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• I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.

  Michael Moore

  Nice, School, Slave Owners

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• Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Horse, Crazy

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• I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

  Anne Lamott

  Fire, Media, Gossip

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• I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.

  Kamala Harris

  Smart, Thinking, Mind

  "Kamala Harris: Power Prosecutor". Interview with Dana Perino, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 14, 2011.

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• For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

  George Gissing

  Courage, Men, Blood

  George Gissing (1909). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”

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• If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, Redneck

  Interview with Paul Harris, www.harrisonline.com. May 30, 1996.

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• I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'

  Harrison Ford

  Thoughtful, Mind, Pockets

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

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• Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

  Idris Elba

  Shapes, Youth

  "The Midas touch". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2009.

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• Whether you're reaching for one of your favorite cookbooks or just winging it, do your best to keep a well-stocked arsenal of healthy ingredients at your disposal. At the very least, you'll always be ready to whip up a green juice or smoothie.

  Kris Carr

  Healthy, Juice, Green

  "What’s in My Fridge?" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.

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• When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

  Truman Capote

  Self, Hands, Deck Of Cards

  1979 In Vogue, Dec. Collected in Music for Chameleons (1980), 'Music for Chameleons'.

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• For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Nonconformity, Displeasure

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• Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1957). “ATLAS SHRUGGED”

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• Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Teacher, Stars

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• What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

  Ayn Rand

  Knees, Worship, Shame

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.50, Xist Publishing

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• I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Ideas, Want, Walking

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1867, Dell

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• I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Happiness, Smart, Make You Happy

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Moving, Accomplish Nothing, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my make-up be seen?' Are they going to whip me?' No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought?' Where is my freedom of speech?' My life, is it livable?' What's going on in the political prisons?

  Marjane Satrapi

  Long, House, Political

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• Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.

  Vera Nazarian

  Smart, Knowing, Cracks

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• At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then some Matthew McConaughey type either whips around the corner just in the nick of time to save her or is clumsily pulled down along with her. That event predictably leads to the magical moment of their first kiss. Please. I fall ALL the time. You know who comes and gets me? The bouncer.

  Chelsea Handler

  Love, Fall, Kissing

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.181, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.

  Starhawk

  Dark, Moon, Fire

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• Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hair, Knives, Bridges

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• He was in his chair in the corner, resting a second before he came out for the next round -- in a long line of next rounds. The thing he was fighting, you couldn't whip it for good. All you could do was keep on whipping it, till you couldn't come out anymore and somebody else had to take your place.

  Ken Kesey

  Fighting, Long, Lines

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.284, Penguin

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• Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

  Roald Dahl

  Night, Eggs, Stolen

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• Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ties, Debtors, Owing A Debt

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.40, 谷月社

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