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• Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

  William Golding

  Our World, Ideas, Three

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• In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Strong, Wicked, World

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.127, Mondial

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• To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.

  Alvin Toffler

  Impact, Anchors, Roots

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• The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop it, Kristy! You're overreacting! Let's talk about this." That was when she did the unthinkable. She rolled down the window, thrust out her hand, and gave Reverend Ethan Bonner the bird.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Hands, Space, Car

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• At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivation, School, Ideas

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• Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

  Joseph Heller

  Men, People, Three

  Catch-22 ch. 9 (1961)

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• My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.

  Dave Eggers

  Pain, Color, Wings

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• In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Cry, Partners

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

  Stephen King

  Fists, Ghost, Twister

  "It". www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Agency, Choices, Characteristics

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

  Robert Duvall

  Uncles, Men, Years

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• Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

  Josh Hartnett

  Hands, Tools, Kind

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• I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Trying, Actors

  Interview with Chelsea Handler, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.

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• I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

  Anne Hathaway

  Princess, Diaries, Film

  The Associated Press Interview, www.cbsnews.com. June 21, 2006.

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• Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

  Joseph Heller

  Success, Humorous, People

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• When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Jobs, White, House

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• I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

  Clive Owen

  Years, Limelight, Young

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• The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Fall, Men, Feet

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• Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

  Dan Savage

  Christmas, Real, Ideas

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.

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• So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

  Black Elk

  Earth, Red, Sticks

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Real, College, House

  "New Again: Sam Taylor-Johnson". Interview with David Furnish, Lauren Lieb, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2013.

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• With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring teeth through the crimson walls, rending them; the ravenous garden slavered over its prey and every brick was shown in the act of falling. Amid the violence of this transformation, the oblivion of the embrace went on. The awakened girl, in all her youthful loveliness, still clasped in the arms of a lover from whom all the flesh had fallen. He was a grinning skeleton.

  Angela Carter

  Girl, Wall, Flower

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• The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from. The act of metaphor than was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe or outside, lost.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Lying, Tunnels, Light

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• In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Pain, Hands, Opposites

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

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• Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping toward destruction. Therefore, everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Responsibility, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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