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• In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Sky, Lines, Towns

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• I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Memories, Fate, Men

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• The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely."

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Government, Worry, Risk

  "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, April 17, 2007.

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• As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if within an hour there after a swifty gliding aeroplane might take its flight from St Petersburg and drop half a ton of dynamite above the enemy's war offices? Could any nation afford to war upon any other with such hazards in view?

  John Brisben Walker

  War, Russia, Japan

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• Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless.

  Dave Barry

  Real, Advice, Irs

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• For the life of me I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite in those holes, and detonate that dynamite, and seal that leak. Seal it permanently.

  Phil Gingrey

  Ocean, Feet, Environmental

  The Monday Show, www.today.com. June 22, 2010.

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• I lifted my right foot to step up into the bus and collided head on with an invisible force that entered my awareness like a silently exploding stick of dynamite blowing the door of my usual consciousness open and off its hinges, splitting me in two. In the gaping space that appeared, what I had previously called "me" was forcefully pushed out of its usual location inside me into a new location that was approximately a foot behind and to the left of my head. "I" was now behind my body, looking out at the world without using the body's eyes.

  Suzanne Segal

  Eye, Doors, Two

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• A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

  John Cowper Powys

  Islands, Opiates, Poison

  John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon

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• Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Gone, Charity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4158, Delphi Classics

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• I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them.

  Rutger Hauer

  Moving, Thinking, Careers

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• You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Moving, Prejudice, Opinion

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God”, p.25, George Bernard Shaw

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• Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Doors, Satire

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

  Charles Jencks

  Block, July, Grace

  Charles Jencks (2012). “The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons

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• I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.

  George Saunders

  Blow, Giving, Holes

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December”, p.23, A&C Black

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• [On creating] And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going "You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know."

  Robin Williams

  Weed, Thinking, Littles

  "Inside the Actors Studio (Season 7, Episode 14: Robin Williams)". Talk-Show, June 10, 2001.

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• The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. . . .

  Dave Barry

  Money, Business, Real

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• People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

  Mac Anderson

  Motivation, People, Achievement

  Mac Anderson (2015). “You Can't Send a Duck to Eagle School: And Other Simple Truths of Leadership”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

  Sergio Leone

  Funny, Movie, Humorous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.

  Rebecca Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Emotional

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• Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.

  Franklin Graham

  Spiritual, Prayer, Powerful

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• If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Stupid, Blow, Brain

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.59, Penguin

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• All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Communication, Waiting, Attention

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• He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire.

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Party, Sleep

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.75, Emblem Editions

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• Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

  Mark Twain

  Tradition, Century, Customs

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Funny, Running, Ideas

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