Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them."
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Sat
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Bobby Gould
Producer
"I've sat on the hot seat and I felt its hotness"
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"I sat in a garage and invented the future."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried."
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"Jesus sat down to demonstrate to us that the work is indeed finished."
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"We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable."
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"If I sat down in any room, I'd have as much to learn from anybody in that room as they'd have to learn from me. If I sit down and just really listen and hear who you are and what you have to say, what you fears are, what your ambitions are, and what your vision is, I have just as much to learn from you as you have to learn from me."
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"Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on."
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"Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more."
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"I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun."
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"He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing."
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"We're kind of a weird band anyway, where we never fit in with indie or pop. We never really sat with either of those genres fully."
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"It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs."
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