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• We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.

  Raul Grijalva

  Country, Creating, Issues

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• She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound

  Shannon Hale

  Song, Heart, Sound

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• Some wedges are great but you can look like your feet are encased in cement.

  Victoria Beckham

  Feet, Looks, Like You

  "Victoria's Secrets". www.mirror.co.uk. February 3, 2012.

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• The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of the east in wedge-shaped formation, and the mist lifted in soft wreaths of sun-shot silver. Colour came back to the world. The grass glowed with a green so vivid that it seemed pulsing, like flame, from some hidden fire in the earth, the distant woods took on all the amazing deep crimsons and purples of their winter colouring, the banks were studded with their jewels of lichens and bright moss, and above the wet hedges shone with sun-shot orbs of light.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Winter, Fire, Light

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• [C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.

  Jack Parsons

  Freedom, Power, Hands

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• I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of my books with a wedge...Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.

  Alex Haley

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blow, Rocks, Splits

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Life, Sky, Trying

  Sue Monk Kidd (2014). “The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)”, p.212, Penguin

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• Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

  Aaron Allston

  Father, Hate, Doe

  Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey

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• Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.

  Eric Holder

  Allies, United States, Tools

  "Holder: Guantanamo Detainee Decision Soon". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. October 15, 2009.

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• I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge.

  Jen Lancaster

  Husband, Fighting, Thinking

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• If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?

  Ken Jennings

  Dog, Shelter, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Ken Jennings from Apr 19, 2012

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• A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

  Honore de Balzac

  Block, Believe, Men

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• In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

  Jonathan Swift

  Air, Age, May

  Jonathan Swift (2004). “A Modest Proposal and Other Prose”, p.61, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with their ministrations to their menfolk at home. Such contributions to the war effort were socially acceptable because they could be seen as an extension into the military sphere of the traditional female virtues of charity, nurture and needlework. Yet in reality what the women were doing represented the thin end of a far more radical wedge. Consciously or not, these female patriots were staking out a civic role for themselves. And many of them relished it.

  Linda Colley

  Military, War, Home

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• Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.

  Paul Ryan

  Party, Two, Issues

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• Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom. [...] Every bit as bad as liberals, "libertarian" political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry.

  Ilana Mercer

  Fighting, Gay, Blood

  "Beware of Liberals in Libertarian Drag". www.wnd.com. November 7, 2013.

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• There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks.

  Burne Hogarth

  Block, Eggs, Cylinders

  Burne Hogarth (1996). “Dynamic Figure Drawing”

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• If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of materialism and naturalism in the world of the mind. With the assistance of many friends I have developed a strategy for doing this. ... We call our strategy the "wedge."

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Reality, Challenges, Mind

  "Defeating Darwinism by opening minds" by Phillip E. Johnson, (pp. 91-92), 1997.

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• The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.

  Alice Cary

  Splits, Way, Action

  alice cary (1855). “poems”, p.336

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• Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Night, Men, Light

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• He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.

  George Herbert

  Fists

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.344

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• Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

  Candace Bushnell

  Patents, Prom, Bigs

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• Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.

  Amy Alcott

  Country, Golf, Hands

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• Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably.

  Walter Wangerin

  Marriage, Play, Keys

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