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• I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

  Barack Obama

  Office, Waiting, Debt

  "Obama fires up House Democrats to help push through stimulus bill". www.cnn.com. February 6, 2009.

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• I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

  Guru Nanak

  Feet, Way, Praying

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• The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

  Saadi

  Heaven, Earth, Faces

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• Trust God where you cannot see Him. Do not try to penetrate the cloud He brings over you; rather look to the bow that is on it. The mystery is God's; the promise is yours.

  John Ross Macduff

  God, Christian, Clouds

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• Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Appreciate, Ignorant

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1839). “Common School Journal”

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• Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

  John Milton

  Teacher, Teaching, Men

  John Milton (2013). “The Collected Prose Works of John Milton (Annotated Edition)”, p.328, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

  Laozi

  Wish, Moderation, Wish You

  Laozi (1999). “Laozi”

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• The bow always strung ... will not do.

  George Eliot

  Stress, Intensity

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• I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Gymnasiums

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.30, 谷月社

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• We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

  William Wordsworth

  God, Men, Names

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.252

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• The heathen in his blindness
  Bows down to wood and stone.

  Reginald Heber

  Stones, Woods, Blindness

  'From Greenland's icy mountains' (1821 hymn). Heber later altered 'Ceylon's isle' to 'Java's isle'.

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• The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Literature, Bent, Frailty

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.337, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love isn't as simple as you wish it would be. On the other hand, it's nowhere near as complicated as you fear it is. My advice to you is to extinguish any itch you might have to compel love to serve any agenda whatsoever. Instead, bow down before it with all the innocence you can muster, and declare yourself ready to be its humble student and servant. Celebrate through surrender.

  Rob Brezsny

  Love, Humble, Simple

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• WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Echoes, Names, Back When

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.181, Shambhala Publications

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• Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.

  Laozi

  People, Heaven, Taoism

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• Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.

  Matt Smith

  Silly, Ties, Boots

  "When Esquire met Doctor Who". Interview, www.esquire.co.uk. April 1, 2010.

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• Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.

  Dhani Jones

  Mean, Ties, Nerd

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• Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Dark, Sky

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.614, Wordsworth Editions

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• I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides.

  Neil Peart

  Spiritual, Baby, Art

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• The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Dream, Exercise, Mind

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• If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or ability is only through right practice.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Real, Archery, Practice

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• Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.

  Leon Uris

  Wall, Ghetto, Men

  LEON URIS (1961). “MILA 18”

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• The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Believe, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.94, HarperCollins UK

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• For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is a mistake-there is no other word. Where else can the restless human mind find means to tie the infinite in a finite bow?

  David Berlinski

  Mistake, Mean, Men

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.

  Fred Bear

  Fun, Gun, Hunting

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