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• A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the air.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Air, Target, Fabric

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• The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some *******s in the world that just need to be shot. There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

  James Mattis

  Discipline, Enemy, Firsts

  “Fiasco”, armedforcesjournal.com. August 1, 2006.

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• Faith parries all blows. Faith transforms poison into crystalline water.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Water

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• I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Discovery, Dying, Easy

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.149, Delacorte Press

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• Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.

  Alice Munro

  Kindness, Understanding, Use

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• I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hurt, Pain, Children

  Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Schulkind (1976). “Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings”, Sussex University Press

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• No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?

  William Shakespeare

  Wrinkles, Sorrow, Faces

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.355

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• Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni oruga cultivo Cultivo una rosa blanca. I have a white rose to tend In July as in January; I give it to the true friend Who offers his frank hand to me. And to the cruel one whose blows Break the heart by which I live, Thistle nor thorn do I give: For him, too, I have a white rose.

  Jose Marti

  True Friend, Heart, White

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• Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away.

  Homer

  Spring, Winter, Men

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• Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Heart, Clouds

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.222, Delphi Classics

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• She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Reality, Years

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• I was wounded by a blow of love.

  Tom Spanbauer

  Wounded

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• To a police officer, a sawed off shotgun is the ultimate nightmare. You can blow someone in half!

  Steven Seagal

  Police, Half, Nightmare

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• She (Rachel) pulled away and looked into his eyes. "Don't give up." "There goes my plan." "I'm serious. Even if things look bad, find a way to win. Find it." "You too," Jason urged. "Within reason. Don't try some huge Edomic command and blow yourself to pieces." "There goes my plan." "You stole my line.

  Brandon Mull

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Eye

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• A real fighter never cries, never lets the weight of any blow bring him down. Except that final blow, the inevitable one, but even then they always go out like men.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Real, Men, Finals

  J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.72, HarperCollins UK

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• Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kindness, Mind, Lamps

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1588, Library of Alexandria

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• It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

  Hugh Howey

  Loss, Illusion, Humbling

  "Wool Omnibus Edition". Book by Hugh Howey, January 25, 2012.

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• I told you before, Katsa. I won't fight when you're angry. I won't solve a disagreement between us with blows." He lifted the ice and fingered his jaw. He moaned and held the ice to his face again. "What we do in the practice rooms-that's to help each other. We don't use it against each other. We're friends, Katsa. We're too dangerous to each other. And even if we weren't, it's not right.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fighting, Ice, Faces

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

  Saul Alinsky

  Fighting, Land, Anything Goes

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.7, Vintage

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• The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong — for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

  Orson Scott Card

  Enemy, Insane, Foxholes

  "Ender's Shadow". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1999.

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• The last thing I wanted to do was blow up another school.

  Rick Riordan

  School, Lasts, Wartime

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• He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day." I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly." "Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them.

  Richelle Mead

  Teacher, School, Mean

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• When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen

  George R. R. Martin

  Stars, Children, Wind

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.634, Bantam

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• Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.

  Gayle Forman

  Wind, Sometimes, Expecting

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Year”, p.35, Penguin

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• hey Lynch I didn't leave that car for it to sit while you just blow III

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Car, Hey

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