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"I swear to God, I went in to buy bikinis, and the lady's like, 'You're not getting out of this store 'til you get down there and show me what you do for those abs and the arms.' She wouldn't sell me my bikinis! I had to get on the floor and do the stomach thing."
"The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms."
"But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine."
"Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood."
"Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity."
"The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements."
"The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height."
"Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?"
"But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose."
"My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world."
"Infinite goodness has such wide arms."
"The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!"
"I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever."
"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."
"In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also."
"There are endless exercises for arms, but the basics are best-chinups and pushups."
"Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms."
"Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish."
"Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said."
"In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast."
