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• Bonjour to all the beautiful people of Montreal because this is like home to me. We had Sugar Ray Leonard here who changed the globe and took on Roberto Duran right here in Montreal. How did we get to Montreal? Because it's one of the fairest cities in the world. We were looking for a neutral site and we picked Montreal. Sugar Ray Leonard came in and Roberto Duran beat him - because we got our fair shake in Montreal.

  Don King

  Beautiful, Home, Cities

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• It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Speaks Out, Singing

  "Barack Obama address on civil rights in Selma, Alabama - full text", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2015.

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• I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Writing, Love Is, Found

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• The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

  Horace

  Passion, Men, Tyrants

  'Odes' bk. 3, no. 3, l. 1

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• The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Frustration, Technology

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• What is the quality of your intent? Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Respect, Impact, People

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• He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its majesty to shake off oppression. It was a more powerful myth than his, for after his fall it was this, and not his memory, which inspired the revolutions of the nineteenth century, even in his own country.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Dream, Country, Memories

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• When you question a man's motives, when you say they are acting out of greed, they are in the pocket of an interest group, et cetera. It's awful hard to reach consensus. It's awful hard to reach across the table and shake hands. No matter how bitterly you disagree, though, it is always possible if you question judgment and not motive.

  Joe Biden

  Men, Hands, Greed

  "Best and worst of 2015 commencement address season". "The Five" with Eric Bolling, www.foxnews.com. May 18, 2015.

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• An "I know what I like" mentality is hard to shake, but of course appreciation has space for being challenged.

  Ryan Gander

  Appreciation, Space, Courses

  "Art-Advising in 3 Acts". Interview with Alexandra Pechman, www.vulture.com. December 19, 2014.

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• I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing I learned was: Never let go of the girl's leg, no matter how hard she tries to shake you off.

  Steve Martin

  Girl, Letting Go, Dog

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• Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Rights, Race

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3053, Library of Alexandria

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• There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Earthquakes, Ideas, Two

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• To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Men, Ideas

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• Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Delay, Path, Should

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings”, p.179, Shambhala Publications

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• My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Optimism, World, Way

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• My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation.

  Tim Allen

  Dad, Earthquakes, Foundation

  "Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man". Book by Tim Allen, September 20, 1994.

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• Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would just come up and say 'hello' before asking for an autograph. I wish they would just say, 'Hello, I'm so and so, and I just want to shake your hand.' I'm impressed when I find people like that. Most people just say, 'Sign here,' and treat you like a statue.

  Eddy Arnold

  Song, Hands, People

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• I remember it as if it were today... seeing him [Che] framed in the viewfinder, with that expression. I am still startled by the impact... it shakes me so powerfully. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)

  Alberto Korda

  Impact, Expression, Today

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• I'm a very physical person. I hug people, more so than shake hands.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Hands, People, Hug

  Source: collider.com

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• Some ladies got the shower massager. Oh, man, you better buy her a diamond 'cause if she got a shower massager, she don't really need you anymore. That shower massager makes a woman shake like a car on bad gas going up a hill.

  Jay Mohr

  Men, Car, Causes

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• I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.

  Ben Webster

  Kings, Play, Two

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• No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating our present from the photographs retire into the transparence of the shot and seem erased by it. We almost have to shake ourselves to overcome the feeling that we peer out at the other place, in that different age. Yet we are always aware of this illusory dislocation, for such is the ambiguity, in principle, that seduces us over and over again in the photographic experience.

  Max Kozloff

  Years, Feelings, Age

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• Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Giving, Selfless

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle to our allegedly preordained destiny out there among the stars, all that means is that they have a single story wedged into their imagination so tightly that mere reality can't shake it loose.

  John Michael Greer

  Stars, Mean, Reality

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• Once you shake hands with the devil, you have to accept they are in control.

  Alex Ferguson

  Hands, Devil, Accepting

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