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• Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.

  David St. John

  Prayer, Ambition, Clothes

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• Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.113, Penguin

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• Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.

  Mason Cooley

  Break A Leg, Inspire, Trying

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• There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

  Wallis Simpson

  Marriage, Divorce, Tangled

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• Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human' infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Passion, Hands, Judging

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 357, 1895.

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• You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

  Evel Knievel

  Hurt, Pain, Eye

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• The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Ice, Wind

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.193, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You are not here to fix anything, because nothing is broken, but everything is continually changing and expanding. Release your struggle, and seek joy and fun, and in doing so, you will align with the fantastic expanding rhythm of this Universe.

  Esther Hicks

  Fun, Struggle, Joy

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• Don't worry about this world; it is not broken. And don't worry about others. You worry more about them than they do. There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield who are more alive than they've ever been before. Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience.

  Esther Hicks

  Trust, War, People

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• In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).

  Kenneth Keniston

  Family, Program, Break

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Country, Children, Dangerous World

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Museums, Mirrors

  Jorge Luis Borges (2000). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity.

  Andy Stanley

  Dream, People, Purity

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• An old man, broken with the storms of state,
  Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
  Give him a little earth for charity!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Giving, Dying

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 21

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• Only when we're broken are we whole.

  Nichole Nordeman

  Whole

  Twitter post from Jul 25, 2015

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• The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.

  Laurence Sterne

  Character, Men, Omission

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• Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Break, Hard

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• It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

  Rich Robinson

  Music, Disappointment, Regret

  "Black Crowes have broken up, says Rich Robinson". www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me, and what excites me I write about. Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.

  Kristin Hunter

  Writing, Order, People

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• I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to keep playing in spite of your loss, many will applaud the effort. And who knows? Others may be inspired to pick up their broken instruments, their broken lives, and begin again.

  Steve Goodier

  Loss, Effort, Needs

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• Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!
  Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
  Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;
  Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, War, Archer

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Isaac Reed (1801). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Henry VI, pts. II-III. Dissertation, &c. Richard III”, p.487

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• Be happy, we’re worth more broken.

  Stephanie Kallos

  Stephanie Kallos (2007). “Broken for You”, p.379, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible.

  Tom Chatfield

  Ideas, Games, Challenges

  "Can Video Games Alter Society.. in a Good Way?" by Tom Chatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.

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• A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.

  Frank Herbert

  Lonely, Hate, Matter

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• If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.

  Jeb Bush

  Jobs, Children, Heart

  Jeb Bush at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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