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• You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

  Terence McKenna

  Religious, Clothes, Prejudice

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• 0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, Dream, Years

  'America the Beautiful' (1893)

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• Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Song, Fall, Night

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• If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Blood, Dueling, Would Be

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.44

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• Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Fashion, Thinking, Would Be

  "John Kenneth Galbraith: Free Market Fraud' by John Kenneth Galbraith, progressive.org. April 12, 2006.

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• When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Tears, And Love

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.138

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• The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Lying, Secret

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• You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.

  Coco Chanel

  Health, Light, Nightlife

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• Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

  Virginia Woolf

  Real, Character, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2017). “Moments Of Being”, p.100, Random House

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• Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

  Alexander Pope

  Reality, Growth, Finding Yourself

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• Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

  William Jennings Bryan

  War, Blood, Sometimes

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, War, Men

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.204

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• Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.

  Philip James Bailey

  Eye, Heart, Tears

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.132

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• Light may be shed on man and his origins.

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Men, Light

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• Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hero, Men, Light

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.

  Mark Nepo

  Thinking, Two, Broken

  "Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Bread of the world, in mercy broken,
  Wine of the soul, in mercy shed,
  By whom the words of life were spoken,
  And in whose death our sins are dead:
  Look on the heart by sorrow broken,
  Look on the tears by sinners shed;
  And be Thy feast to us the token
  That by Thy grace our souls are fed.

  Reginald Heber

  Heart, Wine, Broken

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber (1834). “The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.26

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• I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins.

  Rita Dove

  Jobs, Drinking, Water

  Rita Dove (1985). “Fifth Sunday: stories”, Callaloo Poetry Series

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• One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.

  Djuna Barnes

  Pain, Eye, Men

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

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• Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.

  Florinda Donner

  Long, Cost, Fit

  Florinda Donner (1991). “Being-in-dreaming”, Harpercollins

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• We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling. 'New atheists' and reductive materialists conduct gladiatorial debates against defenders of faith and enemies of reductionism. Lots of heat is produced, but, alas, little light is shed. How marvelous it is, then, to see this fine new book by Lenn E. Goodman and Gregory Caramenico. Here is a learned, illuminating, and decidedly non-polemical treatment of the classic questions of soul, mind, and brain-an exemplary work of scholarship.

  Robert P. George

  Atheist, Memories, Book

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• I know thou art gone to the home of thy rest--
  Then why should my soul be so sad?
  I know thou art gone where the weary are blest,
  And the mourner looks up, and is glad;
  I know thou hast drank of the Lethe that flows
  In a land where they do not forget,
  That sheds over memory only repose,
  And takes from it only regret.

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Death, Art, Memories

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• For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.

  Katie Ashley

  Grief, Suffering, Tears

  Katie Ashley (2014). “Music of the Heart”, p.220, Katie Ashley

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• Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  East, World, Tongue

  Bahá'u'lláh (0101). “Prayers and Meditations”, p.160, Prabhat Prakashan

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• God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.

  James Dobson

  Heart, Names, Tears

  James C. Dobson (2012). “When God Doesn't Make Sense”, p.198, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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