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• In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.

  Karen Mills

  October, Credit, Small Business

  "Questioning The SBA: Karen Mills Fields Questions From Our Board Of Directors". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2011.

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• In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.

  Emily Mortimer

  Jobs, Fun, Years

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• You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mistake, School, Language

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

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• When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Championship, Pitcher

  "Jennie Finch on motherhood, marathons and being 'a machine'" by Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2012.

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• She could've looked at the tiny miracles in front of her: my feet, my hands, my fingers, the shape of my shoulders beneath my jacket, my human body, but she only stared at my eyes. The wind whipped again, through the trees, but it had no force, no power over me. The cold bit at my fingers, but they stayed fingers. "Grace," I said, very softly. "Say something." "Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Hands, Wind

  "Shiver". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, August 1, 2009.

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• I crushed on the most popular guy in school! I saw him at a concert and I shouted out," Is that Shane Lopes? You were the most popular guy in my class, but you never wanted to go out with me. Instead it was Amanda Wayne. What are you thinking now?

  Katy Perry

  Crush, School, Thinking

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• Then he reached up and tore my shirtfront open. "Not much to see, is there?" I said, struggling to talk with a crushed windpipe. "I know, I know, they can fix things like that these days. Call me a feminist, but I think a woman's worth should be defined not by the size of her bust, but - " I rammed my fist up into his Adam's apple. He grunted and stumbled back. "- by the strength of her right hook.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Struggle, Thinking, Apples

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.252, Vintage Canada

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• I touched my lips to hers again, and this time, it was a very different sort of kiss. It was six years’ worth of kissing, her lips coming to life under mine, tasting of orange and of desire. Her fingers ran through my sideburns and into my hair before linking around my neck, alive and cool on my warm skin. I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. For once in my human life, my mind didn’t wander to compose a song lyric or store the moment for later reflection. For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else. -Sam

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Song, Kissing, Reflection

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• You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.

  Darren Shan

  Suicide, Dream, Regret

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• He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,” Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Moving, Fall, Air

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.134, Random House

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• Dovewing felt bone-weary from her ears to the tip of her tail. Just because she had better hearing, sharper senses than any cat didn't seem to give her more strength. She needed to rest, eat, talk with Jayfeather and Lionblaze about the challenge that sol had left them with, of hostile Clans that would be crushed by the dark forest if they tried to fight alone. Starclan, light my path, please. "Come on," she meowed to Hollyleaf. "It's time we went home. Our Clnmates are waitning for us P. 315

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Home, Fighting

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• In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

  Jodi Picoult

  Tattoo, Art, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Stars, Laughter, Love You

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan

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• It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.

  Kristin Cashore

  Heart, Hard, Hard Things

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.157, Penguin

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• Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Doe

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.25, Xist Publishing

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• Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.” Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Grace, Said, Sam Roth

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.287, Scholastic Inc.

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• In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy, a curiosity that was too sharp to be crushed immediately, a lack of order in his ideas, a weakening of his spiritual boundaries, which were promptly twisted, an excessive passion for running along forked roads and wearying of the path as soon as he had started on it, mental indigestion demanding varied dishes, quickly tiring of the foods he desired, digesting almost all, but badly, was his state.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Running, Spiritual, Passion

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• Besides my professional goals, I have a couple of private ones, my man. One of those is to pet a kangaroo before I leave Australia. I understand there's lots of Eastern Grays around this area. What do you say? Are you in?' Bergman looked at him like he'd just made the worst financial investment of his life. 'Kangaroos are wild animals. I've heard they claw like girl fighters and kick like jackhammers. You're going to get your skull crushed.' Cole held up a finger. 'Or I'm going to pet a kangaroo. How cool would that be?

  Jennifer Rardin

  Girl, Couple, Animal

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• Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or—and the outward semblance is the same—crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Character, Fate

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “The Scarlet Letter (Annotated And Illustrated Edition)”, p.178, Jazzybee Verlag

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• And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all.

  Koushun Takami

  Car, Dry, More Time

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• It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.

  Jodi Picoult

  Disappointment, Mistake, Believe

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• The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Strong, Lying, Fate

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Weight”, Canongate Books

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• For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

  Saint Augustine

  Stars, Heart, Humble

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.115

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• (from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  President, Diaries, Hay

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• How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.

  Henry Rollins

  Memories, Lying, Heart

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.127, Villard

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