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• It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.

  Iris Murdoch

  Sports, Struggle, Gun

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• The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order of things. Counter-claims are made that they are the only living and dynamic studies... Both contentions are wrong. Language, Literature and Philosophy express, reflect and contemplate the world. But it is a world in which men will never be content to stay at rest, and so these disciplines cannot be cut off from the great searching into the nature of things without being deprived of life-blood.

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

  Philosophy, Cutting, Science

  Presidential Address to Classical Association, 1959.

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• Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Eye, Joy

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 46 (1798)

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• The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

  Mark Twain

  God, Christian, Army

  "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".

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• Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.

  Joseph Story

  Blessing, America, Peaceful

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• Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Jail, May

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• As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, Father, Character

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.39, Stanford University Press

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• I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangover.

  Noel Gallagher

  Drinking, Hangover, Drunk

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• The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever with great reason considered the ties of blood as feeble and precarious links of political connection.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ties, Political, Everyday

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.117, Coventry House Publishing

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• Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

  Ben Shahn

  War, Reputation, Historic

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• I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Eye, Smell

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• In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

  James C. Collins

  Business, Responsibility, Cash Flow

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• Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I cant resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Kissing, Law

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• Through winter-time we call on spring,
  And through the spring on summer call,
  And when the abounding hedges ring
  Declare that winter's best of all:
  And after that there's nothing good
  Because the spring time has not come-
  Not know that what disturbs our blood
  Is but its longing for the tomb.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Summer, Spring

  William Butler Yeats (2012). “The Tower: A Facsimile Edition”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

  Aberjhani

  Love, School, Dust

  Aberjhani (2008). “Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World”, p.153, Lulu.com

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• Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

  Olive Schreiner

  Love, Flower, Color

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.208, Courier Corporation

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• Up and away for life! be fleet!-
  The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
  Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
  Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
  Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
  And hems in life with narrowing fence.
  Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
  The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
  Embalmed by purifying cold;
  The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
  The snow is no ignoble shroud,
  The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Kings, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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• I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does.

  Robert Six

  People, Doe, Way

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• To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To free oneself from the petty disputes of everyday life, to be active, to feel the blood renewed in one's vein - ah! that is life. . . . Life in finer and simpler. My will is freer. I appreciate everything more, sunlight and shade, work and my friends. The sky is vast. I breathe deep gulps of the fine clear air of the heights. I feel myself to have achieved a higher state of physical strength and a clearer brain. I am living in the third dimension!

  Henri Mignet

  Air, Sky, Rivers

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• George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." So don't bother to think about it! Spit on your hands and get busy. Your blood will start circulating; your mind will start ticking-and pretty soon this whole positive upsurge of life in your body will drive worry from your mind. Get busy. Keep busy. It's the cheapest kind of medicine there is on this earth-and one of the best.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Thinking, Hands

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.62, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood, of friendship, and of acquaintance embrace a great proportion of the most influential part of the society . . . they are more immediately the confidential guardians of their rights and liberties.

  James Madison

  Rights, People, Liberty

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.249, Coventry House Publishing

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• Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.

  George Washington

  Peace, Opportunity, Next

  Attributed to George Washington in the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser (p. 3, column 1), November 14, 1787.

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• Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Time, Truth, Jam

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.197, Verso

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• If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the Beverly Hillbillies.

  Dave Barry

  Music, Song, Two

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Sauce, Looks, Kind

  "War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman".

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