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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of the fig tree, makes the low wall of coarse Granite warm to the touch. Here my tools lie ready and waiting, Each one an intimate, an ally: the round basket for weeds: The zappetta, the small hoe with a short haft . . . There's a rake here as well, at at times a mattock and spade, Or two watering cans filled with water warmed by the sun. With my basket and small hoe in hand, facing the sun, I Go out for my morning walk."

Morning Wall Weed
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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts."

Fall Wall Rivers
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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
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"O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city."

Wall Journey Death
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Barack Obama Politician
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"Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation."

Fall Together Wall
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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough."

Wall Community Appreciation
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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
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"His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room, thirty by twenty feet, and the walls of shelves filled with books, had for him the murmuring of many voices. In the books of Herodotus, Tacitus, Rabelais, Thomas Browne, John Milton, and scores of others, he had found men of face and voice more real to him than many a man he had met for a smoke and a talk."

Real Book Wall
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Dennis Miller Comedian
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"At some point you cannot be the kid in the glass bubble in this world. You might've heard throughout your grade school and high school years that it was a safe, nice, warm, fair, feeling place... but it can get brutal when it gets competitive. Especially when you succeed. Watch the detractors come out of the walls at that point."

School Nice Wall
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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"The corporate scandals are getting bigger and bigger. In a speech on Wall Street, President Bush spoke out on corporate responsibility, and he warned executives not to cook the books. Afterwards, Martha Stewart said the correct term was to saute the books."

Book Responsibility Wall
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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings."

Wall Dirty Ruins
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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there."

Writing Wall Pistols
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them."

Lying Spiritual Wall
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Ray Bradbury Author
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"He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?"

Light Wall Mirrors
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