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• Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

  Klaus Kinski

  Broken Heart, Running, Hurt

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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• It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

  Lester Bangs

  Air, Hands, Buttons

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

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• You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

  Matthew Broderick

  Fighting, Hands, Mind

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• Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Leadership, World, Tables

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• In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

  Victor Hugo

  Hands, Peace And Love, Stills

  "Toilers of the Sea".

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• One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Educational, School, People

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• Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

  Brandon Sanderson

  Clever, World, Enough

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• I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

  Charlie Sheen

  Fire, Breathing, Done

  "CHARLIE SHEEN RAGES in Open Letter". www.tmz.com. February 25, 2011.

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• He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

  Stephen King

  Ghost, Twister, Stammering

  "It". www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding with all the conflicting forces, following the general laws of violence of the picture... These force-lines must encircle and involve the spectator so that he will in a manner be forced to struggle himself with the persons in the picture.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Struggle, Law, Phases

  "Les exposants au public". Booklet, p. 8, February 1912.

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• You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Trying, Ems

  "To Kill A Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.

  Kerry Washington

  Party, Thinking, Air

  "Kerry Washington" by Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 09, 2010.

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• Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.

  Emma Stone

  Air, Numbers, Waiting

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• A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Flower, Waiting, Bud

  Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Power, Hands

  "The International Chemical Worker", Vol. 13-15, p. 192, 1953.

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• We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel

  Hands, Openness, Truth And Justice

  Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (1983). “Christ in a Poncho: Testimonials of the Nonviolent Struggles in Latin America”

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• There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob that won't turn, a door that sticks and never budges, is a nuisance to the gods. The gods may kick in the jamb. Worse, they may walk away in disgust, leaving us to hang dumbly from our tight hinges, deprived of any other chance in life to swing open into unnecessary risk and thus into enchantment.

  Tom Robbins

  Destiny, Swings, Doors

  "Continental Drifting With Tom Robbins" by Mary Eisenhart, www.sfgate.com. July 23, 2000.

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• The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny.

  Charles Simic

  Thinking, Here I Am, Space

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• When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Boys, Faces

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• The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Freedom, Swings, Noses

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• We started this together, Leo. Seems only right you come along. You find us a ride, you're in." "Yes!" Leo pumped his fist. * * * * * Jason gazed up at the dragon and shook his head in amazement. "Leo, what have you done?" "Found a ride!" Leo beamed. "You said I could go on the quest if I got you a ride. Well, I got you a class-A metallic flying bad boy! Festus can take us anywhere!

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Class, Dragons

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• Okay, yeah, he staggered back and fell into the condiments. Big deal. There wasn't any blood. I didn't even get him in the face. He saw my fist coming, and at the last minute he ducked, so instead of punching him in the nose, like I intended, I ended up punching him in the neck. I highly doubt it even left a bruise.

  Meg Cabot

  Blood, Doubt, Bruises

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.

  Mitch Albom

  Baby, Knowing, Hands

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• Fight your battles with words, not fists

  Ann M. Martin

  Fighting, Battle

  Ann Martin, Ann M. Martin (2012). “Belle Teal”, p.111, Scholastic Inc.

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