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• The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

  Malcolm X

  White, People, Islam

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.369, Ballantine Books

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• I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.

  Don Rickles

  Games, Watches, Needs

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste; he's a god of the earth, like one of the Grecian deities who lives on worldly mountains and descended for intercourse with men. But at night, over a stratus layer, all sense of the planet may disappear. You know that down below, beneath that heavenly blanket is the earth, factual and hard. But it's an intellectual knowledge; it's a knowledge tucked away in the mind; not a feeling that penetrates the body.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wine, Night, Men

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• When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket,
  he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Horse, Native American, Tents

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• Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
  Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
  Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
  Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
  and
  History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Night, Rainbow, Psychology

  Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press

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• Every dog should have a man of his own. There is nothing like a well-behaved person around the house to spread the dog's blanket for him, or bring him his supper when he comes home man-tired at night.

  Corey Ford

  Funny, Dog, Home

  Corey Ford (1952). “Every Dog Should Have a Man: The Care and Feeding of Dog's Best Friend”

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• When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.

  Bernie Glassman

  Offering, Clothes, Bears

  Bernie Glassman (2013). “Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace”, p.74, Penguin

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• Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here by myself; let the world burn.' Not at all. We go deep into meditation so that we can reach out further and further to the world outside.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Thinking, Meditation, Cozy

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.169, Nilgiri Press

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• Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.

  Donald Hall

  Dark, Oil, June

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• Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.

  Richard Hammond

  Car, Mexican, Lazy

  "Mexican anger over BBC 'feckless, lazy' claims" by Simon Hooper, www.cnn.com. February 2, 2011.

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• A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words.

  Sandy Fussell

  Girl, Meaningful, Hug

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• Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Government, Liberty

  "The Illusion of Safety". thehill.com. August 22, 2011.

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• A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.

  Warren Farrell

  Independent, Men, Enough

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Dream, Moving, Passion

  Stasi Eldredge (2013). “Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You”, p.108, David C Cook

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• If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

  Nicole McKay

  Art, Struggle, Bricks

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• I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

  Brian McKnight

  Writing, Answers, Way

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• If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

  Carl Sagan

  Winter, Science, Nuclear

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• Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

  Tom Schulman

  Truth, Dead Poets Society, Feet

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• When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Trying, Energy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fall, Men, Cities

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes to Electra, Act 2, 1943.

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• Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or, as here, to treat a specific problem, is of indispensable importance in the maintenance of community health; a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards necessary for a search of evidence of criminal acts.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Dwelling Place, Community, Criminals

  "Frank v. Maryland, 359 U.S. 360". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 4, 1959.

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• Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.

  Sara Genn

  Failure, Picnics, Ants

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• In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.

  Jay Leno

  Luxury, Peanuts, Economy

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• Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.

  Anthony Daniels

  Compassion, Attention, May

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