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"To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach."
"I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it."
"When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back."
"You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken."
"In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings."
"No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles."
"It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first."
"Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boy-centric."
"Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt."
"An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life."
"The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us."
"Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it."
"In true love there is no heart break. A broken heat means broken demands, broken expectations and broken hopes."
"The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix."
"I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks."
"Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come."
"If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become."
"A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain."
"If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger."
"Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur."
