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• Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

  Eric Hoffer

  Growing Up, Evil, Trying

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1973.

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• The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Age, Stones, Sticks

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2008). “South Sea Tales”, p.257, OUP Oxford

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• Fixing markets isn't enough. We have to actively shape and create them and tilt the playing field in the direction of the growth we want.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Growth, Shapes, Want

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.

  Jacques Lacan

  Passion, Psychosis, Community

  Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (1980). “Écrits: a selection”

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• I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Should Have, Ducks, Curls

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• The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.

  Penn Jillette

  Writing, Simple, People

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

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• I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

  Carly Fiorina

  Fighting, Windmills

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• When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.

  James Belushi

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Sadness

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• He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and kisses me, sending a warm ache through my body. I wrap my hands around his arm, holding him there as long as I can. When he touches me, the hollowed-out feeling in my chest and stomach is not as noticeable.

  Veronica Roth

  Kissing, Hands, Long

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• Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,
  I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world
  To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:
  We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Play, Crowns

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [95]

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• I'm-going-to-tilt-my-head-at-a-perpendicular-angle-and-then-attempt-to-extract-your-soul-through-your-mouth-like-some-giant-alien-sucker-fish

  Burt Lancaster

  Soul, Giants, Mouths

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• If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.

  Olive Schreiner

  Running, Rocks, Blue

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• The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias.... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much apology for liberal policy failures. Too much pandering to liberal candidates and causes.

  William Kristol

  Apology, Wings, Political

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• But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Champion, Force

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

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• I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.

  Lauren Willig

  Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

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• When she comes She pulls you close She breathes in short bursts Her eyes close Her head tilts back Her mouth opens slightly Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt She is perfect And you feel like you are everything.

  Henry Rollins

  Eye, Perfect, Steel

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.29, Villard

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• There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Fall, Men, Pet

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Indian Tales: Ghost Story Collections”, p.3, 谷月社

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• He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld.

  Colum McCann

  Memories, Knowing, Air

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• There's that confidence again, that semi-infuriating easiness of his, the tilt of his head and the smile. but today it's not infuriating. Today I like it, feel like it's somehow rubbing off on me, like if I was around him enough I would never feel awkward or frightened or insecure.

  Lauren Oliver

  Insecure, Awkward, Today

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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• "But please, when you see an opportunity..." He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. "Ruin them."

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Eye, Opportunity

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth, April 25, 2011.

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• When in doubt, I can stare blankly. The rubber face. There's only so many ways you can stare incredulously at the camera and tilt an eyebrow, but that's your old standby: What would Buster Keaton do?

  Jon Stewart

  Eyebrows, Doubt, Cameras

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

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• I don't like that new age posture where you kind of tilt your head. I don't like that posture right now. I want something a little more confident and more sure of the values that we're defending, which are the old ones, love and empathy and patience and tolerance and civility. Not to get into politics or anything.

  George Saunders

  Want Something, Empathy, Tolerance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Have you worked here long?" Sebastian asks. Just a few months," I say. "Do you come here a lot?" As if you don't know, Jade. I used to come every day, or, you know, when I could, I'd bring Bo after work. Or just myself." At night sometimes. You'd climb the fence. You'd watch the stars. You'd tilt back your head and look at the sky. You'd think it over, whatever it was.

  Deb Caletti

  Stars, Night, Thinking

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

  Megan Abbott

  Age, Rats, Seven

  Megan Abbott (2012). “Dare Me: A Novel”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• I pushed him away, catching Lee's awe that I was not only standing with a demon outside a circle, but that Al was treating me like an equal. Or maybe a favorite pet, I amended as Al caught me when I started to tilt.

  Kim Harrison

  Circles, Pet, Als

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