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Letter "S" » station
«Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.»
«I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(
Historian,
Political scientist)
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Keywords:
American Woman,
dependent,
domestic,
due to,
hesitation,
in some respects,
respects,
sphere,
station,
superiority,
With all due respect
«Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, you'd decide you wouldn't want it.»
«I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.»
Author: George Washington Carver
(
Chemist,
Educator,
horticulturist)
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About:
God,
Love,
Nature,
Thinking
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Keywords:
broadcasting,
broadcasting station,
broadcasts,
speaks,
station,
The Station,
tune,
tuned,
tune in,
tuning,
unlimited
«The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.»
Author: Stefan Kanfer
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Keywords:
catalogue,
catalogued,
catalogues,
commercial,
cry out,
cry out for,
miseries,
noonday,
opera,
soap,
soap opera,
soap operas,
spots,
station
«I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.»
«I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. [On being an actor]»
«How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.»
Author: Toni Morrison
(
Editor,
Teacher,
Writer)
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Keywords:
arrive at,
ferry,
get off,
glimpse,
lamps,
lighting,
riskiest,
risky,
selves,
station,
train station,
wasteful
«In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence»
«Life is a progress, and not a station.»