How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.
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My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me.
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Maria Lopez från Rio de Janeiro gjorde ett fallskärmshopp som var tänkt att avslutas i en Brasilianskt nudistläger. Naturligtvis hade hon klätt sig i, för förhållandena lämplig utstyrsel, dvs fallskärm och inte en tråd mer.
Vädrets makter hade tydligen för avsikt att spela Maria ett spratt, för vindarna förde henne bort från lägret och rakt mot El Loko fängelset där hon slutligen landade på rastgården mitt bland 200 livstidsdömda våldsbrottslingar.
Det blev väldigt oroligt bland fångarna under några ögonblick, var fängelseledningens kommentar efter incidenten.
Man kan nästan misstänka att det uttalandet var en stark underdrift...
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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.
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You told me, I remember, glory, built On selfish principles, is shame and guilt; The deeds that men admire as half divine, Stark naught, because corrupt in their design. Strange doctrine this! that without scruple tears The laurel that the very lightning spares; Brings down the warrior
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Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said
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This year, we put a lot more emphasis in the relays and scoring. We've been learning over the past three years, but we came a long way.
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Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
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My father used to say: Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common.
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
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Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.
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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
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I held her in my arms, and her pressure fell and she went to sleep in my arms.
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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.
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Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
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If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again.
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Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot even make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
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