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Does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not put a fence around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have bles... - MORE Does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not put a fence around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face."

unknown author

tests of faith | Job | suffering

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Everyone pushes a falling fence. Everyone pushes a falling fence.

unknown author

failure

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One fence needs three stakes; one able fellow needs three helpers. One fence needs three stakes; one able fellow needs three helpers.

unknown author

help | support | success

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...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me whe... - MORE ...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor—they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.

Albion Fellows Bacon

social work | poverty and the poor | compassion

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The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliver... - MORE The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliver and sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field.

Robert Benchley

curses

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Unchecked, the tourist will climb over the fence and come right into your house to take pictures of you in your habitat. Cities mi... - MORE Unchecked, the tourist will climb over the fence and come right into your house to take pictures of you in your habitat. Cities mindful of tourists have built elaborate "tourist traps" which, luckily, work. Tourists are kept confined to these, and few escape. There is, of course, the type known as the "intrepid tourist." This one has to be watched carefully or he can become most annoying. Little wonder these are so often the target of terrorists. If there is an aspect of benign terror about the tourist, there is also a great deal of tourist in the terrorist. Terrorists travel with only one thing in mind, just like the tourist, and the specifics of places escape them both. Terrorists travel for the purpose of shooting unsuspecting foreigners, just as tourists travel for the purpose of shooting them with a camera.

Andrei Codrescu

tourists and tourism | traveling | travelers

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I peer eagerly into every gap in a fence of a zipper. I peer eagerly into every gap in a fence of a zipper.

Mason Cooley

curiosity

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There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it—if you can remember. - MORE There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it—if you can remember.

Philip Dunne

past, the | memory | time

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I am packing my belongings in the shawl my mother used to wear when she went to the market. And I am going from my valley. But thi... - MORE I am packing my belongings in the shawl my mother used to wear when she went to the market. And I am going from my valley. But this time I shall never return. I am leaving behind me my 50 years of memory—memory. Strange that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed and yet hold clear and bright the memory of what happened years ago of men and women long since dead. Yet who shall say what is real and what is not. Can I believe this all gone when their voices are still a glory in my ears. No. And I will stand to say no and no again, for they remain within my mind. There is no fence nor hedge around time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember. So I can go close my eyes on my valley as it is today and it is gone. And I see it as it was when I was a boy—green it was and possessed of the plenty of the earth. In all Wales there was none so beautiful.

Philip Dunne

memory | Wales and the Welsh

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Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissib... - MORE Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because their backyard fence plainly outlines the safe area. They learn about the invisible fence that surrounds the stove, and that Grandma has an invisible barrier around her cabinet of antique teacups.

Jeanne Elium

discipline and punishment compared

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