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• The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda.

  Bob Graham

  White, House, Priorities

  "Cheney’s Trouble with the Truth" by Robert Scheer, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2005.

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• Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

  Jon Porter

  Teaching, School, Nursing

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• The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Fire, Flames, Blood

  "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". Book by Jonathan Edwards, July 8, 1741.

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• When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.

  Lu Xun

  Greatness, Two, Chinese

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• Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication? Will we bite our mother tongue with the teeth of indifference, crushing the taste buds of clarity and, without prompt application of the antiseptic of education, causing the gangrene of strained metaphors? Stand up, America, and let me hear your answer: Ain't no way, dude!

  Mike Nichols

  Mother, Communication, America

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• Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

  Harlan Coben

  Heart, World, Eggshells

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• I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.

  Richard Yates

  Heart, Stories, Humans

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• I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Powerful, Shantaram, Endless

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.299, Macmillan

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• Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mistake, Believe, Worry

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• Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

  Lydia M. Child

  People, Diversity, Forever

  "An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Chapter VI, utc.iath.virginia.edu. 1833.

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• The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Humble, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Hands, Law

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• You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Ideas, Suppressing

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

  John Stuart Mill

  Individuality, Liberty, Despotism

  On Liberty ch. 3 (1859)

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• The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Trying, True Nature

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1777, Simon and Schuster

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• A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

  Karl Popper

  Successful, Men, Decision

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.557, Routledge

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• Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre that moves an audience. You have the opportunity to literally impact the lives of people if they work on material that has integrity. But today, most actors simply want to be famous. Well, being an actor was never supposed to be about fame and money. Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

  Sanford Meisner

  Life, Religious, Integrity

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• When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

  Alan Redpath

  Christian, Men, Tasks

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• It is not worrying, but rather trusting and abiding in the peace of God that will crush anything that Satan tries to do to us. If the Lord created the world out of chaos, He can easily deal with any problem that we have.

  Rick Joyner

  Worry, Trying, Abiding

  Rick Joyner (2011). “High Calling: 50 Days to a Soaring Vision”, p.103, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.

  Eric Liddell

  Mean, Doe, Spirit

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• Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Memories, Careers

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• I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat. And then something I’d just like to spout off on. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything.

  Marilyn

  Art, Real, Thinking

  "When you're famous you run into human nature in a raw kind of way" by Richard Meryman, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2007.

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• Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Kindness, Force

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• No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it

  Bill W.

  Made, Calamity

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