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• The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, House, Soul

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.144, Shambhala Publications

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• Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that's just a risk of the sport. If you can't keep from worrying about it, then you're in the wrong line of work.

  Coo Coo Marlin

  Sports, Worry, Risk

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• It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspiring, Stars, Men

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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Sleep, Insomnia

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• My mom's disease, Hodgkin's disease, wiped us out financially. We eventually lost our businesses. I understand we're all one car wreck from needing help.
  But what it told Lindsey Graham, above all else, is that family, friends and faith really do matter. I'm a lucky man to have had all the support I've had all these years.

  Lindsey Graham

  Mom, Men, Years

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

  Walter Mosley

  Train Wrecks, Survivor, World

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.21, Penguin

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• On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.

  Matt Dickinson

  Failure, Train Wrecks, Champion

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• Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

  Clarence Darrow

  Lawyer, Poet

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• It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

  Jenny Valentine

  Life, Storm, Faces

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• Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.

  Holly Golightly

  Girl, Shade, Breakfast At Tiffanys

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• As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck.

  Roger Staubach

  Nervous, Admirer, Owners

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• Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Tragedy, Would Be

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.197, Penguin

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• Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
  Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
  Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
  Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

  William Shakespeare

  Woe Unto, Bird, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The Poems of William Shakspere: With Facts Connected with His Life”, p.42

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• Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Cutting, Class

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• Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.

  Martin Luther

  Use, Lord, Should

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• The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as you can. Extract every drop of hydrocarbons off the ground and destroy the environment. At the opposite extreme are countries like Bolivia and Ecuador, indigenous people around the world, and first nations in Canada and tribal people in India, campesinos in Colombia... They're trying to save the commons.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Opposites

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.

  Seth Godin

  Persons

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• I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Feelings, Actors, Moments

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Knocked sideways". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.

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• My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

  Bo Bice

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• Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Usury, Nations

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

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• Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

  Bryan Ferry

  Band, Rooms, Hotel

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• Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.

  Dave Matthews

  Car, Wells, Car Wreck

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• Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

  Rupert Murdoch

  Order, Billions

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• Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime... But mourn the inward wreck we feel As hoary years depart, And Time's effacing fingers steal Young feelings from the heart!

  Robert Montgomery

  Heart, Years, Wings

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• The times in my life when I've been my thinnest, I've been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was basically starving myself; skinny was usually due to some kind of loss. Death. Rejection. Divorce.

  Stephanie Klein

  Divorce, Loss, Rejection

  "Moose: A Memoir". Book by Stephanie Klein, www.today.com. 2008.

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