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• A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, People, Facts

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• It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

  Thomas Harris

  Benefits, Elbows, Starlings

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.99, Macmillan

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• Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.

  J.R. Ward

  Doors, Sometimes, Beats

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• And she was just leaving. (Xedrix) Not yet, I’m not. (Aimee) Yes, you are. Adios. There’s the door. Doorknob twists to the left. The hinges open in. You should use them. Keep them working. Keep you breathing. (Xedrix)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Doors, Breathing, Leaving

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.264, Macmillan

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• History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

  Joseph Heller

  Children, War, Men

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• The locker at the end of her bed had no lock, and one of the hinges was busted. She opened it up. There was a thing in it. The thing might have been a sandwich at some point, or an animal, or a human hand...but what it was now was fuzzy and putrid. A minute later, Ginny was down the stairs, out the door, and gone.

  Maureen Johnson

  Animal, Doors, Hands

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• The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Doe, Way, Realizing

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.

  Rolf Potts

  Country, Travel, Home

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• The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Reality, Law

  Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church. YouTube Channel "nicholasflyer"/"Martin Luther King Jr. 'Rediscovering Lost Values' February 28, 1954", www.youtube.com. September 24, 2015.

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• There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Song, Lost Love, Careful

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Feb 02, 2014

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• Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.

  Leon Uris

  Mistake, Two, Important

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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• Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Healing, Men

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• Luneta and her parents started and whirled around, to see Terence standing just inside Luneta's door. "Deuce it, Terence!" Luneta's father expostulated. "You'll kill someone that way someday! How did you get inside without any of us hearing you?" "I came in the door, of course," Terence replied, stepping forward. He held two swords in scabbards, which he tossed onto Luneta's bed as he approaced. "For anyone else, the hinges would have squeaked," Luneta's father muttered.

  Gerald Morris

  Father, Doors, Two

  Gerald Morris (2008). “The Lioness and Her Knight”, p.256, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Swings, Doors

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Blow, Air, Doors

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.305, Macmillan

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• This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.

  Robin Hobb

  Night, Men, Hands

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest”, p.1021, Del Rey

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• I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

  Mary Oliver

  Country, Song, Fall

  Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I'll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I'd sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Mean, Fate, Hands

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• Don't be stupid. You're a child. You don't know what it means to be in love." And she flung open the car door as if she wished she had the strength to rip it from the hinges, and stalked off to the house through the rain. That night, I lay in bed, troubled by what she'd said, blocking out the sounds of argument from my parents' room. Was love what my parents had? Yelling at eachother, worrying about money? Never smiling? Never happy? If that was love, then I didn't want it.

  Barry Lyga

  Children, Block, Rip

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Decision, May, Moments

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• What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Funny, Nature, Inspiration

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”

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• Jesus Christ's claim of divinity is the most serious claim anyone ever made. Everything about Christianity hinges on His carnation, crucifixion, and resurrection. That's what Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter are all about.

  Luis Palau

  Christian, Friday, Jesus

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• [Crisco] ain't just for frying. You ever get a sticky something stuck in your hair,like gum?...That's right, Crisco. Spread this on a baby's bottom, you won't even know what diaper rash is...shoot, I seen ladies rub it under they eyes and on they husband's scaly feet...Clean the goo from a price tag, take the squeak out a door hinge. Lights get cut off, stick a wick in it and burn it like a candle....And after all that, it'll still fry your chicken.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Baby, Husband, Eye

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• The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.

  John Mott

  Prayer, World, Missions

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• I do shop online! But I’m shopping online mostly in the home categories - One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So you know for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don’t really shop that much for clothing online.

  Nate Berkus

  Kings, Home, Shopping

  "Nate Berkus on Selling His Old Prada, Hermès, and More". Interview with Julie Ma, www.thecut.com. May 16, 2013.

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