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• The impious man, who sells his country's freedom
  Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own.
  His are her slaughters, her oppressions his;
  Just heav'n! reserve your choicest plagues for him,
  And blast the venal wretch.

  Henry Martyn

  Country, Men, Guilt

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• It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.

  Sydney Thompson Dobell

  Shrines, Temples, Zeal

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• Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.

  Shane Warne

  Wall, Dozen, Bowling

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• As in an organ from one blast of wind
  To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

  John Milton

  Music, Wind, Breathe

  John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.82

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• In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Individual Happiness, Iron

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.

  James M. Barrie

  Writing, May, Biographies

  "Hide-and-seek with Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie". Book by Lisa Chaney, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• I turned atheist in the 90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.

  Amish Tripathi

  Atheist, Mumbai, Amish

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• We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

  William Westmoreland

  Peace, War, Age

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• I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while he was crouched in the rocket nose-cone, awaiting blast-off, he replied, "I was thinking that the rocket has 20,000 components, and each was made by the lowest bidder."

  Martin Rees

  Thinking, Mind, Orbit

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• That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.

  Paul Bowles

  Worry, Doubt, Dry

  Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”

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• For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call God?--and the string is what we don't know, our Ignorance, and the trail of ash, which, if a gust of wind does not come, keeps the structure of the string, is History, man's Knowledge, but it is dead, and when the fire has burned up all the string, then man's Knowledge will be equal to God's Knowledge and there won't be any fire, which is Life. Or if the string leads to a powder keg, then there will be a terrific blast of fire, and even the trail of ash will be blown completely away.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Ignorance, Men, Fire

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.

  Jonathan Evison

  Running, Dog, Writing

  "Interview with Jonathan Evison, Author of West of Here". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 31, 2011.

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• We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.

  John Baird

  Animal, Political, Sound

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• What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much more of Dryden, and Pope, and Gray! Our summer of English poetry, like the Greek and Latin before it, seems well advanced towards its fall, and laden with the fruit and foliage of the season, with bright autumnal tints, but soon the winter will scatter its myriad clustering and shading leaves, and leave only a few desolate and fibrous boughs to sustain the snow and rime, and creak in the blasts of age.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Latin, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• But most thro' midnight streets I hear
  How the youthful Harlots curse
  Blasts the new-born Infants tear
  And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

  William Blake

  Children, Abuse, Tears

  William Blake (1971). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.27, Library of Alexandria

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• Condemned to Hope's delusive mine,
  As on we toil from day to day,
  By sudden blasts or slow decline
  Our social comforts drop away.

  Samuel Johnson

  Toil, Comfort, Aging

  'On the Death of Dr Robert Levet' (1783)

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• think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well:
  larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast
  of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!

  Anne Sexton

  Ocean, Thinking, Wings

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

  Dante Alighieri

  Past, Punishment, Lust

  Dante Alighieri (1995). “Dante’s Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.49, Indiana University Press

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• For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.

  Martin Amis

  Light, Sound, Want

  Martin Amis (2010). “Einstein's Monsters”, p.18, Random House

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• As Christian feel the changing winds of political climate, the blasts against their values in the media, the exclusion of the Christian faith from educational institutions, they begin to sense the dangers of complacency and of pietistical world flight.

  Edmund Clowney

  Christian, Religious, Educational

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• I don't gravitate toward any particular genre. I like to do things that interest me, regardless of genre. I've had a blast doing Cosmos, and I'm said that it's coming to an end. I would like to do something else like that.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Cosmos, Ends, Coming To An End

  Source: collider.com

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• I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

  Jackie French

  Years, Might, Able

  "Jackie French, author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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• I've really enjoyed the independent film world. I've had a blast. But, the reality is that I really want to make bigger movies. If I could make movies that carry great characters and great performances and great pathos, and can have an explosion or two, that would be fine with me.

  Matthew Lillard

  Character, Independent, Reality

  "Matthew Lillard Talks FAT KID RULES THE WORLD, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Health, School

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.197, Delphi Classics

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