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"We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle."
"Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith."
"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."
"Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world."
"Blood is thicker than water, but family isn’t just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don’t have those things, I don’t care what the blood says. You’re not family."
"In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood."
"Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves."
"In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood."
"It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."
"But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!"
"You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place."
"The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree."
"where civil blood makes civil hands unclean"
"It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."
"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."
"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."
"The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue."
"Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy."
"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."
"Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood."
