"Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects."
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"The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer."
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"Blood alone moves the wheels of history."
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"Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed."
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"Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be left till the child has not only repeatedly breathed but till all pulsation in the cord ceases. As otherwise the child is much weaker than it ought to be, a part of the blood being left in the placenta which ought to have been in the child and at the same time the placenta does not so naturally collapse, and withdraw itself from the sides of the uterus, and is not therefore removed with so much safety and certainty."
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"No one thinks of how much blood it costs."
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"Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run many hazards, and ought not even to repine at the greatest effusion of blood or dissipation of treasure."
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"stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover."
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"escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you."
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"The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood."
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"Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please."
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"What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction"
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"Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up."
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"In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood."
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"Blood of my heart, protection is thine. Life of my life, taking yours, taking mine Body of my body, marrow and mind Soul of my soul, to our spirit bind Blood of my heart, my tides, my moon Blood of my heart, my salvation, my doom"
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"Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful."
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"When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her."
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"When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on."
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"In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with."
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"Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?"
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