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• I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

  Bernard Malamud

  Two, Sometimes, Metaphor

  1975 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space.

  Isabel Paterson

  Distance, Space, Long

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.31, Transaction Publishers

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• Teams use trust as currency. If it is in short supply, then the team is poor. If trust abounds, the members of the team have purchase power with each other to access each others’ gifts, talents, energy, creativity, and love. The development of trust then becomes a significant leadership strategy. Trust creates the load limits on the relationship bridges among team members

  Reggie McNeal

  Team, Creativity, Bridges

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• I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.

  Timothy Shriver

  Cousin, Uncles, Past

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• The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Jewels, Empires

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 121, 1982.

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• Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Brother, Hate

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.216, Delphi Classics

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• A lui la foi, a'   elle le doute, a'   elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

  Honore de Balzac

  Doubt, Suffering, Doe

  1831 La Recherche de l'absolu.

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• Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Running, Horse, Earning

  "Lalu to teach management at IIM-A". in.rediff.com. August 30, 2006.

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• I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.

  Alexander McQueen

  Believe, Mean, Identity

  "McQueen has designs on Africa for fall/winter 2000", www.cnn.com. May 15, 2000.

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• It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets.

  Bradley Wiggins

  Nice, House, Tvs

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• No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Cost Of Living, Community

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.3157, Madison & Adams Press

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• Don't be evil is a load of crap.

  Steve Jobs

  Evil, Crap

  "Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra Is ‘bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs (Update 2)" by John C Abell, www.wired.com. January 30, 2010.

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• Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife

  Joaquin Miller

  Brother, War, Heart

  Joaquin Miller (1872). “Joaquin: Et Al”, p.49

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• You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Work, Debt, Sixteen

  Song: Sixteen Tons

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• If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.

  Bill Withers

  Friendship, Bears, Share

  Song: Lean On Me, Album: Still Bill, 1972

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• It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "Night At The Museum - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In the deep jungles of Africa, a traveler was making a long trek. Coolies had been engaged from a tribe to carry the loads. The first day they marched rapidly and went far. The traveler had high hopes of a speedy journey. But the second morning these jungle tribesmen refused to move. For some strange reason they just sat and rested. On inquiry as to the reason for this strange behavior, the traveler was informed that they had gone too fast the first day, and that they were now waiting for their souls to catch up with their bodies.

  Lettie Cowman

  Morning, Moving, Journey

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• You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry

  Lalita Tademy

  Giving, Lord, Heavy

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• Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

  William Carlos Williams

  Perfect, Machines, May

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch.

  Georges Bernanos

  Men, Law, Birth Place

  "A Diary of My Times". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1938.

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• All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

  Kenneth Williams

  Men, Islands, Lovely

  "Kenneth Williams: secret loves behind the life of a tormented man" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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• The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Air, Average, Essence

  Speech at the Bombay Rotary Club on November 02, 1943. "Keynote: Excerpts from his speeches and chairman's statements to shareholders". Book by J. R. D Tata, 1986.

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• It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.

  Flora Thompson

  Country, Traffic, Heavy

  "Dashpers". Unfinished novel by Flora Thompson. Chapter Two: "A House is Built", 1942.

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• Usmanov has got loads of money - we know that from his wealth.

  Darren Gough

  Wealth, Knows

  "3pm's football funnies: How Fergie pulled off a corking champagne practical joke on the Man United press pack" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. May 05, 2013.

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• Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there;  Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Grief, Silence, Secret

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.63

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