"Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts."
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"Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them."
"My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press."
"A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power."
"Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks."
"You have to break in half to love somebody."
"We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist."
"Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time."
"Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them."
"You can't break my heart. It's made of water."
"In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York."
"The best bet you get is an even break."
"A lot of countries break (or go against) the international law."
"Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him."
"If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows."
"Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break."
"Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places."
"I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?"
"You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny."
"And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music."