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• News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore,” Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn’t interfere with the flamethrower. “No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns.

  Rachel Caine

  Kings, Queens, America

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• Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the life laid down - is the night sky any less strange; should my glance less follow the flight; should the pen shake less in my hand.

  Judith Wright

  Song, Nature, Stars

  Judith Wright (1971). “Collected poems, 1942-1970”, Angus & Robertson

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• I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.

  Justin Timberlake

  Mom, Kids, Eight

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

  Matsuo Basho

  Autumn, Clams, Torn

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• It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

  William Shatner

  Summer, Kids, East

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• The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell
  emerges strange and lovely.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sea, Lovely, Body

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6885, Delphi Classics

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• Strength is an empty shell.

  Jack London

  Strength, Empty, Empty Shell

  Jack London (2017). “JACK LONDON Ultimate Collection: 250+ Works in One Volume: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs, Essays & Articles (Illustrated): The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, The Iron Heel, The Scarlet Plague, A Son of the Sun, Son of the Wolf, South Sea Tales, Children of the Frost, John Barleycorn, The War of the Classes…”, p.1095, e-artnow

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• Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

  Steven Morrissey

  Real, Bored, World

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• If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be a surprise to no one that today we will dump another 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet. ... We have to [act] this year, not next year. Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

  Al Gore

  Mother, Years, Atmosphere

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• Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Years, Giving

  Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.161, Vintage

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• It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth.

  Steven Biko

  Country, Pride, Men

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• There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

  Kate Dickie

  Giving, People, Behaviour

  "Kate Dickie: 'I've been angst-ridden all my life'". Interview With Jane Graham, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2010.

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• Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Nursing, Thinking, Eggs

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• People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

  Bel Kaufman

  People, Bread, Made

  "At 100, Still a Teacher, and Quite a Character" by Joseph Berger, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2011.

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• The shell model, although proposed by theoreticians, really corresponds to the experimentalist's approach. It was born from a thorough study of the experimental data, plotting them in different ways, and looking for interconnections.

  Maria Goeppert-Mayer

  Science, Data, Different

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• I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Littles, Likes, Sometimes

  "Meet Hellcats Stars Ashley Tisdale & Aly Michalka". www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.

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• In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go.

  Susan Cain

  Integrity, Home, Animal

  "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, January 24, 2012.

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• Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

  Walter Raleigh

  Hope, Giving, Joy

  'The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage'

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• Look at what Al Davis has done. He hired the first Hispanic head coach (Tom Flores), the first black head coach (Art Shell), and now me. It's not a coincidence. People in sports talk a lot about inclusiveness and giving people opportunities. While they talk, I only see one person doing it. Al is the last person on Earth who'd do this for a pat on the back. A pat on the back would annoy him. He does it for the right reasons.

  Amy Trask

  Sports, Art, Opportunity

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• I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

  Emile Hirsch

  Thinking, Shy, Half

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

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• To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.

  Frank Drake

  Beach, Time, Children

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• It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.

  Agostino Scilla

  Life, Sports, Nature

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• The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.

  Giovanni Battista Brocchi

  Science, Earth, Fossils

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• As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself.

  Jessica Stroup

  Actors, Live And Learn, Kind

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• It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

  Joanna Macy

  Fall, Emotional, Essentials

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