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• The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness. 'Extra! Extra! Zeppelins over the North Sea at 3 o'clock.' But under the umbrella, in the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Couple, Eye, Sea

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• The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Oil, Sides

  Jonathan Swift, “A Description Of A City Shower”

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Wisdom, Party

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• Rain is something the democrats use to sell umbrellas.

  Sarah Palin

  Rain, Use, Democrat

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• When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon.

  Peter Drucker

  Rain, People, Heaven

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• I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.

  Valerie Thomas

  Mean, Rainy Day, Men

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• This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to universal human rights as an 'unfinished project' to be gradually extended to all people is here a vain ideological chimera - and, faced with this prospect, do we, in the West, have any right to condemn the excluded when they use any means, inclusive of terror, to fight their exclusion?

  Slavoj Žižek

  Wall, Mean, Fighting

  Slavoj Žižek (2002). “Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates”, p.150, Verso

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• Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

  Zubin Mehta

  Advice, Ready, Music Making

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• Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Powerful, Sky, Tree

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• I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

  Merritt Wever

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

  Margaret Halsey

  Food, Dark, Cooking

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Self, Soul, Steel

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (1995). “Live from Death Row”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen!

  Fan Bingbing

  Sitting, Computer, Sunscreen

  Source: travel.cnn.com

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• Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.

  Margaret Mead

  Sight, Walking Sticks, Handbags

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Inanimate Objects, Depravity, Turns

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of the Island”, p.162, Youcanprint

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• A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

  David Nicholls

  Humor, Hands, Use

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• Lady Luck shines on all, but rather than having your umbrella overhead, you've got to have your face to the sky. When it comes down to it, it's all you, baby. There's no other way around it.

  Darren Hardy

  Baby, Shine On, Sky

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• Bring a raincoat, definitely ... or at Least a little umbrella that can fit in your bag, because it always does rain.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Rain, Doe, Bags

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• So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format.

  Lauren Oliver

  Mean, Bullets, Towels

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• What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

  Cory Doctorow

  Fighting, What If, Lightning

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.96, Macmillan

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• Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or "Umbrella" or whatever "revolutions", some more coups, "regime changes", direct invasions, bombing, propaganda warfare against China, Russia, Iran, South Africa and what is left of the Latin American revolutions. There would be plenty of torture in "secret centers", but it would not be as advertised and glorified as it would be if [Donald] Trump were elected.

  Andre Vltchek

  Latin, Russia, Iran

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.

  Blake Shelton

  Beach, Tree, Shade

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• All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus...Rooms in dreams are usually women...Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Tree, Uterus

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• You cannot possibly expect even the most illiterate person on Earth to believe that you really want a democracy in Iraq while you are paying Mubarak $3 billion a year to pretend he doesn't hate Israel. And you're providing the military and diplomatic umbrella that protects the fascist government, if you will, of the al Sauds.

  Michael Scheuer

  Hate, Military, Believe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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