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• Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

  Charles Studd

  Loneliness, Heart, Wish

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• The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing — it is a mask, a mask worn at all times, making identification or participation in economic and social life virtually impossible.

  Jean-Francois Cope

  Niqab, Veils, Body

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• British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Mean, Illustration, Expression

  Conor Cruise O'Brien (1994). “On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped by the surfaces they press upon, are landscapes themselves with their own worn channels and roving lines. They perhaps most closely resemble the patterns of ridge and swirl revealed when a tide has ebbed over flat sand

  Robert Macfarlane

  Feet, World, Lines

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• I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don't have style at all, so most companies are getting rich off clothes that look torn, clothes that look worn.

  Andre Benjamin

  Real, Thinking, Clothes

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• Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value... If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Expression, Needs

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• Fashion is a vampiric thing, it's the hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say, 'Oh, can I kiss you?' I say, 'No, thank you very much. That's why I've worn the hat. Goodbye.' I don't want to be kissed by all and sundry. I want to be kissed by the people I love.

  Isabella Blow

  Goodbye, Fashion, Kissing

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• Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

  Neil Postman

  Information, Entertainment, Commodity

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• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  C. S. Forester

  Hollywood, England, Emotion

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• For the most part, most people most often choose comfort - the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have.

  Peter McWilliams

  People, Choices, Risk

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• On occasion I have observed parents shopping to clothe a son about to enter missionary service. The new suits are fitted, the new shoes are laced, and shirts, socks, and ties are bought in quantity. I met one father who said to me, 'Brother Monson, I want you to meet my son.' Pride popped his buttons; the cost of the clothing emptied his wallet; love filled his heart. Tears filled my eyes when I noticed that his [the father's] suit was old, his shoes well worn; but he felt no deprivation. The glow on his face was a memory to cherish.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Brother, Memories, Father

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• The work ... was ... so blinding that I could scarcely see afterwards, and the difficulty was increased by the fact that my microscope was almost worn out, the screws being rusted with sweat from my hands and forehead, and my only remaining eye-piece being cracked... Fortunately invaluable oil-imraersion object-glass remained good.

  Ronald Ross

  Eye, Glasses, Hands

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• If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
  But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long:
  Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner.
  Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years;
  Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more;
  Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
  The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

  John Dryden

  Life, Fate, Autumn

  "Oedipus: A Tragedy".

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• We're worn into grooves by Time - by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second-rate or champions, each in his way, in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.

  Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

  Life, Peace, Achievement

  American Magazine, Vol. 103, (p. 183), 1927.

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• If the shoe fits, it is probably worn out.

  Craig Reucassel

  Shoes, Boots, Fit

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• I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. ... I didn't think it would be like this

  Jean Rhys

  Eye, Thinking, Hair

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• During a panic attack, I remember that today is just today and that is all that it is. I take a deep breath in and I realize that in this moment I am fine and everything is okay. More importantly, I am reminded that my A.P.C. jeans are so perfectly worn in that they are appropriate for any season and I am suddenly at ease.

  Max Greenfield

  Jeans, Panic, Today

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion, Grieving, People

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• Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

  John Lydon

  Laughing, Oscars, Able

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.

  Jeff Lynne

  Song, Littles, Kind

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• Worn out places, worn out faces.

  Gary Jules

  Faces, Mad World, Worn Out

  Song: Mad World {From Donnie Darko}, Album: Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets, 2006

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• I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

  Edward VII

  Fashion, Morning, Views

  To Sir Frederick Ponsonby, who had proposed to accompany him in a tail-coat, in Sir Philip Magnus 'Edward VII' (1964) ch. 19

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• Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.

  Ray Bradbury

  Venice, People, Soul

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Death is a Lonely Business”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.

  James Dale Davidson

  Political, Soul, Liberty

  "Democrats Want Hardworking Americans to Pay for Everything! Now, the Internet?", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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