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• Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Break A Leg, Discovery

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• Break open the forbidden happiness.

  Rob Brezsny

  Happiness, Forbidden

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• Drugging out symptoms does not solve the problem, it helps us ignore it - until the vehicle breaks down.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Health, Doe, Helping

  Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree bends and does not break. He advises us to bend and not to break.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Blow, Wind

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• Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Knowing, Taoism, Flow

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• Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

  Zhuangzi

  Knowledge, Taoism, Breaking Down

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• Friends now fast sworn,
  Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart,
  Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise
  Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love,
  Unseparable, shall within this hour,
  On a dissension of a doit, break out
  To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes,
  Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep
  To take the one the other, by some chance,
  Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
  And interjoin their issues.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Heart, Sleep

  William Shakespeare, Lee Bliss (2000). “Coriolanus”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

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• I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

  Angela Merkel

  Strong Women, Might, Strong

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• Character, character, character. First, second and third ... we were pretty rusty initially. When you have a break for a few weeks you get a bit of rust.

  Graham Henry

  Character, Firsts, Rust

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• Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Pain, Winning, Men

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• Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is lifted from its rack out into the morning. On another rack the oars hang ready to be greased and slipped into the locks. Then, awakened to the river and the feel of the oars, the oarsmen blend in fulfillment of the shell. The symphony is not of competition. It is the synchronous motion over water, the harmonic flexing of wood and muscle, where each piece of equipment and every oarsman is both essential to, and the limit of motion itself.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Morning, Symphony, Rivers

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• Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

  Neil Sheehan

  Mean, Car, Literature

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• Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a better society and address raging inequality, create huge numbers of jobs, rebuild our public infrastructure. But, we can't do it unless we break every single rule in the free-market playbook. Which is why the worst people in the world all deny climate change.

  Naomi Klein

  Jobs, Opportunity, Numbers

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• I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me.

  John J. Geddes

  Reflection, Moon, Light

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• Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.

  Helen Keller

  Dog, Giving, Silence

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• Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.

  Dorian Yates

  Bodybuilding, Make Or Break, Requirements

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• The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and innermost reponses to our world - to hunger and torture and the threat of annihilation - we touch that boundless heart.

  Joanna Macy

  Heart, Our World, Soul

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• It's nice, it gives you a feeling of security so that if something breaks we know we can always call a guy over and he'll bring a drill or something.

  Brooke Shields

  Nice, Stupid, Giving

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• I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

  Catherine Bell

  College, Would Be, Shy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect love, a human love. In this time of uncertainty, can I continue to love, even if it breaks my heart?

  Velcrow Ripper

  Love, Beautiful, Heart

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• I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help

  Aron Ralston

  Suicide, Suicidal, Six Months

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• I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

  Liz Phair

  Thinking, Self, Trying

  "Return to Guyville". Interview with Carlene Bauer, www.elle.com. June 10, 2008.

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• It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way in I can see no way through and no space. Everything is close to my face and everything close to my face is stone. I don't have much knowledge yet in grief, so this darkness makes me feel small. You, be the Master; Make yourself fierce; break in. And then your great transforming will happen to me And my great grief cry will happen to you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Grief, Struggle, Rocks

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• But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats?

  Gregory Corso

  Cat, Light, Perspective

  Gregory Corso (1962). “Selected poems”

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• I don't have to run from none of these fighters. If I want to keep my defense tight and break em' down I can.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Running, Motivation, Defense

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