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• You don't have to blow out the other person's light to let your own shine.

  Bernard Baruch

  Light, Shining, Persons

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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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• When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.

  Charles Stanley

  Son, Destiny, Hands

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• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Mean, Giving

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• If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

  Peter Ustinov

  Sarcastic, Future, Sarcasm

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• But as I often say, terrorists wont check our party registration before they blow us up.

  Jane Harman

  Party, Checks, Registration

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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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• The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

  F. H. Bradley

  Struggle, Yield, Temptation

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 75, 1930.

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• Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

  Ivan Turgenev

  People, Understanding, Atheism

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• A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Torches, Use, Scalpels

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• Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

  Paula Abdul

  Positive, Real, Criticism

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• For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

  Aeschylus

  Literature

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• I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.

  John Bonham

  Drinking, Tired, Tea

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• I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.

  Bo Jackson

  Hate, People, Horny

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• And who am I to blow against the wind?

  David Levithan

  Wind

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  Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

  Abu Bakr

  Adversity, Action, Caliphs

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• I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Expectations, Want

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• One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Positive, Attitude, Wind

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• Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Men, Hair, Wind

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• The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

  James Larkin

  Men, Broken, Brooding

  James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press

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• The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.

  Jim Talent

  Iraq, People, Victory

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• I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Fate, Boxing

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• Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.

  Tim Vine

  Couple, Tricks, Knows

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• Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

  Will Rogers

  Life And Love, Business, Horny

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• Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  Carl Sandburg

  Night, Destiny, Wind

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.156, University of Illinois Press

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