"Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments."
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"I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it."
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"I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it."
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"I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him."
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"Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity."
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"When you break rules, break 'em good and hard"
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"You can't take no breaks."
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"It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all."
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"When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't make it work," I don't get that. I don't understand what that means. Make it work."
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"Having a pulmonary embolism is definitely easier than heart break."
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"What are you gonna do if I break one of your *&^%$ing rules?"
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"The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength."
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"You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die."
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"You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again."
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"Learn not only the rules of art, but 'when' and 'how' to break them."
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"Life's had to break you down so you could be rebuilt"
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"Perhaps the things that break our hearts are the very things that serve to open them."
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"When you're told as a caddie we need to take a break, you're fired."
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"The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other."
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"Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous."
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