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• The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.

  Albert J. Nock

  Moving, Self, Doe

  "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 51), 1935.

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• The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years.

  Max Muller

  Country, Fate, Years

  "The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller" edited by Georgina Müller, 1902.

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• No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.

  Reginald Heber

  Axes, Silence, Hammers

  Reginald Heber, Amelia Heber (1830). “The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta: With Selections from His Correspondence, Unpublished Poems, and Private Papers : Together with a Journal of His Tour in Norway, Sweden, Russia, Hungary and Germany, and a History of the Cosacks ; in Two Volumes”, p.30

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• The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sprung Up, Clothes, Effort

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.166

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• For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to. Now, in the more than 20 years I've been doing this, the concept of adventure-travel trips or expeditions by groups has sprung up. The places I went 20 years ago now have adventure-travel trips.

  Tim Cahill

  Jobs, Adventure, Sprung Up

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• Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

  W. C. Fields

  Uncles, Men, Giving

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• The man who knelt before her would have sprung from her needles, even down the ghostly flecks of silver in his hair. She had not known before that she wanted all these things, that she preferred dark hair and a slightly cruel expression, that she wishes for tallness, or that a man kneeling might thrill her.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Dark, Men, Hair

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.57, Macmillan

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• This is true valor, I hope you know. Legends have sprung from less. All Lancelot did was paddle about in a balmy lake.” She smiled. “Lancelot was a knight. You’re a viscount. The bar is higher.

  Tessa Dare

  Lakes, Knights, Bars

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• Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Love, Wall, Flower

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• 'Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you're making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don't care who sees, 'cause baby you got me so crazy.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Love, Baby, Crazy

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• He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

  John Dryden

  Horse, Moving, Pride

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• I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they would be rejected, they would be getting their revenge in advance. I was lucky - it could have been a pipe bomb.

  Gardner Dozois

  Revenge, Sprung Up, Would Be

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• Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

  Walter Scott

  Home, Heart, Men

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.42

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• There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

  Winston Churchill

  Revenge, Blessed, Past

  Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

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• The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.

  Henry James

  Hands, Hints, Stories

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• Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action.

  Ilona Andrews

  Baby, Children, Badass

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• One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

  Philip Pullman

  Other Worlds, Next, Moments

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• No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.

  Douglas Adams

  Mind, Friendly, Pockets

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

  Tanith Lee

  Flower, Roots, Hundred

  Tanith Lee (1987). “Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter”

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• It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.

  Marisha Pessl

  Character, Leaks, Meticulous

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.201, Penguin

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• We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.

  Marcel Proust

  Attitude, Struggle, Journey

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• My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's sweetly played in tune. How fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in love am I; And I will love thee still, my dear, Till all the seas gang dry. Till all the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt with the sun; I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands of life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only love. And fare thee weel awhile! And I will come again, my love, Though it were ten thousand mile.

  Robert Burns

  Running, Art, Love Is

  Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”

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• I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity,like a vicious version of Athena.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nice, Insecure, Boys

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2009). “Skin Trade: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.170, Penguin

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• But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and wild plants and grasses had sprung up under the protection of the trees we had placed there. The trees had multiplied! They were moving. In one small corner of the world, Grandfather's dream was coming true and the trees were moving again.

  Ruskin Bond

  Dream, Moving, Sprung Up

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• I sprung you because I've got a message for you" "doesn't your family own a cell phone company?" "only a little one

  Ally Carter

  Phones, Cells, Littles

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.17, Hachette UK

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