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• Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

  Joss Whedon

  Baby, Half, Weight

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight". Comic Book Series by Joss Whedon, 2007 - 2011.

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• Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Pain, Business, Doubt

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• When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.

  Marge Piercy

  Best Love, Chocolate, Milk

  Marge Piercy (2012). “Vida”, p.114, PM Press

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• The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Attitude, Would Be

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

  Robert Burns

  Wise, Son, Fool

  Robert Burns, Mr. Thomson (George) (1809). “Poems formerly published, with some additions,and a history of these poems, by Gilbert Burns”, p.113

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• He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled on a photograph of his wife with his dying hand goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

  Flann O'Brien

  Goodbye, Suicidal, Home

  "Myles before Myles: a selection of the earlier writings of Brian O'Nolan".

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• Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.

  Vaclav Havel

  Memories, Party, Adventure

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 4: "Public Enemy", 1990.

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• Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

  Tim Birkhead

  Thinking, Brain, Tissues

  Tim Birkhead (2012). “Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird”, p.13, A&C Black

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• One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

  Richard Gregory

  Understanding, Brain, Porridge

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• Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Basketball, Jobs

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• The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  School, Boards, Roles

  Edward Alsworth Ross (2009). “Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order”, p.168, Transaction Publishers

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• I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants

  Dave Beard

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Thou lump of foul deformity!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Deformity, Foul

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.161, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I felt a lump in my throat as the ball went in.

  Terry Venables

  Football, Balls, Throat

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• The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy to think of children as lumps of putty to be shaped instead of partners in a human relationship.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Teaching, Taken

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.594, Penguin UK

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• I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Self, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Drawing, Grace

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• Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Past, Long

  D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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• Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.

  Barbara Johnson

  Pain, Kids, Necks

  Barbara Johnson (1996). “The Best of Barbara Johnson: Three Bestselling Works Complete in One Volume”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

  Maggie Smith

  Thinking, Years, Wind

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• A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.

  Roseanne Barr

  Men, Guy, Good Man

  "Roseanne". Comedy, 2018.

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• It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it

  Christopher Meloni

  Cutting, Catholic, Guilt

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• My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm a mean-spirited narrow-minded right-wing, conservative Christian ... I start out with that, and if you don't like it, you can lump it. I am not politically correct.

  Jane Russell

  Christian, Country, Father

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• At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadn't cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently, however much he tried to hold it down. He bit down on his hand to stop the feeling, to replace it with pain. It didn't help.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Army, Hands

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.251, Macmillan

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• The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.

  Vannevar Bush

  Cameras, Littles, Hounds

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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