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• My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind - I've always loved it.

  Xavier Rudd

  Dad, Good Day, Feet

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• ...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war and human suffering]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler ...or other that crop up - these people would not able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity - and therefore I think that it is in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who should share a very serious burden of guilt, that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and more violent.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, People

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• Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

  Charles Frazier

  Simple, Sacred, Consciousness

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.97, Random House

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• Senator Kerry recovering very nicely after having shoulder surgery. The doctors said the senator was fully awake, lucid and joking after the surgery was done, but cautioned that that was just the drug. He went back to his boring self soon afterward.

  Jay Leno

  Doctors, Self, Drug

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• John Kerry will undergo surgery to repair his right shoulder. He originally hurt it when he suddenly switched positions on Iraq.

  Craig Kilborn

  Hurt, Iraq, John Kerry

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• I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

  Stanley Bing

  Jobs, Friendly, Machines

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• "I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting me gently on the shoulders. "James Steerforth, the best wish I can leave you is that you may come to be ashamed of what you have done today. At present I would prefer to see you anything rather than a friend, to me, or to anyone in whom I feel an interest."

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Best Wishes, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (2015). “David Copperfield: Classic English Literature”, p.96, 谷月社

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• All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, England

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.548

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• Poor Mr. Pickwick! ... If he played a wrong card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to consider which was the right one, Lady Snuphanuph would throw herself back in her chair, and smile with a mingled glance of impatience and pity to Mrs. Colonel Wugsby, at which Mrs. Colonel Wugsby would shrug up her shoulders, and cough, as much as to say she wondered whether he ever would begin.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Missing

  Charles Dickens (2017). “THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens”, p.2522, e-artnow

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• Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Green

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.159, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest.

  Harvey Mackay

  Powerful, Unique, Thought Provoking

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• And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you are without yourself, adrift. I should describe the filthy province of mind, the blighted district inside, the place so crowded you cannot raise the eyelids of your eyes. Your shoulders are drawn and your head has fallen and your chest is bruised by the constant assault of your heart.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Loneliness, Eye, Heart

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• By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Exercise, People

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• I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voices and not feel like they're compromising their femininity to be strong and smart.

  Katie Aselton

  Girl, Strong, Smart

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Men, Order

  "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1951.

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• We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America.

  Billy Graham

  Moving, Thinking, America

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

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• What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Responsibility, People, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Thinking, World, Young

  Source: www.mybestyears.com

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• There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

  Marc Webb

  Men, Rocks, Quality

  "Emma Stone and Marc Webb Talk THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, Honoring the Marvel Icon, and Why Andrew Garfield is the Perfect Spider-Man". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2012.

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• With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Space, Weight, Sturdy

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• As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Race, Effort, Common

  Abraham Lincoln, H. C. Whitney, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (1907). “Speeches and debates, 1856-1858”

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• my pleasure
  was in the strength of my back,
  in my noble shoulders, the cool
  smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.

  Denise Levertov

  Dream, Noble, Flesh

  Denise Levertov (1967). “The Sorrow Dance: Poems”, [New York] : New Directions

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• The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Morning, Cutting, Feels

  Thomas Jefferson, Maria Hadfield Cosway, John P. Kaminski (1999). “Jefferson in Love: The Love Letters Between Thomas Jefferson & Maria Cosway”, p.122, Rowman & Littlefield

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• He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

  James Howell

  Money, Want, Purses

  James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”, p.13

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• They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

  Michael Johnson

  Motivational, Thinking, Track

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