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  I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Stars, Men

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• The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

  Paul Samuelson

  Hands, Survival, World

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1973). “The Samuelson sampler”

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• You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

  Mia Hamm

  Softball, Perseverance, Goal

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• But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things

  Richard Krajicek

  Pain, Able, Too Much

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• It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

  John Hughes

  Thanksgiving, Kids, Sitting

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• Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Inspirational, Music, Fun

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• She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

  Henry James

  Tables, Courses

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.586, e-artnow

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• If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

  Mick Foley

  Heaven, Ladders, World

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• The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.

  Jean Chretien

  Art, Wall, Light

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, 1985.

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• I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

  Kate Voegele

  Impossible, Knows, Can Do

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• My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Lying, Blood, Soul

  "Khrushchev: The Man and His Era". Book by William Taubman, 2002.

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• I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

  Hillary Clinton

  Health, Good Luck, Broken

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• When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.

  Ava DuVernay

  Jobs, Grease, Marketing

  "Ava DuVernay: The 'My Mic Sounds Nice'". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. August 24, 2010.

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• Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

  Russell Baker

  War, People, Culture

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• It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.

  Katy Perry

  Party, Bigs, Deals

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• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175

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• My mom was my English teacher in high school. So to be able to bend the rules and be the class clown and get to take on my religion, my mom, and my town all at the same time was glorious. I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit. If you're cracking a joke in school, it's sort of anti-authority, but it's in the nicest, "Please like me!" way.

  Paul Rust

  Mom, Teacher, School

  "Meet the Star of 'Love,' Judd Apatow’s New Netflix Series". Interview with Grace Wilson, www.motherjones.com. February 28, 2016.

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• Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Kindness, Fate

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• I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable.

  Veronica Roth

  Needs, Crowds, Way

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• Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

  Paul Auster

  Taken, Eye, Thinking

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• A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Mind, Coats

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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• Quinn sat back down. He leaned forward, elbows on knees. "Man, don't you remember taking tests in school? Multiple choice: A, B, C, D, or E, all of the above. "Yeah?" "Dude, sometimes the answer is 'all of the above.' This places needs you. And it needs Astrid. And it needs Sam. It's all of the above, Albert.

  Michael Grant

  School, Men, Multiple Choice

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• You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

  Dr. Seuss

  Winning, Places You Go, Places To Go

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• I’m Hana,” Hana says. “And this is Lena.” She jabs me with an elbow. I know I must look like a fish, standing there with my mouth gaping open, but I’m too outraged to speak. He’s lying. I know he’s the one I saw yesterday, would bet my life on it. “Alex. Nice to meet you.” Alex keeps his eyes on me as he and Hana shake hands. Then he extends a hand to me. “Lena,” he says thoughtfully. “I’ve never heard that name before.

  Lauren Oliver

  Nice, Lying, Eye

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• Hours later, Adam propped himself up on an elbow and stared down at Gabrielle, pondering what made beauty. He thought he was beginning to understand. It wasn't symmetry of features; it wasn't perfection. It was uniqueness. That which one person had that no other possessed. That which was only their own.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Perfection, Hours, Adam

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