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• Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

  Doris Lessing

  Begging You, Stealing, Lending

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• The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe.

  Lena Horne

  Attitude, Women, Hypocrite

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• It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.

  Paz de la Huerta

  Decision, Matter, Months

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• We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, Animal, Trying

  "In Awe of Words". The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University, 1930.

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• Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

  Jack London

  Life, Hands, Rooms

  Jack London (2016). “The Sea-Wolf (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

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• Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

  Jennifer Egan

  Hippie, Hair, Shoes

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.31, Anchor

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• A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Knees

  Song: I'm Your Man, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

  Irving Stone

  Artist, Ideas, Hours

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

  Markus Zusak

  Begging You, Asking, Mouths

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.72, RH Childrens Books

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• Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this." - Morelli

  Janet Evanovich

  Begging You, Doughnut, I Can

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• We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right. And all we're asking for is an opportunity to do something for ourselves, rather than to sit around as a beggar, begging for jobs and begging for education from - for someone else for the rest of our lives.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.

  David Platt

  Teacher, Religious, Jesus

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.38, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The world is begging for you to lead.

  Seth Godin

  World

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• I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance.

  Kalan Sherrard

  Art, Successful, Law

  "'Hyper subtle sexual ego'". Interview with Peter Nowogrodzki, logger.believermag.com. June 4, 2014.

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• What is a screenplay? 120 pages of begging for money and attention.

  James Schamus

  Attention

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• Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.

  Homer

  Girl, Mother, Running

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• This was the kid who used to toddle over to my bed at 6 o’ clock in the morning every weekend morning to pull on my blankets so I’d get up and watch cartoons with him. This was the kid who once made me play Hungry Hungry Hippos for an hour straight, until I thought my hands were going to fall off from slamming down those dumb little levers to make the hippos’ heads move. This was the kid who had spent an entire days at a time begging me to play Chutes and Ladders with him. And now he was feeling too sick to play with me.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Morning, Moving, Fall

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• Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

  Mason Cooley

  Ideas, Misery, Arise

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• Charity does not mean that the land should be full of beggars. We can provide some support and means for the beggars, but provide food, clothing and other conveniences in such a way that you are not encouraging laziness and begging.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mean, Land, Support

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• Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Pain, Past, Laughing

  Tabitha Suzuma (2010). “Forbidden”, p.410, Random House

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• [Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?

  Chuck Todd

  Fighting, Distraction, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hair, Would Be, Knees

  "Benedict Cumberbatch landed Star Trek role with pitch filmed on iPhone" by Henry Barnes, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question, and thereby begging the real one.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Real, Loss, Government

  "Priebe & Sons., Inc. v. United States, 332 U.S. 407". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. November 17, 1947.

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• This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Knowledge, Progress, Desire

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1911). “Philosophy”

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• Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume. Cardboard box, self-made top, mask included. Remember the rubber band on the back of that mask? That was a quality item there, wasn't it? That was good for about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there with.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Halloween, Self, Years

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