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• I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Relationship, Girlfriend, House

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.604, Scholastic Inc.

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• I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

  Mark Twain

  Too Much, Trifling, Occasions

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• It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be. Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift. I think one of the most important things is starting off the day forgiving others and forgiving yourself. You learn from your mistakes, but I don't think you have to drag them back into today.

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Mistake

  "Joel Osteen on Power of Prayer, Forgiveness, Trusting in God's Timetable". Interview with Melissa Barnhart, www.christianpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Winning

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.131, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Investing intelligently in those of us who are marginalised means fewer people in jail, fewer homeless, fewer unemployed, fewer of us who are forlorn and depressed, fewer people addicted to things that drag us down... Because as we invest in those that do it tough, we will see more Australians taking pride in themselves, having realisable dreams and aspirations and making their own positive contribution to the world's greatest nation.

  Simon McKeon

  Leadership, Dream, Business

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• Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

  Booker T. Washington

  People, Stronger, Ethics

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• Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that brought to them substantial memories of the girls they had left behind in London or Manchester. As the Quartermaster Captain lisped after performing before a particularly rapt audience: 'I bet there were more standing pricks than snotty noses tonight'. Astonishingly, I suspect he was right. We probably helped to keep the home fires of passion burning.

  Eric Hiscock

  Girl, Memories, War

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• No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Jobs, Teaching, Cutting

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• Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.

  Loren Eiseley

  Fear, Philosophy, Struggle

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.121, Library of America

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• Commute me, execute me. Don't drag it out.

  Jesse Bishop

  Death Penalty

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• Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

  Peter Watts

  Powerful, Best Effort, Kicking

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• I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Respect, Truth, Too Much

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• Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Growth, Development

  "Why the economy needs nature" by Tony Juniper, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2013.

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• We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp.

  Guy Steele

  Winning, Halfway, Programmers

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• I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it...Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  Van Morrison

  Spiritual, Song, Jobs

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• Settle down, it'll all be clear
  Don't pay no mind to the demons
  They fill you with fear
  The trouble it might drag you down
  If you get lost, you can always be found
  Just know you're not alone
  Cause I'm going to make this place your home

  Phillip Phillips

  Home, Mind, Might

  Song: Home

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  Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

  Betty White

  Funny, Jealousy, Humorous

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• A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn't afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that.

  Nick Harkaway

  Retirement, Real, Love You

  Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.181, Random House

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• You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running.

  Terri Farley

  Running, Horse, Expression

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• I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Want, Size

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

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• Happiness is a choice we make. You can wake up and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it's so cold,' or you can say, 'Oh, wow, this is a great opportunity for me to try out my new sweater.' No one can be consistently positive, but why not make the choice that makes you feel better rather than the one that drags you down?

  Miranda Kerr

  Believe, Feel Better, Opportunity

  "Miranda Kerr: 'Happiness Is a Choice We Make'" by Kathy Ehrich Dowd, people.com. November 12, 2013.

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• If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we? I think it's possible for two people to change together, to grow together and enrich instead of diminish each other. The sum of one and one, if they're the right ones, can be infinity! But so often one person drags the other down; one person wants to go up like a balloon and the other's a dead weight. I've always wondered what it would be like if both people, if a woman and a man both wanted to go up like balloons!

  Richard Bach

  Change, Future, Men

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• A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

  Charlie Munger

  Casinos, Financial, Institutions

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• We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

  Richard Bach

  Block, Tools, Sculpture

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• Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

  Anne Frank

  Dark, Wings, House

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.86, Bantam

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