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• At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

  John Gould

  Moving, Ties, People

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• Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

  Virgil

  Broken Heart, Wise, Breakup

  'Aeneid' bk. 1, l. 203

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• Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.

  Kenneth Clark

  Beautiful, Transition, Facts

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Men, Knights

  1941 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, ch.1.

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• The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Taken, Mean, Ideas

  "Bend Sinister" by Vladimir Nabokov, (p. 6), 1963.

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• The cycle of God, the good, is broken by a single act of negativity. The cycle of negativity is stopped by choosing the good -- not just once, but again and again until it is goodness that prevails in your life and in our world altogether.

  John Morton

  Our World, Negativity, Goodness

  John Morton (2000). “The Blessings Already Are”, p.69, Mandeville Press

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• The ball has broken 50-50 for Keegan

  David Coleman

  Football, Balls, Commentators

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• Let's just say that I've had my heart broken more than once, and never learned a thing.

  Steve-O

  Heart, My Heart, Heart Broke

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

  Jet Li

  Actors, Pieces, Body

  "Jet Li Gets Philosophical in Fearless". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 19, 2006.

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• I like the idea of being sort of withdrawn and mysterious, and what can be more mysterious that someone wearing a trash bag, like a dark trash bag, with eye holes that say "nihilism?" You'd be curious. What's underneath that? Is it perfect? Or is it broken?

  Eugene Mirman

  Eye, Dark, Ideas

  "Eugene Mirman picks the hottest Halloween costumes, from naughty rabbi to mayonnaise". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 20, 2015.

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• I do have someone that I work with and she is amazing and I definitely don't have unmitigated abusive tendencies towards her. She is very sweet. I also know what that is like. I have heard my agent thinking he has hit mute on the phone before he, you know, physically unleashes broken glass and cellphones at his poor assistant. It is a tough job under the best of circumstances. I understand that.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Sweet, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A broken heart is merely an empty manger. Invite the Virgin and the carpenter to pray beside you. Invite the Savior to dwell there.

  Mark Hart

  Heart, Praying, Empty

  Mark Hart (2017). “Unleashing the Power of Scripture: A Guide for Catholics”, p.50, The Word Among Us Press

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• It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.

  Samuel Johnson

  Strong, Suffering, Peculiar

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.491

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• When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

  Sakya Pandita

  Men, Weak Man, Water

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• In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Men, Rocks, Careers

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Moving, Men

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.141, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.

  Sitting Bull

  Men, White Man, Made

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• Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.

  Marcelo Claure

  Decision, Firsts, Action

  "The Plan to Fix Sprint". Interview with Ryan Knutson, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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• On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.

  Havelock Ellis

  Eye, Men, Law

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• Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

  Robertson Davies

  Heart, Important, Stronger

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Government, Ninety, Money In Politics

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• Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dream, Pain, Evil

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• To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Heart, Warrior

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• Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.

  Marion Woodman

  Love You, Passion, Imagination

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• [W]e will do what we like with the bourgeoisie. ... We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Giving, Bourgeoisie

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