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"GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a crop is a crop, And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?"

Running Light Color
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Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?"

Mind Color Essence
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Lara Stone Model
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"It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?"

Nice Color Lips
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Lauren Oliver Author
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"I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating."

Country Color Kissing
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Isabel Allende Novelist
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"She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying."

Reality Journey Color
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Color

"The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors."

Self Color Philosophical
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Frank Porter Graham Politician, Educator
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"In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old university, the first state university to open its doors, stands on a hill set in the midst of beautiful forests under the skies that give their color and their charm to the life of youth gathered here . . . there is music in the air of the place."

Beautiful Color Sky
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Nina Campbell Interior Designer, Author
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"A stylish throw. A good quality throw can last a lifetime and adds a dash of color and pattern as well as comfort and a homey quality."

Color Quality Comfort
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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician
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"I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become."

Past Memories Color
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Color

"Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing."

Color Dance Vocabulary
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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture - takes it place among the many and becomes a valuable memory and treasure. At midnight the winged messengers come and gather up all these pieces and take them off to wherever the mosaic is kept. And surely, on occasion, one messenger says to another, 'Wait 'til you see this one.'"

Character Memories Color
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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient."

Character Color Sake
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'"

People America Color
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away."

Christian Jesus Color
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