"We all shed salty tears and shed red blood. All is one."
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"I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood."
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"The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights."
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"You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore."
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"His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?"
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"What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power."
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"Athletics is in my blood."
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"Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love."
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"Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry."
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"If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing."
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"I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs."
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"If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it."
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"For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks."
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"Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery."
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"They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain."
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"The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood."
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"When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our spiritual heritage, we will avoid the kind of alienation that is destroying society, and we will become whole again. ... Learning to touch deeply the jewels of our own tradition will allow us to understand and appreciate the values of other traditions, and this will benefit everyone."
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"Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that."
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"For me, there's never any bad blood - unless you do something to me."
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"I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood."
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