

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• There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

  Samuel Smiles

  Consequence

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.9

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• The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.

  Paul Theroux

  Patience, People, Waiting

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Landscape, Worst

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built.

  Susan Faludi

  Movement, Wonder, Neighborhood

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