the cement wall of the clumsy calendar I live in, my life, and its hauled up notebooks.
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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
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Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced.... Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year
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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:
The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
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The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.
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Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.
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Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul! Sweetener of life and solder of society!
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[Tracy Ward was awarded third place in the feature writing category for her interview with] Dr. Death ... an excellent job of providing narrative mortar' to cement the quotes from Jack Kevorkian in place.
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If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
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Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: and has often, ...
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A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
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Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
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Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.
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... to improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement ...
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If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
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Drink wet cement and get really stoned.
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Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
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Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.
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