"The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping."
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"I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category."
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"A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night."
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"Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom."
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"New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it."
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"You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble."
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"Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow."
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"Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems."
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"I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower."
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"Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep."
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"it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon."
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"Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers."
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"A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street."
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"I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen."
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"It's true that non-ionizing radiation lacks the power to have damage. But its damage seems to come from its modulated signal. So every 900 milliseconds, if you have a cellphone in your pocket, it's getting half of that radiation which is getting into you as it seeks the signal from the tower."
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"I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up."
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"A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers."
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"In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top."
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"The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity."
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"Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower."
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