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• To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two loves, emotionally confused, the desire to fly an incurable disease eating out your life in the slow torture of frustration-she cannot be a simple, natural personality.

  Louise Thaden

  Children, Women, Confused

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.92, University of Arkansas Press

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• I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else

  Alan Ladd

  Stars, Fans, Pieces

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• I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

  Eric McCormack

  Fun, Regret, Father

  "What I know about women". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• I’m torn. I want an ‘R’ (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it.

  Emily Browning

  Girl, Ideas, Want

  "Emily Browning Says Steamy Scene With Jon Hamm Cut From ‘Sucker Punch’ To Ensure PG-13 Rating" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. March 23, 2011.

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• We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly. And we felt torn, torn for some word we could not find.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Eye, Miracle

  Ayn Rand (2015). “Anthem”, p.44, Xist Publishing

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• We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Mother, Lying, Science

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• In the City of God there will be a great thunder,
  Two brothers torn apart by Chaos,
  while the fortress endures,
  the great leader will succumb,
  The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

  Nostradamus

  Brother, War, Cities

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• Good news is not news. Bad news sells. Confrontation sells. And that's what the press is always looking for. I'm not bragging, but I have the highest job-approval rating of any public official in the city. And I've had it consistently. The approval rating for the police department is 70 percent. This notion that stop-and-frisk has torn the community apart is false.

  Raymond Kelly

  Community, Police, Bragging

  Source: playboysfw.kinja.com

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• The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Soul, May, Flesh

  Ebenezer Elliott, Edwin Elliott “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.

  Dave Bautista

  Tears, Pieces, Months

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

  Honore de Balzac

  Smile, Motherhood, Tears

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.171, The Floating Press

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• The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry.

  Sarah Fielding

  Eye, Mean, Wish

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (1754). “The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable”, p.33

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• I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

  Henry Rollins

  War, Tree, Wrapping Paper

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• Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Earthquakes, Soul, Magic

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• There's an amount of love that can never - no matter what - be taken away or torn apart, no matter the situation. There are certain people who you will always, always love.

  Selena Gomez

  Taken, People, Torn Apart

  "Exclusive Interview: Selena Gomez". Interview with Neha Gahdhi, www.seventeen.com. May 3, 2011.

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• How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don't talk about their joys, their problems, and the destruction of the country in literary diction.

  Hassan Blasim

  Country, Children, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

  Paul Fleischman

  Peace, Simple, Two

  Paul Fleischman (2012). “Ancient Path: Talks on Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka”, p.49, Pariyatti Publishing

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• I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative artist who often is necessarily at poetic odds with the literal facts.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Attitude, Artist, Odds

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• A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.

  Linda Colley

  War, Expansion, Torn Apart

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.53, Yale University Press

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• One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wisdom, Two, Torn Apart

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum (2007). “The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation”, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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• He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lying, Fighting, Cutting

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of Travel”, p.466

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• Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is more keen for the benefit of the slave than his own self, his heart would have melted out of the love for Allah and would have been torn to pieces out of thankfulness to Allah. Therefore if the pains of this world tire you, do not grieve. For it may be that Allah wishes to hear your voice by way of Dua'a. So pour out your desires in prostration and forget about it and know; that verily Allah does not forget it.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Pain, Heart, Grieving

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• Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Grief, Loss

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

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• Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.

  Margaret Visser

  Determination, Animal, Fire

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.

  Fay Weldon

  Dirty, Clothes, Redemption

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