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• An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

  Rene Descartes

  Running, Attitude, Optimistic

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• I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Brain, Mind, Goes On

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• Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants

  Geraldo Rivera

  Inspirational, Jobs, Silly

  Geraldo Rivera (1992). “Exposing Myself”, Bantam Books

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• We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Diversity, Unity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.50, Jerome K. Jerome

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• I shall go the way of the open sea,
  To the lands I knew before you came,
  And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me
  The memory of your name.

  Adela Florence Nicolson

  Love, Memories, Ocean

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• May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

  George Jung

  Stars, Destiny, Wind

  "Fictional character: George Jung". "Blow", 2001.

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• Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.

  George Jung

  School, Marijuana, Prison

  "Fictional character: George Jung". "Blow", 2001.

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• Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

  Neil Innes

  Tired, Kissing, People

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• If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker.

  Jessica Hahn

  Giving, Want, Damn

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• The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.

  George Jung

  Body Weight, Tolerance, Half

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• There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Memories, Night, House

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• Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

  A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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• A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks

  Scott McClellan

  Safe Haven, Iraq, Desire

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• As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Kids, Two Sides

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• I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

  Maya Lin

  Teacher, School, Chemistry

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• Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.

  Simon Dach

  Friendship, Weather, Snow

  "Annie of Tharaw" as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

  Marlo Thomas

  Parent, Losing, Hardest

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• Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.

  Bernard Levin

  Men, Noses, Half

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• But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

  Lanford Wilson

  Cities, Lasts, Firsts

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• There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

  Beck

  Fall, Quality, Faces

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• Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.

  Robert Burns

  Liberty, Usurpers, Dies

  'Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn' (1799)

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• A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.

  Queen Latifah

  Couple, Crazy, Hands

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

  Bill Cosby

  Laughter, Worst Situation, Survival

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Art, Winter

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

  Rene Russo

  Birthday, Daughter, Mother

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