"They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin."
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"I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea."
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"and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea."
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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."
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"In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood and suffering of the defeated enemy. Nowadays, it is much more terrifying because a person in an office can push a button and kill millions of people and never see the human tragedy that he or she has created. The mechanization of war, the mechanization of human conflict, poses an increasing threat to peace."
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"Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood."
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"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity."
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"And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands."
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"The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity."
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"I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood."
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"Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes."
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"For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins."
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"All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star stuff."
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"We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry."
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"Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame."
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"The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims."
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"The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood."
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"In the sinews of the dead there is no blood."
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"Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice."
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"The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me."
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