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• I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Thinking, Judging, Shapes

  "Matt Gonzalez would govern from the left" by Rachel Gordon, www.sfgate.com. October 18, 2003.

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• Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

  Phillips Brooks

  Mean, Purpose, Might

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Heart, Sunset

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• The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

  Matthew Arnold

  Knowledge, Science, Knowing

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Celtic Literature”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

  Leo Burnett

  Irritation, Confusion, Noses

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• Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Wall, Work

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much. It looks like arthritis but it isn't. It's hunger for recognition. And it's sort of like, well, I'll scratch you this time if you'll scratch me next time. That kind of thing.

  Rod Serling

  Bullshit, Looks, Affliction

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Hell, Prove

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it never turned away. Side by side through all His manifestations of Himself, there were the two aspects: "He showed Himself froward " (if I may quote the word) to the self-righteous and the Pharisee; and He bent with more than a woman's tenderness of 'yearning love over the darkness and sinfulness, which in its great darkness dimly knew itself blind, and in its sinfulness stretched out a lame hand of faith, and groped after a Divine deliverer.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Self, Hands, Class

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 68), 1895.

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• In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Exercise, Self

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• When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

  John Donne

  Fall, Expression, Hands

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.386

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• The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Strong, Law, Rope

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• Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

  George Herbert

  Mind, Done, May

  George Herbert (1703). “The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue”, p.12

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• So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

  John Milton

  Sea, Land, Prey

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 440

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• Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

  Amy Lowell

  Horse, War, Soldier

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Men, Women and Ghosts”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

  Enoch Powell

  Years, Russia, Challenges

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• The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Wall, Kissing, Winter

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• Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward égalité and justice - the foundation stones for a sound democracy.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Justice, Political, Democracy

  "'Please Use Your Liberty to Promote Ours'" by Aung San Suu Kyi, www.nytimes.com. June 16, 2012.

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• If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.

  Stephen Hales

  Helping, Chaps, Seems

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• It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'

  Michael Caine

  Thinking, People, Track

  "Michael Caine meets William Orbit". Interview with William Orbit, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.

  Robert Jordan

  Fire, Dragons, Blood

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• Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.

  Conor Oberst

  Kindness, War, Rain

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• Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn

  Andy Partridge

  Heart, School, Broken

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• So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.

  Octavius Winslow

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Men

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• The answer is for all of us to create our own systems, our own ideas, because vibrant independent ideas will trump this corporate, plastic Borg, this brainwashing they're trying to push. I mean, banning 'father' and 'mother,' banning the word 'husband' and 'wife,' I mean that's so cultic that if I'd of been told ten years ago they were gonna ban words like that, I wouldn't have believed it. They do it with straight faces. I mean, has the left, and of course the controlled-right as well, have they gone collectively insane on a control-freak bent? Or, is there a strategy?

  Alex Jones

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Source: noworldorder.com

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