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• A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

  George Washington

  Moving, Government, Half

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.306

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• To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

  Emile Zola

  Legs, Lourdes, Difficulty

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• I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

  Mark Twain

  Hunting, Long, Waiting

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.18, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• People are gonna think that MTV censored me, and they really didn't. I really wanted to try to make a show that didn't rely on offensive, edgy material because I think it was an exercise in trying to write without that. Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.

  Bo Burnham

  Writing, Kids, Exercise

  Source: www.uloop.com

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• Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

  Tom Stoppard

  Christian, Atheist, Reality

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.

  A. R. Bernard

  Excuse, Uncommitted

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• You don't have to just hit nails with hammers, you know; you can use a hammer to beat somebody's brains in, to make armor or break a car window. You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch but the best crutch I could have.

  Stephen Bruner

  Car, Brain, Hammers

  "Thundercat’s Touching Bass". Interview with Tempe Nakiska, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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• "Do not lean on your own understanding." That means don't bring in the crutches and lean on them, those crutches that you have designed and made to handle such situations. Stay away from them. Don't lean on them; lean on God.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Mean, Understanding, Made

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.40, Thomas Nelson

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• When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

  Linda Chavez

  United States, Citizens, Welfare

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• Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.

  Tim Sandlin

  Religious, Alcohol, Healthy

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• Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.

  Bill Cosby

  Home, Color, Challenges

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• Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

  C. S. Lewis

  Journey, Needs, Use

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've never quite felt totally comfortable up on stage. I've gotten more comfortable, but drinking wine is a crutch that gives me a little courage. It helps me lose a little bit of the self-consciousness and the awareness of how awkward it is standing on a stage with lights and a bunch of people looking at you while you sing love songs.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Drinking, Wine

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Integrity, Mean, Opportunity

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• A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Believe, Fall, Survival

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• Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness.

  David G. McAfee

  Believe, Way, Moral

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Nov 09, 2011

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• There was a small boy on crutches. I do not know his name, and I suspect I never will. But I will never forget his face, his smile, his sorrow. He is one of the millions robbed of hope and dignity by charlatans discussed in this book. Wherever and whoever he is, I apologize to him for not having been able to protect him from such an experience. I humbly dedicate this book to him and to the many others who have suffered because the rest of us began caring too late.

  James Randi

  Book, Caring, Boys

  James Randi (1987). “The Faith Healers”

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• There is a grand fearlessness in faith. He who in his heart of hearts reverences the good, the true, the holy--that is, reverences God--does not tremble at the apparent success of attacks upon the outworks of faith. They may shake those who rest on those outworks--they do not move him whose soul reposes on the truth itself. He needs no prop or crutches to support his faith. Founded on a Rock, Faith can afford to gaze undismayed at the approaches of Infidelity.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Faith, Moving, Heart

  Frederick William Robertson (1861). “Sermons ...”, p.192

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• Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.

  Charles Lamb

  Faith, Mistake, Dark

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• Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.

  Wendell Phillips

  Children, Government, Self

  Wendell Phillips (1863). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.307, Gale Cengage Learning

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• Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.

  Philip Massinger

  News, Ill, Walks

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• Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.

  Chrystos

  Cities, Names, Knees

  Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

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• If God is a crutch, then atheism is a coma.

  Brad Stine

  Atheism, Coma, Ifs

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• There's something nice and valuable and wonderful about the suspense and the classic horror that doesn't just crutch on blood and the almost pornographic view of fear.

  Amber Heard

  Nice, Views, Blood

  "Amber Heard Talks THE WARD and NBC’s THE PLAYBOY CLUB". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 7, 2011.

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