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• There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Light, Hands

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

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• A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Success, Men, House

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.245

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• My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Ideas, Advice, Training

  "Where Do New Ideas Come From?" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. January 1, 1996.

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• They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Blast

  1592-3 Margaret. Richard III, act1, sc.3, l.257-8.

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• The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

  Steven Moffat

  Enemy, Suspense, Comedy

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• In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Order, Firsts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.

  John Mortimer

  Thinking, Hands, Lawyer

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• When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
  The citizens burning to approve a wrong
  Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
  Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
  Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
  Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
  Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
  As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

  Horace

  Men, Hands, Tyrants

  Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.

  Joni Rodgers

  Book, Self, Tails

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• That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Twilight, Sunset

  Sonnet 73

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• The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.

  John of the Cross

  Journey, Soul, Saint

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• I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

  Wanda Jackson

  Animal, Rooms, Bears

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• If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

  James K. Polk

  Men, Hands, Political

  Polk, James K. (1910). “The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4”, p.264, Best Books on

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• In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Cancer, Shoulders

  "Elizabeth Edwards Battles Breast Cancer". "Dateline NBC" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. November 21, 2004.

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• Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.

  Avery Brooks

  Dream, People, Your Dreams

  Star Trek Magazine, Issue #1, September/October 2006.

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• Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

  Homer

  Laughter, Sky, Absurd

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.47, Homer

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• Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

  Gelett Burgess

  Friendship, Old Friends, Disillusionment

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.

  Freddie Mercury

  Love, Baby, Night

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• The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

  Eric Alterman

  Media, Empowering, United States

  Eric Alterman (2008). “What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News”, p.18, Basic Books

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• I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

  Billy Childish

  Rocks, Blue, Years

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• New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.

  Willow Bay

  Media, Challenges, Television

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• And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Heart, Names, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.41, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

  Herschel Walker

  Life Is, Knocked Down, Walkers

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• You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.

  Rumi

  Reality, Doors, Wings

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 18: "The Three Fish", p. 200, 1995.

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• The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.

  Allen Wheelis

  Science, Giving, Honest

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