“ The shades of night were falling fast, As though an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device,. ”
- Excelsior- Copy
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“ In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do. ”
- Earl Warren- Copy
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“ I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis. ”
- George Montgomery- Copy
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“ I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit. ”
- Stephen Dunn- Copy
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“ Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. ”
- John Howard Payne- Copy
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“ You learn to build your roads on today, because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans, and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. ”
- Veronica Shoffstal- Copy
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“ Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s. ”
- Jessica Simpson- Copy
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“ By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
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“ When I went to Broadway in the mid-sixties, everybody was trying to emulate Al Pacino and Robert De Niro and here I was kind of the wholesome 'All-American Boy' from the mid-west with the big toothy smile; so I kind of stood out - a rare kind of a thing for that kind of venue. ”
- John Davidson- Copy
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“ I had quite a repressed childhood. I was born in '55 and by the mid '60s it was still very much a sort of '50s mentality there, being so remote. I just found it stifling. And at some point - I think I was about 12 - I came to the conclusion that it was going to be difficult to survive that little society somehow intact. ”
- Judy Davis- Copy
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“ Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. ”
- Barbara Mikulski- Copy
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“ I like playing villains - villains that aren't that bright, you know? That's always good. You experiment with a look and everything else. I'm thinking, 'OK, this is a guy, I think I can finally bring some mustaches out of the drawer.' I can see exactly what the look is… ”
- Eugene Levy- Copy
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“ In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I'm having lunch with my granddaughter… ”
- Arthur Hertzberg- Copy
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“ Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat's cheese…get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century. ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
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