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• The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Blow, Media

  Song: Restless Farewell, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.

  Joseph Epstein

  Clever, Writing, Syntax

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• Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology.

  Charles Petzold

  Book, Technology, Illustration

  Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.4, Microsoft Press

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• If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen a convergence of the arrows of explanation, like the convergence of meridians toward the North Pole.

  Steven Weinberg

  Science, History, Finals

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• I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.

  Peter York

  Caring, Clothes, Worry

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• Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Mountain, Desert

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.459

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• I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Doors, Somewhere Else, Rejection

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• The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Differences, Abuse, Clubs

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.160

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• How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

  William Cowper

  Light, Mind, Lag

  William Cowper (1858). “Works of Cowper and Thomson”, p.114

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• Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

  Patti Smith

  Future, Dark, Clean

  Song: Upright Come, Album: Gung Ho, 2000

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• That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

  Sylvia Plath

  July, Rockets, Lasts

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.44, Hamilton Books

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• The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

  Fred Bear

  Archery, Bows, Mankind

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• Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat

  Marc Bekoff

  Animal, Gun, Thinking

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• The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.

  Truman Capote

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage

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• I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Air, Earth, Shots

  'The Arrow and the Song' (1845)

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• Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.

  Joseph Warren

  Hands, Doe, Savages

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• I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.78

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• Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can't see it.

  Red Cloud

  Father, Warrior, Land

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• Make lots of noise
  Kiss lots of boys
  Or kiss lots of girls
  If that's something you're into
  When the straight and narrow
  Gets a little too straight
  Roll up a joint (or don't)
  Just follow your arrow
  Wherever it points.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Girl, Kissing, Boys

  "Follow Your Arrow". Song by Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally and Kacey Musgraves, October 21, 2013.

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• When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Kids, Journey, Self

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• The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Relaxation, Shooting, Way

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• There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely

  Mary Leakey

  Science, Yield, Hair

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• You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

  Baltasar Gracian

  War, Use, May

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

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• Our only hope to speak with kindness, to lead with patience, and to not threaten our children with homicide is to ensure our spiritual reserves are not bone-dry. Moms are the middle of the flow chart; the arrows of exertion flow constantly out from us, but when no arrows of strength, grace, and peace are flowing in, the whole mechanism is in danger. Goodness in equals goodness out.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Mom, Spiritual, Children

  Jen Hatmaker (2010). “Out of the Spin Cycle: Devotions to Lighten Your Mother Load”, p.36, Baker Books

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• The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religion, Depth, Bows

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2012). “An Interpretation of Christian Ethics”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press

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