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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody that I want to kick in the crutch I had better kick them in the crutch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.

  Maurice Bowra

  World, Want, Way

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Time, Clubs, Accomplish

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• The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Long, Leaving

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.213

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• What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.

  Gillian Anderson

  Atheist, School, Crowds

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• As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

  Charlize Theron

  Writing, Fighting, Teeth

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects. That's why I get so mad about people who are down on vocal reverb. It's not a crutch, people, it's an aesthetic choice!

  Kelly Hogan

  Player, Guitar, Color

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We all use texting as a crutch because it's so easy and it doesn't really stop our day for the most part but I think to assure a woman you want to go out, to see that you're serious, you take the extra effort to pick up the phone and make a phone call.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Thinking, Phones, Effort

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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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• Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
  Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

  John Webster

  Men, Evil, Black

  John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.50

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• The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Mean, Numbers, Careers

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• I talk to golfers, I talk to my grand kids about their game, and tell them to develop a system, Now, when they're young. And if they develop that system, it will be the crutch they need to be good. To know that system and make it work for you, know what it is and make it work.

  Arnold Palmer

  Kids, Games, Needs

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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