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• Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

  Gaston Bachelard

  Stories, Clamor, Single Word

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• It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was guilty of the greater sin; I knew what was right, and I chose to reject it.

  Tarek Saab

  Sin, Guilty, Vacuous

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• How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dark, Men, Skins

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

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• Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

  John F. Kennedy

  Law, Community, Shadow

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Long, Pages

  JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH (1962). “THE GREAT CRASH 1929”

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• What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Cells, Nuts, Doe

  John Greenleaf WHITTIER (1860). “Home Ballads and Poems”, p.144

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• There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

  Anton Chekhov

  Numbers, People, Trying

  "The Man in a Case". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stupid, Mistake, Age

  Letter to E. M. Savrova-Yust, February 28, 1895.

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• Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

  Horace Mann

  God, Religious, Taken

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.13

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• I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Nba, Play, Eggs

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• For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.

  Joy Williams

  Beautiful, Song, Eye

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.123, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence.  If our faith does not throw us into the arms of the world, if it does not lead to our experience of responsibility, love, celebration, and our commitment to transformation, then, whatever we call it, we have nothing but an empty shell.

  Peter Rollins

  Commitment, Responsibility, Doe

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• The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Ego, Hardest, Hardest Thing

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.11, Souvenir Press

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• The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.172

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• In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is.

  Francis Quarles

  Fashion, Soul, Too Late

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.47

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• I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

  W. C. Fields

  Games, United States, Towns

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• I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.

  Lady Gaga

  Music, Crazy, School

  "Lady Gaga's most revealing interview yet" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2014.

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• What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women?

  Winona LaDuke

  Zinc, Land, Giving

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• ... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.

  David W. Orr

  Moving, Air, Law

  David W. Orr (2011). “Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr”, p.113, Island Press

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• When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

  Harry S. Truman

  Sweet, Mistake, Feet

  Letter to Bess Wallace, en.wikiquote.org. September 8, 1918.

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• Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don't mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I'm talking about the wing of a dragonfly. The tale of the shoeshine. Walking through an unsullied hour with an unsullied heart

  Amor Towles

  Mean, Heart, Night

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.202, Penguin

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• I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Holiday, Thinking, Water

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

  Eric Burdon

  Air, Nuts, Touring

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• People love buying into a lifestyle and an overall concept. So when they buy a shell-colored lip gloss, they can also buy shells for their house, as well as sunglasses and [items in] other categories [in that shade] to create one consistent image.

  Aerin Lauder

  People, House, Shade

  Source: aspenpeak-magazine.com

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• I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

  Sappho

  Music, Tortoises, Instruments

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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