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• You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

  Richard Baxter

  Doors, Devil, Done

  Richard Baxter (1815). “The poor man's best companion: in plain and familiar dialogues. With forms of prayer for various uses ... By the Rev. Richard Baxter”, p.221

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• I'm broke, I'm bored and I'm back.

  John Riggins

  Nfl, I'm Back

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never broke up with my girlfriends, they broke up with me.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Girlfriend, My Girlfriend, Broke Up

  "The Complex 7: Ricky Hatton & Manny Pacquiao". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. May 2, 2009.

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• My own theory is that people are just so desperate for somebody they can feel better than, in America. Now that everyone's going broke and working 17 jobs - if they have one at all - at least they can look at these guys behind bars and think, "At least I get to wear my own clothes to work."

  Jerry Stahl

  Jobs, Feel Better, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I designed furniture that pulled apart, folded, and broke down into neat stacks. Since arriving in California, I had moved four times and it looked as if I would move again. Was it the land running under my feet or my feet running over the land?

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Running, Moving, Land

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.105, Penguin

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• Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher motives. ... Now war has a bad conscience. Now every nation assures us that it is bleeding for a human cause, the fate of which hangs in the balance of its victory ... No nation dares to admit the guilt of blood before the world.

  Ellen Key

  War, Fate, Blood

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• What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Kissing, Men, Vow

  Fitz-Greene Halleck (1848). “The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck: Now First Collected. Illustrated with Steel Engravings, from Drawings by American Artists”, p.88

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• Come to the bridal-chamber, Death!
  Come to the mother's, when she feels,
  For the first time, her first-born's breath!
  Come when the blessed seals
  That close the pestilence are broke,
  And crowded cities wail its stroke!

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Death, Mother, Blessed

  Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.12

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• Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.

  Aphra Behn

  Kings, Law, Ems

  Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.2843, Delphi Classics

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• I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Motherhood, Years

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• People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

  Eve Ensler

  People, Feel Good, Needs

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I'm not real crazy about the Hollywood system. So the fact that they embrace me is a shock to me because I tell them to kiss my ass all the time. I don't understand why they haven't thrown me out on my ear. The other thing is I don't participate much. I have very few friends within the movie community. I hang out with some guys I've known forever. They're all broke and eat me out of house and home. But I stay home mostly and I don't go to the parties. Maybe that preserves me.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Crazy, Real, Party

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.

  Alfonsina Storni

  Tired, Mountain, Growing

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• All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wife, Males, Looks

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.107, Penguin

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• The worst years of my life were the first two years I was doing standup. You're learning how to do, and you're going on stage in front of two drunks and people aren't laughing and you're broke. That's a really hard time in your life.

  Bill Maher

  Hard Times, Years, Two

  Source: www.tucsonweekly.com

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• Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.

  Gore Vidal

  Memories, Character, Mean

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Heathenism had proved unequal to the wants of men; and it was when the most thoughtful among the Pagans were turned away from its hollow mockeries and misleading altars that the anthem of the angels broke clear and loud above the slopes of Bethlehem: "Glory to God in the highest! Peace on earth and good will toward men!

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Christmas, Angel, Thoughtful

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• Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.

  Alice Kahn

  Hair, Two, Expectations

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• When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Jobs, University Students, Car

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• Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds.

  Tom Verducci

  Baseball, Average, League

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• Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

  Judy Gold

  Rivers, Speech, Barriers

  "Joan Rivers gave misfit girls permission to dream" by Judy Gold, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2014.

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• Contention, like a horse,
  Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
  And bears down all before him.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Bears, Feeding

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1842). “The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play : with a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper Heads”, p.123

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• Where, twisted round the barren oak,
  The summer vine in beauty clung,
  And summer winds the stillness broke,
  The crystal icicle is hung.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.8

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• We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Laughing, Humanity

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.230

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• I've always heard that you'll know, but I never understood it. With Peter, we even broke up after we dated for a year, for two or three months, but I still knew. I knew there was something different about this union. Even through the hard times, it was like "How are we going to get through this?

  Mariska Hargitay

  Hard Times, Years, Two

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