"The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail."
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"The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it."
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"I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin."
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"I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society."
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"Ive broken my nose, Ive broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."
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"To place any dependence upon Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff ... If I was called upon to declare upon Oath , whether the Militia have been most serviceable or hurtful upon the whole; I should subscribe to the latter."
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"Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you."
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"Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything."
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"Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done."
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"Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight."
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"Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places."
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"But I tell you - and mark my words - you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current."
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"Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay."
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"I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world."
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"All Egyptians, not only the protestors, have broken through the fear barrier, therefore I expect only one outcome - protests will continue until Mubarak steps down from power."
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"I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning."
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"When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful."
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"Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken."
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"Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass."
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"Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken."
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