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• I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.

  Dylan Thomas

  Beer, Glasses, White

  Dylan Thomas (1986). “The Collected Stories”, p.211, New Directions Publishing

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• Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Work, Eye

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is "Sound," and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Business, Believe

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• Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Real, Would Be

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.

  Emily Dickinson

  Glasses, Letters, Revelations

  Emily Dickinson (1959). “Selected poems and letters of Emily Dickinson: together with Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst”, Turtleback

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• Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Healthy, Important

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• The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

  Bob Dylan

  Future, Battle, Window

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• All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Rain, Justice

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• I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know.

  Tori Amos

  Hands, Shoes, Architecture

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• You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.

  Arnold Hano

  Crazy, Cat, Saws

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• I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Heartbroken, Believe, Mean

  "Elizabeth Wurtzel Confronts Her One-Night Stand of a Life". www.thecut.com. January 6, 2013.

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• I think I'll paint roads
  on my front room walls
  to convince myself
  that I'm going places

  Lemn Sissay

  Thinking, Rooms, Paint

  Lemn Sissay (2016). “Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems”, p.102, Canongate Books

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• All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.

  Luis Barragan

  Spiritual, Mistake, Glasses

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• Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out just by sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company.

  Peter Lynch

  Horse, Thinking, Giving

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the tangled web of our fate was inescapable. Why did these women love each other to the point of madness? Why did they loathe one another so vehemently, and why did sworn enemies feel such horror and fascination for one another? Why should furious hate become obsession, then intoxication and the very reason to live?Because love and hate were the two heads of the demon.

  Shan Sa

  Hate, Fate, Garden

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• We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

  Mark Lawrence

  Trapped

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• Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the one thing that strikes you most forcibly is how little either stock speculation or stock speculators today differ from yesterday. The game does not change and neither does human nature.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Games, Indulge In, Yesterday

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons

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• Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor.

  Charles Dow

  Pride, Men, Opinion

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• The steady improvement in [home] sales will support price appreciation...[despite] all the wild projections by academics, Wall Street analysts, and others in the media.

  David Lereah

  Appreciation, Home, Media

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• Who says you can't rock Wall Street and wear purple at the same time? Jennifer Lee opens the door for artists, healers, and brilliant souls to take their passion into the marketplace.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Passion, Artist, Rocks

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• Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Race, Feelings, Library

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• Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Memories, Fall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.68, University of Missouri Press

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• By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the desert and the lake. It was her stern necessity : all things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower, Song, picture, form, space, thought, and character Deceive us, seeming to be many things, And are but one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Nature, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.159, The Floating Press

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• And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would out-produce the United States by 1970. Without wishing to trade hyperbole with the Chairman, I do suggest that he reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he his caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

  John F. Kennedy

  Past, Ideas, Long

  News Conferences, www.jfklibrary.org. June 28, 1961.

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• Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.

  E. M. Forster

  War, Nerves, Minorities

  "The Life to Come (and Other Stories)". Book by E. M. Forster, 1972.

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