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• Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Children, Race, Prejudice

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Sports, Strong, Pay The Price

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• No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

  Francois Mauriac

  Love, Best Friend, Friendship

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• After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Humility

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Friday, Atheist

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• The larks, still bravely singing, fly
  Scarce heard amid the guns below

  John McCrae

  Gun, Singing, Poppies

  'In Flanders Fields' (1915)

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• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  Damon Albarn

  Art, Interesting, Groups

  "Keeping it (un)real". Interview with Neil Gaiman, www.wired.com. July 1, 2005.

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• Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

  Max Muller

  Opposites, House, Church

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• When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Soldier, Liberty, Borders

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• I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

  Gene Ween

  Years, Sound, Want

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

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• And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Boundaries, Permission, Our Lives

  Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

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• In Flanders fields the poppies blow.

  John McCrae

  Blow, Fields, Poppies

  "In Flanders Fields" l. 1 (1915)

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, Military

  Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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• False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Fake People

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• Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Resurrection, Contradiction

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.405, A&C Black

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• A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Freedom, Humorous

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• I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.

  Jeremy Brett

  Yoga, Trying, Too Much

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

  Franco Nero

  Tombstone, Love Is, Years

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• A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

  Oscar Levant

  Men, Bridges, Double Standard

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• I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

  Gavin Bryars

  Writing, Thinking, Oboes

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• I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Religious

  "Johan Cruyff and the End of an Era" by Prof. Cas Mudde, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2016.

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• The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.

  Watchman Nee

  Blood, Christ On The Cross, Roots

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.10, CLC Publications

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• When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Truth, Real, Gone

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• We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

  Gijs de Vries

  Borders, Terrorism, Motivated

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• The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

  Freda Adler

  Sex, Mind, Barriers

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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