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• This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.

  Kenneth Clark

  Animal, Achievement, Library

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

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• There is a hollow, holey cylinder running from hilt to point in my machete. When I blow across the mouthpiece in the handle, I make music with my blade. When all the holes are covered, the sound is sad, as rough as rough can be and be called smooth. When all the holes are open, the sound pipes about, bringing to the eye flakes of sun on water, crushed metal. There are twenty holes. And since I've been playing music, I've been called all different kinds of fool - more times than Lobey, which is my name.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Running, Eye, Blow

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• I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of quicksand I plead with you to avoid. You are of a noble birthright. Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Father, Broken

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• May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security, and a quality of life that comes only with Democracy

  Ted Nugent

  Skulls, Enemy, Democracy

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• Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he could achieve anything, at the end he will be crushed inside my palm.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Men, Thinking, Yang

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• Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

  David Baldacci

  Life, Essence, Long

  David Baldacci (2002). “The Winner”, p.473, Hachette UK

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• Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to make up for their own childhood of crushed dreams and misspelled words.

  Craig Ferguson

  Dream, Children, People

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• ...There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to our knees with a sense of humility and be made to cry to God that He would visit us again.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Teaching, Humility, Order

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• If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

  Bill Hybels

  Leader, Antidote, Ifs

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• Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Evil, Stronger, Bud

  Philippicae, V. 11,

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• Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

  Herman E. Daly

  Reality, Growth, Hammers

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• An Animated Cartoon Theology:
  1. People are animals.
  2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain.
  3. Life is antagonistic to the living.
  4. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music.
  5. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning.
  6. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum.
  7. We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Pain, Smart, Animal

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• The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

  Roger Housden

  Heart, Moments, Harvest

  Roger Housden (2007). “Ten Poems to Change Your Life”, p.28, Harmony

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• Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Blessing, Opportunity

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• Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  Imogen Poots

  Thinking, Sometimes, Threatened

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

  Bob Costas

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Confused, People, Pits

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• I feel sick and disempowered, betrayed, angry and crushed by the corruption of all that I know is right.

  Chris Packham

  Sick, Betrayed, Corruption

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• God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Heart, Wine

  "The Great War". David Lloyd George's Speech delivered at the Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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• Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, War, Boots

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• Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed -
  Let it be that great strong land of love
  Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
  That any man be crushed by one above.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Strong, Kings

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.131, University of Missouri Press

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• Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.

  Mina Loy

  Gertrude, Research, Matter

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• Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand. ...Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Past, Hands, Imagination

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• There is profound responsibility in being Love... more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they'd be crushed by the realization of it.

  Adyashanti

  Responsibility, Impact, Profound

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• The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

  Anson Mount

  Believe, Vacation, People

  Source: collider.com

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