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• We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

  Jo Nesbo

  Understanding, Bombs, Disease

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.245, Random House

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• One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again.

  Thomas Bernhard

  One Day, Sake, Language

  Thomas Bernhard (1991). “On the mountain: rescue attempt, nonsense”

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• I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. Im into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Fashion, Art, Creating Things

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• Kissing a witch is a perilous business. Everybody knows it's ten times as dangerous as letting her touch your hand, or cut your hair, or steal your shoes. What simpler way is there than a kiss to give power a way into your heart?

  Emma Donoghue

  Heart, Kissing, Hair

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• Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not only repeatedly breathed but till all pulsation in the cord ceases. As otherwise the child is much weaker than it ought to be, a part of the blood being left in the placenta which ought to have been in the child and at the same time the placenta does not so naturally collapse, and withdraw itself from the sides of the uterus, and is not therefore removed with so much safety and certainty.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Children, Blood, Safety

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• If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

  Pete Seeger

  Guitar, Evening, Broke

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• People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, Nothing can go wrong with them. We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

  Karen Carpenter

  Thinking, People, Sick

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

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• You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.

  Peer Steinbruck

  Running, Media, Long

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• In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and Im never going to break the world record for the five miles. Its partly genetics; Im just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Running, Mind, Records

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• The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Oil, Perfect, Grease

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• Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

  Natasha Leggero

  Writing, Hamburgers, Jokes

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• Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Kind, Happy Endings, Dribble

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• Most people aren't cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain.

  Jean-Marie Eveillard

  Pain, People, Investing

  "Value Stocks Are Hot - But Most Investors Will Burn Out" by Jason Zweig, www.wsj.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Strong, Hate, And Love

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• If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

  Krista Tippett

  Loss, People, Missing

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• Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government.

  Matt Salmon

  Government, Choices, Political

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• The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Years, People, Income

  "Austan Goolsbee: Eric Cantor Misrepresenting Obama’s Economic Policies" by Bonnie Kavoussi, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.

  Zack Snyder

  Eye, Focus, Problem

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2010.

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• John Kerry said today that he wants to get rid of tax cuts for the rich and his wife said, 'Hey, shut up! What's the matter with you?! Are you nuts?!'

  Jay Leno

  Nuts, Wife, Hey

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• Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.

  Ben Lerner

  Fog, Feelings, Scare

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• Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing

  Douglas Adams

  Writing, Technology, Talking

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.11, Del Rey

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• I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.

  Serinda Swan

  Gymnastics, Hair, Years

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• I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.

  Alice Cooper

  Thinking, Cnn, Guy

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• But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Discovery

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.143

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• My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

  Chili Davis

  Dad, House, Said

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