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• When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

  Kim Wilde

  Together, Ends, Ifs

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• As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

  Ernst Toller

  People, Needs, Social

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• I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

  Harry Mathews

  Easter, Upper East Side, Sides

  "Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". The Brooklyn Rail Interview, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.

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• I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

  Claire Forlani

  Marijuana, Smoking, Looks

  "Escape From the '80s" by Allison Glock, GQ, December, 1997.

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• God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.

  Brad Stine

  Believe, Yeah, Wells

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• Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Thinking, Wings

  Phillips Brooks (1906). “The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings”

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• I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.

  Eric Church

  Thinking, Artist, People

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• I've never talked to our guys about being young. That's an easy crutch to fall on. You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.

  Scott Brooks

  Team, Fall, Guy

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• It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

  Angie Stone

  Order, Feelings, Accepted

  "Angie Stone: Soul on the Outside". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. August 16, 2012.

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• Being on one crutch to no crutches is a huge difference.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Differences, Huge

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• My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.

  Ken Venturi

  Father, Excuse, Said

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• I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.

  Mark Twain

  Eye, Simple, Men

  Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.90, University of Iowa Press

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• For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

  Holly Black

  Curse

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Time, Clubs, Accomplish

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• I have learned that human beings are not searching for philosophies, even though it may seem that way sometimes. We are searching for something we can trust. And when we find ourselves in the midst of change, the philosophies are like a broken crutch. They do not hold us up. What supports us is a force, an energy, a vortex of love that expresses through us as warmth, creativity, service, and compassion.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Philosophy, Creativity, Compassion

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• One foote is better then two crutches.

  George Herbert

  Two

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

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• My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn’t advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. That’s all that I can say. ‘If I fall....’ - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Fall, People, Made

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• Your as slow as a fat kid on crutches

  P. C. Cast

  Kids, Fats, Fat Kid

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Untamed: A House of Night Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes in the hallway or lean small wooden crutches in what I refer to as 'the baby's room,' which is actually a tiny space where I make things. I continue to call it the baby's room because it confuses people and it's creepy.

  Amy Sedaris

  Baby, Children, Shoes

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• When I bite you, it'll be because I want to make your toes curl and your hair stand on end. And you won't need stitches afterward. You'll need crutches.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Hair, Curls, Needs

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• The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out of the window; bandaged forearms made the Red Salute. It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding slowly down, and all the while the guns on the open trucks making one's heart leap as guns always do, and reviving that pernicious feeling, so difficult to get rid of, that war *is* glorious after all.

  George Orwell

  Cheer, War, Heart

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.203, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers

  J.P. Moreland

  Emotional, Placebo, Unbelievers

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• Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).

  George Herbert

  World, Bones, Carpenter

  George Herbert (1941). “The works of George Herbert”, Oxford University Press

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• I have seen how patients with arthritis, crippled for years, have left their crutches and beds and walked.at the biological clinics (Europe). After a few days or weeks of simple and harmless treatments, the pain from which they suffered for years disappeared and their joints became mobile and flexible again.

  Paavo Airola

  Pain, Simple, Years

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• Is it not possible to look beyond the canes, the wheelchairs, the braces, and the crutches into the hearts of the people who have need of these aids? They are human beings and want only to be treated as ordinary people. They may appear different, move awkwardly, and speak haltingly, but they have the same feelings. ... They want to be loved for what they are inside, without any prejudice for their impairment. Can there not be more tolerance for differences-differences in capacity, differences in body and in mind?

  James E. Faust

  Moving, Inspiration, Heart

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