"To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day"
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"The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone"
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"Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses."
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"I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music."
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"The beat generation (coined in Playboy)"
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"Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer."
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"I am the beast, Feed me rappers or feed me beats"
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"How do you beat Obama? Beat him with a Cain!"
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"I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them."
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"I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ...""
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"He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care."
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"And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought."
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"Implementation beats oration."
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"Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon."
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"If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell."
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"You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing."
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"Life is the path you beat while you walk it."
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"You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me."
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"Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme."
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"Come near me and I'll rip your wings off and beat you with them."
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