C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms."
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Arms
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Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Free men do not ask permission to bear arms"
Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree."
Woodrow Wilson
Politician
"To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just."
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"So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm. . . ." He shook his head. "You know what, Harry? If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you."
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"The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist."
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"There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms."
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"Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you."
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"I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more"
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"Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute."
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"I'm not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back."
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"'The demon cried, waving its furry arms above his head like a demented orangutan."
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"And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says."
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"Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world."
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"If God had intended us not to masturbate, He would have made our arms shorter."
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"Arms and laws do not flourish together."
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"I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied."
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"Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels."
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"The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated."
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"Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther."
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"When your arms are bigger than your head, something is wrong."
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"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary."
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"Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage."
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"You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run"
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