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• Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti when I leaned in to open the door. Turns out it was already open, so I fell flat on my face like something from the Keystone Kops.

  Art Donovan

  Doors, Wife, Half

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• I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I had had that final altercation, and I felt real guilty because of that, too. Then years later, one day, I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, and I just broke down crying, because I finally got my father.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Father, Real, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Years, Ideas, Humanity

  "A Distant Mirror". Book by Barbara Tuchman, p. 581, 1978.

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• The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Years, Unity

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.564, Random House

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• Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance...what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans

  Novala Takemoto

  Balance, One Day, Doe

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• I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all.

  Mike Tyson

  Pet, Exotic, Lions

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

  Seumas MacManus

  Communication, Men, Noses

  Seumas MacManus (1950). “Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain”

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• It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Light, Dancer, Snapshots

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• We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Mother, Father, Broken

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• An intruder broke into Mike Tyson's hotel room in Las Vegas while he was sleeping but got out before Tyson could get to him. I don't know what's scarier. Having someone breaking into your room while you're sleeping or breaking into someone else's room and finding out the guy is Mike Tyson.

  Jay Leno

  Sleep, Vegas, Guy

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• The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.

  Alexander Lowen

  Community, Modern Life, Would Be

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• In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.

  Paul Tillich

  Men, Self, Years

  "The Courage to Be" by Paul Tillich, (p. 117), 1952.

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• Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Down And, Poverty

  Song: Broke Down Engine, Album: World Gone Wrong, 1993

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• Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.

  Plutarch

  Strong, Teaching, Son

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1874). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.190

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• We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Blue, Magic

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.64, Penguin

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• I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows

  Leonard Cohen

  Rainbow, Damnation, Prison

  Song: The Old Revolution, Album: Songs From A Room, 1969

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• From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.

  John Masefield

  Mother, Father, Heart

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.

  Mordecai Richler

  Phones, Missing, Age

  Mordecai Richler (1999). “The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• When they built you brother they broke the mold.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Brother, Mold, Built

  Song: Terry's Song, Album: Magic, 2007

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• When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long.

  James Cameron

  Party, Heart, Men

  The News Chronicle, November 14, 1956.

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• The Wisconsin senator gets up and says out loud what half of the country is thinking and talks about every day. This President broke the law and lied about it; he trashed the Constitution and hides himself in the flag.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Thinking, Law

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• So many people have that kind of attitude and approach to learning that it gives me great hope for the world. I say hope in the sense that innovations in science and technology will be the engines of a 21st century economy and I don't want to go broke, as a nation. So, the hope I have is that, if people embrace it, we'll have a healthier, more secure, wealthier nation than we have.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Attitude, Technology, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that’s where we are now.

  Marianne Williamson

  Responsibility, Mind, Hell

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it.

  William J. Clinton

  Europe, People, Progress

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1415, Best Books on

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• [Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the same fellow that gave them the 15 years of good growth and high wealth that came from it?

  Paul Keating

  Years, Growth, Triumph

  "7:30 Report" interview, May 08, 2006.

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