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• She went away, she cut me like a knife Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life In just a glance, down here on magic street Loves a fool's dance And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Beautiful, Cutting, Feet

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• It is common talk that every individual is entitled to economic security. The only animals and birds I know that have economic security are those that have been domesticated--and the economic security they have is controlled by the barbed-wire fence, the butcher's knife and the desire of others. They are milked, skinned, egged or eaten up by their protectors.

  Ray Lyman Wilbur

  Animal, Bird, Desire

  "Ray Lyman Wilbur". The Washington Post, June 28, 1949.

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• The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the darkAnd we may lose everything in the windBut the Northern Lights are burningAnd they're giving off sparks.

  Jim Steinman

  Cutting, Light, Giving

  Song: Bad For Good, Album: Bad for Good

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• And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

  Harry Chapin

  Cutting, Stories, Lips

  Song: Story of a Life, 1980

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• The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, "I see that none has passed here In a long time." Later he saw that each weed Was a singular knife. "Well," he mumbled at last, "Doubtless there are other roads.

  Stephen Crane

  Weed, Truth, Long

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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• Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

  PZ Myers

  Art, Cabinets, Obsidian

  "Atheism ≠ Fascism". freethoughtblogs.com. June 12, 2011.

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• Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

  Geri Halliwell

  Cutting, Rolling, Lips

  Song: Passion, Album: Passion, 2005

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• An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

  J. Milton Hayes

  Heart, Yellow, Mad

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• If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

  Robert Jordan

  Horse, Trying, Ribs

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.607, Macmillan

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• Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  New York, July, Cities

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2009.

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• Cut that in Three, which Nature hath made One , Then strengthen hyt, even by it self alone, Wherewith then Cutte the poudred Sonne in twayne, By length of tyme, and heale the woonde againe. The self same Sunne twys yet more, ye must wounde, Still with new Knives, of the same kinde, and grounde; Our Monas trewe thus use by natures Law, Both binde and lewse, only with rype and rawe, And ay thanke God who only is our Guyde, All is ynugh, no more then at this Tyde.

  John Dee

  Cutting, Self, Law

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• I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Art, Building Up, Want

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• To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Madness, Indulge, Knows

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.96, The Overlook Press

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• the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies and laying bare the truth.

  Hans Fritzsche

  Lying, Cutting, Tissues

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• My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

  David Lange

  Scar, Slips

  "A Dictionary of New Zealand Political Quotations", (p. 96), 2000.

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• I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

  Stevie Smith

  Food, Vegetables, Cooking

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• Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Character, Successful, Important

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• Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Gossip, Potatoes, Asparagus

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• First try all other means, but if the wound
  Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
  From the diseased the canker spread.

  Ovid

  Mean, Trying, Use

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• Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.

  David Letterman

  Cutting, Tomorrow, Election

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• ... the running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort?

  Mimi Pond

  Running, Army, Shoes

  Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

  Patti LaBelle

  Anger, Long, Blades

  Patti LaBelle, Laura Randolph Lancaster (2001). “Patti's Pearls: Lessons in Living Genuinely, Joyfully, Generously”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

  Conrad Aiken

  Life, Song, Thirsty

  Conrad Potter Aiken, “Youth Imperturbable”

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Blow, Decision, Weakness

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.

  Oswald Spengler

  Men, Soul, Would Be

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1932). “The Decline of the West”

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