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• I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.

  Bette Midler

  War, Thinking, Two

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• Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality.

  Edward Said

  Suicidal, Men, Ahab

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I always know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't feel torn and I think that is really important.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Thinking, Important, Feels

  "Reality TV Star and Author Bethenny Frankel: On Love, Life, and Yoga". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.awaken.com. February 3, 2016.

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• The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed yet dispassionate, ready to stand alone, curious, eager, skeptical. The banner of critical independence, ragged and torn though it may be, is still the best we have.

  Irving Howe

  Intellectual, Independence, Mind

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I feel most myself when I'm reading, but by that I don't mean that I'm most comfortable when I'm reading. I feel most fully a person who's torn between attention and inattention, between loving and hating, between hyper-responsiveness and total dullness. Reading is not a comfortable experience for me.

  Dan Chiasson

  Hate, Reading, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm bored to tears by how many clowns have been leaders. That's why it's important to be the best we can be within our own little lives. This divine comic tragedy just keeps getting darker and darker. It's a pattern. What goes up comes down and what comes down goes up. When the wall is finished being built, someday it will get torn down. And then someday it will be built back up again.

  Teri Gender Bender

  Wall, Bored, Leader

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was always torn between wanting whatever I pictured as a typical high school experience and that being just a part I wanted to play. I've written about this, but one of those typical high school experiences was drill team. Like, I just really wanted to wear a uniform and get on the bus and be part of this group. As an only child, the idea of blending in - and literally everyone being in sync and not standing out at all - felt like kind of a fun family thing.

  Lauren Graham

  Fun, Children, Team

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now), journalism remains pretty much what it was prior to November 8th of last year: personalities built up only to be torn down; fads and novelties discovered, celebrated, then mocked; "extraordinary" stories of ordinary people granted 15 seconds of fame only to once again be consigned to oblivion - all served with a side dish of that day's quota of suffering, devastation, and carnage. These remain journalism's stock-in-trade.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Determination, Military, People

  "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.

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• A good writer can simulate a page torn out of somebody's diary, and give you every little voyeuristic thrill you might get from that, but actually tell you a broader story. I think it's a noble idea that it's cathartic to open a vein for everybody to see, but ultimately, you're just getting blood everywhere and making a mess. I like the idea that there are deeper and more meaningful things to talk about than your own misery. But at the same time, there's something really interesting about skirting that line and making it seem like you're doing that.

  Will Sheff

  Meaningful, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Rip Torn had, like, lessons in everything he said, and one of them was, "I know that an actor can undermine anything a director tells him to do by making fun of it." And he thought that that's what I did.

  John Heard

  Fun, Rip

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• Rip Torn thought I was being a wise guy, and one afternoon he got pretty angry with me after telling me to do something and he thought I was pretending like I didn't know what he meant.But he was very frustrated. He was very frustrated as a director in trying to get his little theater group going. It was called The Sanctuary Theater Workshop, I think, and he wanted to do these classical plays by people like August Strindberg, and he was fighting hard to get his show up and be good and be professional.

  John Heard

  Wise, Rip, Fighting

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• We all acknowledge there are some things that need to be torn down and removed, but it seems to me that a leader who removes something must be able to recognize the necessity of replacing it with something that is effective and sustainable - so you don't just tear down, you have to build up.

  James Robison

  Leader, Tears, Needs

  Source: stream.org

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• There is Pakistan's relationship with Afghanistan which will also be a very tricky issue in the coming years. Then there is a large part of Pakistan which is being torn apart from American drone attacks. The country is being invaded constantly by a terrorist superpower. Again, this is not a small problem.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Small Problems, Years

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We're facing a very turbulent, war-torn, drought-ridden existence for future generations unless we act now.

  Nikki Reed

  War, Perception, Generations

  "19 VIPs Who Get Climate Change Better Than Congress" by Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2015.

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• [Donald Trump] has said that very consistently [about border], the contrast with Hillary Clinton, who supports amnesty, open borders, who wants to implement executive amnesty again on day one, even though the Supreme Court of the United States rejected it, and Hillary Clinton, who wants to increase refugees from the terrorist-torn country of Syria by 550 percent.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Support, Amnesty

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  May, Pieces, Ethics

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• Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?

  Olaudah Equiano

  Country, Luxury, Feelings

  Olaudah Equiano (1967). “Annotated The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa, The African with English Grammar Exercises: by Olaudah Equiano (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.34, Powell Publications, LLC

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• In Chicago, they've had thousands of shootings, thousands since January 1st [2016]. Is this a war-torn country? What are we doing? And we have to stop the violence.

  Donald Trump

  Country, War, Chicago

  Source: time.com

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• We can't stand any more! We don't want any more of what we've had to put up with for eight years and many years prior. The country we know and love is being torn apart and rebuilt in ways that we don't want, and the Republican Party doesn't even seem to care about that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Party, Love Is

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• All these people that you meet or I meet, there's not a prayer in hell that they're ever going to run for office or major office because if they're that smart, they're also smart enough to know they don't want to take everything that they've built up and have it torn apart by a sensationalized media that's so hungry for any kind of salacious detail that they'll make that the emphasis of the person's life. And then all of sudden, 50, 60 years of hard work and accomplishment go out the window.

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Prayer, Smart

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.

  Henry Giroux

  Space, Torn Apart, Retreat

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

  John James Ingalls

  Flower, Blood, Battle

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• In passing around the holy aged house (Kaa'bah), and crossing the Safa and Marwa lanes, in prayer inside the Ka'bah, in bowing and prostration, Kuwait was a prayer throbbed in my heart and uttered by my tongue.. Praying for God to protect us from the evils of ourselves and our bad deeds, Praying for God to keep blessing the people of Kuwait with the grace of unity, not to be torn by a difference, and the grace of love not to be destroyed by disputes, and the grace of progress not to be hampered by prejudices.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Prayer, Heart, Blessing

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• My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.

  Tupac Shakur

  Order, Law, Dorms

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• I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

  Michael Chang

  Doctors, Littles, Months

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