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• After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive.

  David Levithan

  Reflection, Lakes, Swings

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.93, Penguin

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• They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.

  Suzanne Collins

  Want, Arms, Lost

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.389, Scholastic Inc.

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• Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Strong, Real, Heart

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• No one realized that the pumps that delivered fuel to the emergency generators were electric.

  Angel Feliciano

  Fuel, Emergencies, Electric

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• You can do all them push-ups to pump up your chest,
  I got a 12 gauge Mossberg to pump up your chest,
  Have you gasping for air after that shell hit your vest.
  Fear me like you fear God, 'cause I bring death.

  Curtis Jackson

  Rap, Air, Hip Hop

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• I have no weakness for shoes. I wear very simple shoes which are pump shoes. It is not one of my weaknesses.

  Imelda Marcos

  Simple, Shoes, Weakness

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• Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important. But trailer driver's know: a gas stop can be a traumatic experience. You need enough clearance on every possible side. You can't cut the turn too sharp or you'll clip the gas pump. Getting back on the freeway can be as challenging as sending a man to the moon.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Cutting, Moon, Men

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• [The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Lying, Artist

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.189, Harvard University Press

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• I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Talking, Atmosphere

  "Carbon Chastity: The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment" by Charles Krauthammer, jewishworldreview.com. May 30, 2008.

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• So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.

  Philip K. Dick

  Heart, White, Dying

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Running, Air, Class

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• Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Please Me, Oil, America

  "MIDDLE EAST: The Arab World: Oil, Power, Violence". content.time.com. April 2, 1973.

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• It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

  Henry Reed

  Believe, Simple, Hell

  'Chard Whitlow (Mr Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript)' (1946)

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