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• As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.

  Kirk Cameron

  Country, Sinking Feeling, America

  "Kirk Cameron speaks at CPAC" by Caitlin MvDevitt, www.politico.com. February 9, 2012.

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• My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Giving Up, Keys, Race

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Sarcastic, Memorable, Pushing

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• Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.

  Dan Jenkins

  Funny, Basketball, Lying

  Dan Jenkins (2015). “"YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!"”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Feelings, Ships, Loser

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• It's a little too late. I'm a little too gone. A little too tired of just hanging on.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Tired, Gone

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• A visitor to Niels Bohr's country cottage, noticing a horseshoe hanging on the wall, teasing the eminent scientist about this ancient superstition. "Can it be true that you, of all people, believe it will bring you luck?'
  'Of course not,' replied Bohr, 'but I understand it brings you luck whether you believe it or not.'

  Niels Bohr

  Country, Wall, Believe

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• A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'

  Niels Bohr

  Wall, Believe, Luck

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• In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow's fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.

  T. Harv Eker

  Change, Roots, Tree

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 27, 2012

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• There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Government, Two

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.239

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• Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Noses, Natural

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• I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Office, Nebraska

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• Seems like just yesterday, you were a part of me. I used to stand so tall, I used to be so strong; your arms around me tight, everything felt so right - unbreakable, like nothing could go wrong. Now I can't breathe. No, I can't sleep; I'm barely hanging on. Here I am, once again, I'm torn into pieces. Can't deny it, can't pretend, just thought you were the one. Broken up, deep inside, but you won't get to see the tears I cry.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Strong, Lost Love, Sleep

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• Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

  Tim Tharp

  Dream, Ocean, Kind

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.141, Scholastic UK

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• ...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes or lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, lets have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wall, Might, Stories

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• Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Giving Up, People, Sound

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.213, A&C Black

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• There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes. My makeup spills from the bathroom drawers, and there are different women for different lipsticks.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Makeup, Shoes, Clothes

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Fear, Future

  "The Building of the Ship" l. 378 (1849)

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• In 1998, in Laramie, Wyoming, two guys beat up Matthew Shepard and left him on the side of the road hanging on the fence to die. They killed him, because Matthew Shepard was gay. They killed him, because Matthew Shepard was gay? They killed him.

  Christopher Titus

  Gay, Two, Wyoming

  "Titus / Tommy's Not Gay". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Guitar, Cadillacs, Hillbilly

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• Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.

  Alice May

  Drinking, Poison, Resentment

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• If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Wall, Gun

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• If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Country, Heart

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world... That does not require economic sanctions...I think we've got to take the risk and give up economic sanctions while hanging on to the disarmament programme and allow the Iraqis to get on with rebuilding their country.

  Denis Halliday

  Country, Giving Up, Thinking

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• Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life Lesson, Competition, Winner

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.244, Thomas Nelson Inc

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