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• You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over 70 are constantly being raped.

  John Rabe

  Bamboo, Body, Breathe

  John Rabe (2007). “The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe”, p.208, Vintage

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• He did not feel the ground under his feet - he thrust himself into the capriole, rose high in the air-forelegs and hind legs horizontal. He soared above the ground, he head in jubilation. Conquering!

  Felix Salten

  Air, Feet, Rose

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• Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

  Georges Bernanos

  Insanity, Savages, Anticipation

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• Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always be 'nice' to you. Nice gets you a C+ in life. We don't always smile, talk in a soft voice, or engage in indiscriminate hugs. In the loving struggle between the sexes we thrust and parry.

  Sam Keen

  Sex, Nice, Struggle

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• A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the warning will be to not panic if there is an emergency. To listen to directions. Now that's a waste. They could have given you information, but you can see their expectation that you're going to screw up.

  Amanda Ripley

  Expectations, Panic, Waste

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• But whatever the consensus on the EMH, I know of no serious academic, professional money manager, trained security analyst, or intelligent individual investor who would disagree with the thrust of EMH: The stock market itself is a demanding taskmaster. It sets a high hurdle that few investors can leap.

  John C. Bogle

  Intelligent, Investing, Serious

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• Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.

  William Butler Yeats

  Karma, Men, Race

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

  Olympia Snowe

  Leadership, Determination, President

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• It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Wise, Sight, Soul

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and having been the writer, I can say from experience - the writer is lower down on the food chain.

  Matt Damon

  Writing, Play, Theatre

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.

  Mike Myers

  Laid Back, Different, Toronto

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

  Julian Ovenden

  Cutting, Rejection, Everyday

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• So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.

  John Piper

  Taken, Heart, Sunday

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• I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.

  Panda Bear

  Strong, Emotional, Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Only Experience Teaches You: You can't learn skiing by watching videos. They might help but you still need to find a place with snow, put your skis on, and thrust yourself down the mountain.

  Barry Moltz

  Snow, Mountain, Needs

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• There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

  Christopher Morley

  Truth, Men, People

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Enemy, Tragedy

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The main thrust of the Social Security reform was to get the benefit structure in line with the realities of the Trust Funds.

  George W. Bush

  Reality, Reform, Benefits

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Liftoff is very, very gentle, contrary to what most people think. Because you remember, the weight of the booster - the amount of thrust on the engine is just barely enough to get the booster underway. And so it's a very gentle liftoff, contrary to what most people think when they see all the fire and smoke of launch.

  John Glenn

  Thinking, Fire, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You know, we love to categorise or label everything in our lives: people, movies. But I think that those are just the decorations. They, of course, work. They're great, but that's not the thrust of the film.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Thinking, People, Labels

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• Where there's a chase or whatever, it's not being thrust into it.

  Hrithik Roshan

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• There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Simple, Giving, Perception

  Source: progressive.org

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• Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.

  Brandon Mull

  Growing Up, Mistake, Choices

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• My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.

  Aimee Friedman

  Mom, Ocean, Marine

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• Dexter thrust a pamphlet into Samuel's hand. "Greenstreet Mission. We're doing a Christmas dinner. You can get a meal and hear the word of God." Samuel smiled in relief. This, finally, he understood. "Which word?" "What?" "Well, God's said a lot of words, you know, and a word like 'it' or 'the' wouldn't be worth hearing again but its always fun listening to Him try and say aluminum.

  Tanya Huff

  Fun, Hands, Listening

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