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• You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Long, Razors

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.305, Random House

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• Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.

  Roger Zelazny

  Philosophical, Writing, Smoking

  Roger Zelazny (2000). “The Hand of Oberon”, G K Hall & Company

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• Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really know-that the emptinessis as much as inside you as outside you.For it falls out,that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it;but being lacked and lost,why,then we rack the value,then we find the virtue that possesion would not show us while it was ours.That's when I knew for the first time that I really did love my sister.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Fall, Thinking, Care

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• For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Virtue, Lost

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1486, Oxford University Press

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• For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror.

  Jens Peter Jacobsen

  Dream, Mind, Suffering

  Jens Peter Jacobsen (2008). “Niels Lyhne”, p.45, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• BLACKBERRY. Also know as "Crackberry" for it's addictive qualities. It is the modern girl's weapon. It allow her to bid on ebay while walking down the street, map out her shopping route for maximum productivity, and sneak out of work and still get her messages as she peruses the sales racks.

  Nina Garcia

  Girl, Ebay, Shopping

  Nina Garcia (2009). “The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from his lips. 'What's impressed you most since you arrived here?' I rack my brain for something that made me happy here. Be honest, I think. Be honest.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Thinking, Brain

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.122, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Spending, Careful

  "Interview: Madonna reviews life". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. January 19, 1999.

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• Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about a bit of retouching on their forthcoming film poster?

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Cities, Two

  "Why Photoshop is a feminist's best friend". www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2008.

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• We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor
  by giving each other motorized tie racks.

  Bill McKibben

  Christmas, Ties, Giving

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• Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

  Edgar Wallace

  Fear, Snakes, Tyrants

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• That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Water

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 12, l. 9

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Men, Race

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but physically upset. When you think of all the subtleties that were built into the guitar and amps for you to discover they completely cover the whole lot with a rack of effects. The guitar doesn't need that.

  Jeff Beck

  Thinking, Guitar, Upset

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• Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

  James Connolly

  Home, Orange, Sweatshops

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• The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

  Adora Svitak

  Juniors, Matter, Messages

  "Would You Buy This for Your Daughter?" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2011.

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• Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

  Tom Clancy

  Sex, Taken, Mean

  "Executive Orders". Book by Tom Clancy, p. 613, 1996.

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• As a golfer, you feel like you're perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it's very difficult.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Like You, Golfers, Difficult

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• I definitely feel like it took me a while to learn the baseline things you have to do if you want people to hear you. That's why I've had the same haircut for the entire time that I've been on television and that's why I wear literally the same jacket every day. I keep all the clothes I wear on TV in my office on a little hanging rack. My girlfriend calls it all the colors of the German rainbow. Grays, blacks, a slightly greenish gray for the days that I'm feeling particularly festive. I'm not trying to accomplish anything in the way I look other than to be boring enough for people to hear me.

  Rachel Maddow

  Girlfriend, Color, Clothes

  Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

  Mark Udall

  Climbing, Hiking, Gears

  "Support Net Neutrality to Preserve a Free and Democratic Internet" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

  Walt Whitman

  Sailing, Done, Leaves Of Grass

  "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)

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• A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.

  Michael Kors

  Men, Shining, Guy

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com. June 23, 2009.

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• Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Desert, Human Nature

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.190, Wordsworth Editions

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• When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Nashville, Tennessee

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• Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Boredom, Office, Long

  Tom Hodgkinson (2011). “Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself”, p.16, Penguin UK

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