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• We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.

  Lynn Shelton

  Real, Mistake, Blood

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• I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind,
  I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,
  But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind;
  I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Blood, Wind

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• Right to a speedy jury trial and so on and so forth. But what do they mean by 'person'? It certainly didn't mean individuals with flesh and blood like Native Americans who weren't persons, they don't have any rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Native American, Mean, Rights

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Dream, Blood, Flesh

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.87, University of Illinois Press

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• No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.

  L. Frank Baum

  Beautiful, Country, Home

  L. Frank Baum “The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz”, Lulu.com

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• Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared with a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Blood, Heaven

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• I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

  Isabel Allende

  Reality, Ideas, Blood

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• Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.

  Rob Bell

  Hurt, Blood, Sky

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.76, Harper Collins

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• Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Children, Powerful, Divorce

  Tess Gerritsen (2012). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl”, p.1060, Ballantine Books

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• The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade.

  Gaston Leroux

  Mother, Real, Artist

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.4, e-artnow

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• Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?

  Melina Marchetta

  Men, Thinking, Blood

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Blood, Perfect, Investing

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karin Jacobson (2004). “CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.

  Benjamin Carson

  Prayer, Blood, Mind

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• I - a philosopher - live in the cage of flesh and blood.

  Kedar Joshi

  Blood, Flesh, Cages

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• Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just a rope of acceptance to hang on to, but a flesh-and-blood hand to lead him out of the darkness of his past... And into a future that didn't require lies or excuses, because what he was, and what they were, was both extraordinary-and not hing out of the ordinary. Love, after all, was universal.

  J.R. Ward

  Lying, Cutting, Acceptance

  J.R. Ward (2013). “Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.578, Penguin

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• The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

  Simon Callow

  Responsibility, Elderly, Blood

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• If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.

  Ted Dekker

  Fighting, Reality, Blood

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• As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual has become adapted; and almost everything is unnatural outside his range of adaptation. Harmonious equilibrium with nature is an abstract concept with a Platonic beauty but lacking the flesh and blood of life. It fails, in particular, to convey the creative emergent quality of human existence.

  Rene Dubos

  Life, Home, Blood

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.28, Rutgers University Press

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• I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; that tender organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp, - tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has rained flesh and blood! With the liability to accident, we must see how little account is to be made of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Nature, Blood

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.187, Graphic Arts Books

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• I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Artist, Thinking, Blood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Lying, Real

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• A man's got to take care of his family. You live in my house, you sleep your behind on my bedclothes, you put my food in your belly because you are my son; you are my flesh and blood, not because I like you. It is my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you.

  James Earl Jones

  I Like You, Sleep, Responsibility

  "Remembering August Wilson". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 2, 2005.

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• In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Stars, Hero, Epic

  "What If Apollo 11 Failed? President Nixon Had Speech Ready" by Nola Taylor Redd, www.space.com. July 22, 2014.

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• If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Blood, Inmates

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• The virtual community? The word virtual does not mean "virtue." It means "not." When I go to the store and they say: The shirt that you brought in is virtually done. It means it is not done, in the same way that the virtual community is not a community. There is no commitment there. When you log off, you are not a member of it anymore. My flesh and blood community, the sense of knowing my neighbor, knowing the guy across the street, having dinner with the people down the block, getting along with each other and making compromises, that's a genuine community with a commitment.

  Clifford Stoll

  Block, Mean, Commitment

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