"But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back."
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"You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation."
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"Since you and Crispin are now finished and I have a few hours to kill, how about that shag?” he asked with heavy irony. “Bite me,” I sighed, gathering up the pages. He winked. “Of course. My second-favorite thing to do in bed."
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"All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality."
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"The investigators are gathering evidence all the time and they've put together a package of evidence."
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"Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world."
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"Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy."
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"He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence."
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"As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere."
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"Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either."
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"I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)"
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"IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected."
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"Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers."
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"Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself."
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"My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task."
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"There are already a number of gatherings centered around women of color who are doing inspiring work."
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"My thoughts ran a wool-gathering."
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"Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior."
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"Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t know any of the characters yet so why should I care about this battle) or with a pastoral scene where the protagonist is gathering herbs (I didn’t realize how common this is)."
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