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• Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

  Brennan Manning

  Contact, Offers

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• Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.

  Sam Walton

  Littles, Sells, Bits

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• The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

  Homer

  Cups, Bitter, Fortune

  Homer (1760). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.11

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• Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Wine, Night, Thinking

  Richard Henry Stoddard (1871). “The Book of the East: And Other Poems”, p.213

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• Don't let negative people drain your energy. Focus
  on your positive energy and kill them with kindness.
  Energy vampires are no match for your positive energy.

  Jon Gordon

  Kindness, People, Focus

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• Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.

  Derek Sivers

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• Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.

  Edgar Guest

  Life, Sweet, Cocktails

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• The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

  Al Lewis

  Strong, Class, Long

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• Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Teaching, Inspiration

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.89, Vintage

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• Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Dog, Wall

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• Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.

  N. T. Wright

  Death, Christian, Hope

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• Make use of radio, TV and films discriminatively; only for programs that will enhance our knowledge and culture. Television is tele-visham (tele-poison, in Malayalam). If we are not careful, it can corrupt our culture, damage our eyes and drain away our time.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Eye, Poison

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• Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you really don't remember, that's an even worse sign.)

  Christopher Hitchens

  Hangover, Night, Glasses

  "Hitch-22" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 6, 2010.

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• But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Smart, Stupid, Home

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• I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Running, Water

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

  Joyce Cary

  Mother, Children, Father

  Joyce Cary (1953). “Except the Lord: A Novel”, New York : Harper

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• It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

  Daniel Ek

  Artist, People, Diversity

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• The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe Nature does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Reflection, Desire

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

  Euripides

  Gone, May, Today

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mother, Baby, Blood

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Hate, Past, Men

  'Hellas' (1822) l. 1096

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• Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Important, Energy, Avoiding

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• Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Journey, Other Worlds

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• There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.

  John S. Hall

  People, Soul, Defense

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all idolatries, addiction taps this vital spiritual force and draws off its energies to objects and processes that drain the addict instead of fulfilling him.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Spiritual, Long, Addiction

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