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• When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Fire

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• It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].

  Richard Simmons

  Dream, Growing Up, Teaching

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• Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Past, Government

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• There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Wall, Law, Political

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• Take adultery or theft.
  Merely sins.
  It is evil who dines on the soul,
  stretching out its long bone tongue.
  It is evil who tweezers my heart,
  picking out its atomic worms.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Long, Evil

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.

  Franck Khalfoun

  Creating, Scary, Tension

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it is such a privilege to give a baby its first home inside your body. [After the pregnancy was over] I found myself massaging my stomach gently. I miss him being in my body -- stretching, hiccupping even. It was a wonderful, deep, loving, fulfilling feeling.

  Celine Dion

  Baby, Pregnancy, Home

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• We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Relation, Behinds

  Charles Dickens (1869). “Christmas Books”, p.258

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• So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.

  Emily Saliers

  Pain, Passion, Dust

  Don E. Saliers, Emily Saliers (2005). “A song to sing, a life to live: reflections on music as spiritual practice”, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

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• A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Children, Self, Democracy

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's message to Congress on Establishing Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours, May 24, 1937.

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• I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.

  Joan Collins

  Summer, Use It Or Lose It, Years

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• I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.

  Bryan Cranston

  Mean, Thinking, Dollars

  "Exclusive: Bryan Cranston Talks BREAKING BAD Season 3 and 4, TOTAL RECALL, DRIVE, ROCK OF AGES, LARRY CROWNE & LINCOLN LAWYER". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

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• Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.

  Will Self

  Childhood, Age, Peculiar

  "You're Looking Very Well by Lewis Wolpert - review" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2011.

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• In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Talking, Office

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• In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.

  Justin Cronin

  Eye, Army, Flames

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.105, Ballantine Books

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• The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Creativity, Exercise, Simple

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie." "Ominous." I nod my agreement. "It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Sight, Agreement, Eerie

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• Do I feel ancient to you now?" he murmered. "Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?" Her eyes were already glowing green, and her full lips parted. "No, you don't feel too ancient." Her voice was husky. "Or too different. You feel like mine. Whoever you were, whoever you are...you're mine." Mencheres smiled, his fangs stretching to their full length. "So you have spoken, so it shall be decreed. For all eternity.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Eye, Glowing, Voice

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• I yawned and stretched luxuriously in the morning. I make noises when I stretch because it feels ten times better than stretching silently.

  Kevin Hearne

  Morning, Noise, Feels

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.677, Del Rey

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• I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Feelings, Important, Proud

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.183, Melville House

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• It's a hard life, but it's the only life we have. And sometimes-' he pointed to a bright flash of lightening, its jagged light stretching from the sky to the ground, '-it's still beautiful. Sometimes you find something that makes this all worth it. And when you do, you hang onto it for as long as you can.' He turned to me, shrugging one shoulder. 'That's the best you can do.

  Amanda Hocking

  Beautiful, Light, Sky

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• We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.

  Patrick Ness

  Running, Army, Night

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• There was no escaping what he had realized as he fought for warmth in the night. With or without him,the moon and the wind would go on, rising and falling. The land would keep stretching ahead until it hit the sea. People would keep dying. It made no difference if Harold walked, or trembled, or stayed at home.

  Rachel Joyce

  Fall, Home, Moon

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• I was hoping they would put up flyers like they do for lost cats." He said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'hotstuff'." "You did not just say that." "You don't like 'hotstuff'? You think 'sweet cheeks' might be better? "Love crumpet'? Really? That last one's stretching it a bit. Though, technically my family is British-

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Teenage, Cat

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• Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Ambitious, Limited Resources, Fit

  "The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company". Book by Donald Soderquist (p. 178), April 21, 2005.

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