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• Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wings, Pity, Pleasure

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

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• Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady MIND in the long run, and to take her revenge too transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portait of Yesterday.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Running, Revenge, Yesterday

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nicholas Halmi (2002). “Opus Maximum”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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• In New York and LA, there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Competition, Silent

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts To The Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Moving, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.

  Charlie Day

  Baseball, Art, Team

  Source: collider.com

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• Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like that where answers and methods are clear cut, absolutely. I would like to see that done online.

  David Gelernter

  Exercise, Engineering, Done

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• As for the flood carving Grand Canyon, why don't they explain to us why the top of the Canyon is 4,000ft higher than where the river (Colorado River) enters the canyon? Why don't they explain to us how rivers miraculously flowed up-hill for millions of years to finally cut the groove deep enough so they could flow downhill?

  Kent Hovind

  Colorado River, Years, Rivers

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• War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.

  Albert Kesselring

  War, Numbers, Enemy

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• Finnish forests: Let us remind the satellite pictures of the 1970's winter in which the old forest appeared black and young forest and cut downs white. Already then the Finnish borders were like drawn on the map: White Finland between black Karelian and black Sweden. Finnish Forest Research Institute hicced up some time and then decided that the pictures are fake.

  Pentti Linkola

  Winter, White, Fake

  "Can Life Prevail?". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.

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• The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential educational programs, laying off teachers and increasing local property taxes. Without a sound investment in our children and their education, New York would face crumbling school buildings, overcrowded classrooms, and few opportunities to excel.

  Jose Peralta

  Teacher, New York, Children

  "DA Brown, Council Candidates Get Dem Nod" by John Toscano, www.qgazette.com. May 21, 2003.

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• In order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate all excess by cutting. I have the feeling that this process (of "cutting off") is linked in some way to "elegance". Elegance and so-called "eliminating excess", or the beauty that remains after excess has beeen eliminated...

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Order, Feelings, Trying

  "The Past, the Feminine, the Vain in Talking to Myself" by Kiyokazu Washida, Ch. 3, 2002.

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• I noticed the bushes all around where I stood in my fight with the machine guns were all cut down. The bullets went over my head and on either side. But they never touched me.

  Alvin C. York

  Fighting, Gun, Machines

  "Understanding the Odyssey: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents" by Claudia D. Johnson, 2003.

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• You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

  John Amaechi

  Axes, World, Woods

  Speech to students at Phillips Exeter Academy, 2007.

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• When fighting zombies, the only comfort one can have--if, indeed, it can be called a "comfort"--is knowing where the zombies are. "They are over there, and we are over here. When they come at us, we're going to shoot them down. That's how it's going to work. They're just zombies, and they're way over there. No way are we going to f*** this up." But when zombies then unexpectedly pop up behind you--Bam!--the whole battle plan's not so cut and dried, is it, Mr. Tough Guy?

  Scott Kenemore

  Fighting, Knowing, Guy

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• I thought, 'OK, I'm done here. I'll take responsibility and go away.' Little did I know I was going to be going away limping because someone cut my legs out from under me.

  Terry Francona

  Responsibility, Going Away, Done

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• We cut up lemons on a chop board because they are good for our voices.

  Niall Horan

  Voice, Boards, Lemons

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• Most things in life are better when you just cut to the chase.

  Jase Robertson

  Things In Life

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• Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Fog, Should Have, Mind

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• Converting a classic batch-and-queue production system to continuous flow with effective pull by the customer will double labor productivity all the way through the system (for direct, managerial, and technical workers, from raw materials to delivered product) while cutting production throughput times by 90 percent and reducing inventories in the system by 90 percent as well.

  James P. Womack

  Inventory, Way, Flow

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• Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual.

  Martin Freeman

  Military, Old School, Giving

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• It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

  Lily James

  Men, Curves, Hair

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• It takes 16 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of beef. It takes 1 lb of grain to make 1 lb of bread. So, how many more plants are you eating if you eat a pound of beef? Secondly, I've harvested cabbages and pulled up carrots out of the ground and I've been in slaughter-houses and seen the animals have their brains bashed out with sledgehammers and their throats cut - the experiences are not comparable.

  John Robbins

  Animal, House, Brain

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• Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.

  David Letterman

  Knives, Tomorrow, Election

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• Don't get a job in an abattoir. Don't be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal's head off for a living.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Jobs, Animal, Men

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• If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, War, Believe

  "HBO Real Time" with Bill Maher, votesmart.org. March 31, 2006.

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