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Bill Walton is incredible. If you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture.

Stan Albeck

Basketball, Stress, Feet

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After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

Jodi Picoult

Stress, Heart, Broken

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She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.

Salman Rushdie

Color, Rainbow, Saws

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He looks at me, the light in his eyes fractures into millions of bits—a kaleidoscope of darkness that may never be fixed.

Alyson Noel

Eye, Light, Darkness

Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.568, Pan Macmillan

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Prince would have been the person I thought would live forever because of the way he took care of himself - not counting the fact he jumped off risers in 6-inch heels. He probably had fractures from his feet all the way up to his head.

Stevie Nicks

Feet, Forever, Care

Source: www.usmagazine.com

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It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

Vincent Van Gogh

Brain, Legs, Arms

Vincent van Gogh, Ronald Pickvance (1984). “Van Gogh in Arles”, p.29, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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In terms of America, I think any profound consideration is bound to return us to the notion of twins because, though you certainly can contend there are many Americas, our history has been binary from the beginning, with its hairline fracture down the country's center between what American has wanted to be and what America has been. That fracture is slavery, of course. To some extent it's still slavery, in that collectively we refuse to come to grips with the American fact of slavery.

Steve Erickson

Country, Thinking, America

Source: therumpus.net

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Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.

Jeffrey Kluger

Football, Jobs, Skulls

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Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

Anthony Hopkins

Kids, Names, Actors

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We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

Roxane Gay

Women, Believe, Collective Effort

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Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?

Daniel Berrigan

Peace, Children, War

"The activist who saved my life, and other contrarians" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2016.

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What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career, that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

Andrew Bogut

Strong, Stress, Nba

"Andrew Bogut Calls Those Who Can’t Understand His Poor Injury Luck ‘Pretty Uneducated’". sports.yahoo.com. March 27, 2012.

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How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.

Robert Penn Warren

Jewels, Ruffles, Steel

Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Japan, Europe, Usa

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Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.

G. K. Butterfield

Football, Player, Skulls

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I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

Khaled Hosseini

Cancer, Pneumonia, Blood

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The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult to understand. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

Lisa Kleypas

Soulmate, Men, Two

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As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the cause of an estimated 1.5 million fractures annually.

Lois Capps

Osteoporosis, May, Causes

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Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.

Howard Schultz

Country, People, Connections

"Coffee talk: Katie Couric interviews Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz tonight". Interview with Katie Couric, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 8, 2008.

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For example, in Vitamin K, the clotting proteins get it first... and
only after they're satisfied do you prevent calcification of the arteries,
or prevent cancer, or prevent bone fractures. It's all insidious damage
that you get that's a long term consequence. In fact, we call these the
diseases of aging.

Bruce Ames

Cancer, Long, Example

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She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

Khaled Hosseini

Powerful, Down And, Sometimes

Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing

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Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly? The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse. Rose Tyler: So?

Russell T Davies

Doctors, Two, Rose

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I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not oppose such movements at all. No, he yields to them. But he does much more than yield to them. He aids them with a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder, to fracture his own arm, or in a desparate case, even to break his own neck or back.

Lafcadio Hearn

Yield, Wicked, Experts

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I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

Bill Walton

Basketball, Sports, Stress

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The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all.

Eduard Suess

Life, Science, Mountain Ranges

Eduard Suess (1904). “The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)”

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