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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

~Alexander Herzen

Topics: Beauty Breadth Captive Development Fences Get Held Human Human Nature Must Nature Over Power She Which Within Woman

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Australia was a very different world and culture from the one I left in Europe. Life was much more spread out. People drove everywhere. They built higher fences. Neighbours didn't interact so much.

~Andreja Pejic

Topics: Australia Built Culture Different Different World Drove Europe Everywhere Fences Higher Interact Left Life More Much Neighbours Out People Spread Very World

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Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

~Aurora

Topics: Across Different Drag Fence Fences Just Laugh Like Love Make Me Metal People Sounds Stick I Love

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It was a big thing for me to read black writers. 'Fences,' by August Wilson. James Baldwin's 'Amen Corner.' 'The Fire Next Time.' 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' of course.

~Chadwick Boseman

Topics: Amen August Autobiography Big Big Thing Black Corner Course Fences Fire James Malcolm Malcolm X Me Next Next Time Read Thing Time Wilson Writers

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Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to my day.

~Chip Gaines

Topics: Animals Checking Day Eggs Farm Feeding Fences Field Filling Four Gathering Getting High Letting Morning Out Point Quiet Tend Up Water While World

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Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Among Back Fences Like Lists Literary Open Other Pleased Range Secretly Seemed Young

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I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.

~Colm Toibin

Topics: Becoming Bishop Boy Clothes Did Fences Girl God Going Good Knocking Late Made Nice Other Out Over Priest Quite Think Thinking Very Were Would

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In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

~Dan Miller

Topics: Alaska British Columbia Fences Good He His Like Line Make Neighbors One Line Poem Pretty Prove Said Think Together Without Working Working Together

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When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

~David Nevins

Topics: Ambition Avoid Expected Fences Hard Programming Risks Simple Storytelling Swinging Taking Taking Risks Than Try Very

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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

~Dogen

Topics: Attain Enlightenment Fences Plants Practice Sincerely Trees Walls Will Working

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