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• The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.

  Hideki Tojo

  Strong, War, Japan

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• If you can give it, I can take it
  'Cause if this heart is gonna break it's gonna take a lot to break it
  I know tonight, somebody's gonna win the fight
  So if you're so tough, come on and prove it
  Your heart is down for the count and you know you're gonna lose it
  Tonight you're gonna go down in flames
  Just like Jesse James

  Cher

  Song, Heart, Fighting

  Song: Just Like Jesse James, Album: Heart of Stone

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• In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

  Joanna Newsom

  School, Math, Rhyming

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

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• The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world's routine.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Discipline, World, Fasting

  Jentezen Franklin (2009). “Fasting Study Guide”, p.25, Charisma Media

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• With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Dream, Goal

  Og Mandino (2011). “Og Mandino's University of Success: The Greatest Self-Help Author in the World Presents the Ultimate Success Book”, p.339, Bantam

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• Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.

  Barbara Madsen

  Children, Rights, Adoption

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• Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Heart, World, Contact

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• Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Two, Giving

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• How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Hands, Twists, Necks

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”

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• God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Reality, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspiring, Achievement, Records

  Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall (1993). “Arnold”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  Tammy Bruce

  People, Care, Social

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• Name me no names for my disease,
  With uninforming breath;
  I tell you I am none of these,
  But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known,
  For brooks that I had crossed,
  Before I met this flesh and bone
  And followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last,
  Yet name no name of ills.
  Say only, “Here is where he passed,
  Seeking again those hills.

  Witter Bynner

  Heart, Names, Disease

  Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”

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• Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.

  Johannes Gutenberg

  Religious, Wings, Numbers

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• If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.

  Derek Sanderson

  Fighting, Winning, Nhl

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• Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.

  Claude Bernard

  Ideas, Long, Intellectual

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.

  Peter Akinola

  Broken, Illusion, Communion

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• Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a law that's evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer.

  Tom Shadyac

  Cancer, Years, Law

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• Later when I thought of the chickens, one of those rare pale blue eggs rose up into my throat. The chickens had been part of our family, and the egg in my throat was the feeling of something missing. It was hard and smooth and heavy, but also so fragile it might break and make me cry. It was the feeling of growing out of a favorite shirt, milk spilled on the floor, the last bit of honey in the jar, falling apple blossoms. It was the lump in the throat behind everything beautiful in life.

  Melissa Coleman

  Beautiful, Fall, Blue

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• There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.

  Mark Lawrence

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.43, Penguin

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• The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here (in Hollywood), you can see everybody wants his break.

  Berenice Bejo

  Book, Differences, Acting

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I know with me, you really have to, like, pound me over the head to say, 'I like you. I really like you' to get me to see it. I think if you're too passive, you just fall into that friend role. And that's hard to break out of.

  Kiele Sanchez

  I Like You, Fall, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

  Bill de Blasio

  Real, Opportunity, Years

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

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• But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.

  Helen Simonson

  Heart, Together, Watches

  Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.380, A&C Black

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• Entropy is one of the laws of thermodynamics. It's a physical law that says everything in nature is moving from order to disorder. In our lives this same principle is at work. As time moves on, things break down as we make mistakes. This is the 'letdown' every person experiences because of sin. For Christians this concept doesn't end there because we realize God's 'beautiful' mercy and grace restores the order in our lives.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Christian, Mistake

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