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• Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Brother, Motivation, Boston

  "The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bombings?" by Jeffrey Kluger, healthland.time.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Sharon Osbourne is such a blast and she's so, so bright.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Sharon

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• It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.

  Saul Perlmutter

  Choices, Tough, Cold

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• I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.

  Mickey Rourke

  Two, Work Out, Three

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• I think it's important to love what you do and have a good time with it. I go to work every day and have a blast.

  Sarah Shahi

  Thinking, Important, Good Times

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• Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Kings, Rain

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.836

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• Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away.

  Melvin Burgess

  Pain, Doors, Space

  "Junk". Book by Melvin Burgess, 1996.

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• There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wall, Army, Hands

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.339, Broadview Press

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• Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

  Jack Vance

  Moving, Magic, Mischief

  Jack Vance (2000). “Mazirian the Magician: (previously titled The Dying Earth)”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Use your head, Sep. Loads of wolverines. Hanging around waiting for super. Gtting excited. eating mint blasts. so what do you think they do?' it must be here. they can't have eaten that... i dunno, Nik, what do they do?' POO.

  Angie Sage

  Thinking, Waiting, Use

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• Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Blow, Race

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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• The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.

  J. K. Rowling

  Teenage, Stupid, Ideas

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.28, Pottermore

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• Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Blow, Icy, Chill

  Gustave Flaubert (1992). “Madame Bovary”

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• A cold blast hit him and he laughed at the sting as he stepped outside, surveyed the night sky, and drank deeply. Such a good liar he was. Such a good one. Everyone thought he was fine because he'd camo'd his little problems. He wore a Sox hat to hide the eye twitch. Set his wristwatch to go off every half hour to beat back the dream. Ate though he wasn't angry. Laughed though he found nothing funny. And he'd always smoked like a chimney.

  J.R. Ward

  Dream, Liars, Eye

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.387, Penguin

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• ignition! blast off!!! the vessel needs a new name! something more appropriate to a starship. apollo? gemini? enterprise. already taken. millennium falcon. trademarked. all rights reserved. no! wait, i have it! dragin star! thats it! dragon star!

  Margaret Weis

  Stars, Taken, Rights

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• Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.

  Andrea Camilleri

  Country, Mistake, Sleep

  Andrea Camilleri (2009). “August Heat”, p.11, Penguin

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• We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.

  Mira Grant

  Scene, Standing, Radius

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• I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Weed, Marijuana

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• May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?

  Winston Churchill

  Block, War, Cities

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.220, Da Capo Press

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• What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart.

  Gillian Flynn

  Suicidal, Mean, Blow

  Gillian Flynn (2009). “Dark Places: A Novel”, p.153, Broadway Books

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• And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

  Thomas Hood

  New Year, Regret, Holiday

  Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood (1842). “The New Monthly Magazine”, p.2

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• Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Blow, Rags

  "The Mysterious Stranger". Book by Mark Twain, 1916.

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• Singing is a f***ing blast. When it’s really good, it’s as good as the best sex. I get nipple erections all the time on stage, I do!

  Joan Osborne

  Sex, Singing, Nipples

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• You'd be so lean, that blast of January
  Would blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend,
  I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might
  Become your time of day.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Blow

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• Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting to demolish the rock from the outside with hammer and chisel. The later mathematicians resemble expert miners who seek vulnerable veins, drill into these strategic places, and then blast the rock apart with well placed internal charges.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Math, Rocks, Wish

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