"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."
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"As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron."
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"I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream."
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"A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity."
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"Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood."
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"Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor."
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"Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes."
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"Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant."
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"[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary."
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"Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood."
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"I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me."
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"The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood."
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"The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood."
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"Becoming a vegan gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life. I was so congested from all the drugs and bad cocaine, I could hardly breathe, [I had] high blood pressure, [was] almost dying [and had] arthritis. And once I became a vegan all that stuff diminished."
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"I think I'll take a bath in his blood."
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"Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease."
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"She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his life from escaping. She would hold life inside him and he wouldn’t die"
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"Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn."
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"Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!"
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"The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States."
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