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• I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.

  Emily Mortimer

  Drinking, School, Technology

  "Woman on the verge" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.

  Robert Breault

  Memories, Hanging Out

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• At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have travelled well, closed up in its cavity, quivering and gnawing at the bars of your ribcage during the commute. It might be tracking north now, along edgelands, past spoil-heaps and stands of pylons, under motorway passes, back to the higher ground. Back to him.

  Sarah Hall

  Heart, Past, Night

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• The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant bombs at a nightclub in Bali, or slit stewardesses' throats and ram airplanes filled with innocent Americans into office buildings do not do so for any reason related to poverty. They do so because they hold evil beliefs and have deformed consciences

  Dennis Prager

  Airplane, Blow, Israel

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• The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

  Seth Godin

  Example, Facts, Action

  Seth Godin (2015). “We Are All Weird: The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal”, p.49, Penguin

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• I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store, oftentimes I will drop it so that is achieves its maximum flavor potential.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Fall, Humor

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• There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

  Upton Sinclair

  Men, Desire, Kind

  Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Jungle: A Novel”, p.303, Open Road Media

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• My father stood behind a bar in the back of the room all those years, so one day I could stand behind a podium in the front of a room. That journey, from behind that bar to behind this podium, goes to the essence of the American miracle - that we're exceptional not because we have more rich people here. We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Father, Journey

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• Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?

  Steven Kotler

  Sports, Lying, Adventure

  Steven Kotler (2014). “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nursery schools and bars at 2 a.m. are the only places where it is completely normal if someone just spontaneously throws up on the floor...and just like a toddler, the bar patron wakes up the next day not remembering or caring how they behaved.

  Jim Gaffigan

  School, Caring, Next Day

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• Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Hands, Storm

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.110

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• I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lonely, Book, Writing

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• It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Making Changes, Easier, Pencils

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• The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars / While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Stars, Fall, Heart

  Georgia Douglas Johnson, “The Heart Of A Woman”

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• The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Darkness, Church

  Martin Luther (2009). “Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional”, p.182, Zondervan

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• In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.

  Zach Braff

  New York, Eye, Evil

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• If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets.

  Iggy Pop

  Depends, Ifs

  "Iggy Pop gives first lecture on punk, profits and principles". "PM" with Brendan Trembath, www.abc.net.au. October 14, 2014.

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• Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

  Walter Benjamin

  Ignorance, Feet, Cities

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.598, Harvard University Press

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• Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars. But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply. The hacksaw has two blades. The shotgun has two barrels. We are pregnant with freedom. We are a conspiracy.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Love Is, Hands

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.145, Zed Books

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• Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free.

  Ernest Holmes

  Love Is, Iron, Breaking Down

  Ernest Holmes (1984). “Living the Science of Mind: The Only Writings by the Founder of SCIENCE OF MIND to Help You Understand His Classic Textbook”, p.331, DeVorss & Company

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• A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fighting, Stories, Argument

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• When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson.

  Nelson Mandela

  Needs, Finding Strength, Release

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• There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.

  H. G. Wells

  Believe, Mind, Age

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• I can't put bars on my insides; my love is something I can't hide.

  Keith Carradine

  Love, Love Is, I Can

  Song: I'm Easy

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• In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,' and a special act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar. But today women are lawyers.

  Lucy Stone

  Law, Practice, Missing

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

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