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"The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace."
"There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?"
"When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun."
"Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score."
"If you are a physician and someone comes to see you with an absolutely incapacitating headache or a swollen arm, you don't tell them, "Come back in 10 years when I've completed my study and I'll see what I can do for you.""
"Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction"
"When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm."
"What's gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize we're all one. Ha ha ha ha ha! It's gonna fuck up the economy! The economy that's fake anyway! Ha ha ha! Which would be a real bummer. You know. You can see why the government's cracking down... on the idea of experiencing unconditional love, ah."
"It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer."
"For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not"
"An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it."
"Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow."
"That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change."
"Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace."
"I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a Lover"
"There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce."
"The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout."
"The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny."
"When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery."
"Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length."
