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

  Bill Cosby

  Laughter, Worst Situation, Survival

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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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• I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Men, Hot And Cold

  Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

  George Galloway

  Mean, People, Patriotism

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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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• With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

  Norman Mailer

  Wall, Pride, Artist

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Deer Park: A Novel”, p.368, Random House

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• I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

  Jim Morrison

  Hilarious, Intelligent, Soul

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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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• From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

  Carl Schurz

  Freedom, Spring, Equality

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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