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• Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.

  Owen Feltham

  Humble, Humility, Conceited

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.

  Stephen Spender

  Running, Rain, Tears

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Kissing, Winter, Yellow

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• If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my side There's a roof above and good walls all around You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome I need you in my house 'cause you're my home.

  Billy Joel

  Home, Long, House

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Nov 08, 2013

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• There's a place in the world for the angry young man
  With his working class ties and his radical plans
  He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl
  He's always at home with his back to the wall
  And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost
  And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross
  And he likes to be known as the angry young man.

  Billy Joel

  Struggle, Home, Men

  "Prelude". Song by Billy Joel, 1976.

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• The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.

  Hans Hofmann

  Ideas, Space, Squares

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.60, MIT Press

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• Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Christian, Art, Stars

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• Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community - for example, another country or historical period... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.

  Richard Rorty

  Country, Moving, Thinking

  "Objectivity, Relativism and Truth (Postmodernist bourgeois liberalism)". Book by Richard Rorty (p. 197), 1991.

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• Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Together, Lines

  "President Obama Pitches Financial Reform". "NBC Nightly News" with Brian Williams, archives.nbclearn.com. April 22, 2010.

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• What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?

  Joshua Reynolds

  Wells, Chosen, Collections

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• The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish.

  Yukio Mishima

  Eye, Men, Evil

  "Runaway Horses". Book by Yukio Mishima translated by Michael Gallagher, 1973.

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• Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.

  Alan Lightman

  Beautiful, Strong, Feelings

  "Our Lonely Home in Nature". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

  Cat Stevens

  Silence, Mind, Shadow

  Song: Changes IV, Album: Teaser and the Firecat, 1971

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• A Christ upon paper, though it were the sacred pages of the Gospel, would have been as powerless to save Christendom as a Christ in fresco; not less feeble than the Countenance which, in the last stages of its decay, may be traced on the wall of the Refectory at Milan. A living Christ is the key to the phenomenon of Christian history.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Christian, Keys, Decay

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• If you have more fish on your wall than pictures, you might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Fishes

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• The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

  Roger Scruton

  Culture, Firsts, Difficult

  Roger Scruton (2013). “Modern Culture”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is not just that it is profoundly offensive to the leaders and people of a democratic Germany to paint Hitler on the wall (or on the remnants of the Wall). It is also consummately counterproductive. Such sauce does not make the meat of substantive criticism more interesting. It means that the whole dish is pushed away. It does not mean that Britain's voice is listened to more attentively in the councils of Europe. It means that it is listened to even less.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Mean, Europe, Voice

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• But at some point, you know that - you know what poem keeps going through my mind is, "first they came for the Jews." People, all of us, are like, "Well, this news doesn't really affect me." "Well, I'm not a bondholder." "Well, I'm not in the banking industry." "Well, I'm not a big CEO." "Well, I'm not on Wall Street." "Well, I'm not a car dealer." "I'm not an auto worker." Gang, at some point, they're going to come for you!

  Glenn Beck

  People, Car, Mind

  "Beck compares car dealership closures to Nazis; warns 'Gang, at some point, they're going to come for you'". "The Glenn Beck Program", www.mediamatters.org. June 10, 2009.

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• The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.

  Jean Chretien

  Art, Light, Games

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, 1985.

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• At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.

  Tommy Douglas

  Friday, War, Eye

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939.

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• There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

  Zooey Deschanel

  Lying, Thieves, Painting

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• you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing

  Benjamin Graham

  May, Profit, Obvious

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

  Benjamin Graham

  Principles, Investing, Prudent

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.144, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Talking, Years, People

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.23, The Floating Press

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• Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here - is - away from the easel - into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  New York, Taken, Alive

  "Interview by William Wright". as quoted in "Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics", ed. Clifford Ross, 1990, p.144, Summer 1950.

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