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• If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

  George Herbert

  Shadow, Ifs

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.344

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• I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.

  Dontrelle Willis

  Sports, Keys, Years

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• When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.

  Heather Locklear

  Girl, Baby, Growing Up

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• Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

  Chanakya

  Education, Cutting, Tree

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• We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

  Robert Wyatt

  Money, Taken, Records

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• The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

  James Shirley

  Kings, Fate, Dust

  'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses' (1659) act 1, sc. 3

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• I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independent, Agriculture, House

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.42, Graphic Arts Books

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• As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sea, Water, Different

  "Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God".

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• Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Needs, Rulers

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• The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspirational, Christian, Character

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• Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Prayer, Law, Grace

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• I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

  John Green

  Heart, Alaska, Neighbor

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Seems

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Circles, Truth Is

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

  Herbert Hoover

  Honesty, Men, Land

  Herbert Hoover (1955). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955”

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• You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time.

  Jack Hyles

  Debt, Pay, Robbers

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• Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Rights, Two, Proof

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• Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

  Alfred Nobel

  Believe, People, Lines

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• If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

  Giordano Bruno

  Buttons, Coats, Firsts

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• Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Bent, Tricks

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• I need to live like that crooked tree--...
  that knelt down in the hardest winds
  but could not be blasted away.

  Edward Hirsch

  Wind, Tree, Needs

  Edward Hirsch (2009). “Special Orders: Poems”, p.48, Knopf

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• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Flower, Roots

  "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" l. 1 (1934)

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• Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Dream, Morning

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• For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Noses, Logic, Distinction

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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