"When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth."
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"If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough."
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"Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home."
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"The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man."
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"I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us."
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"And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now."
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"You do not need to be fixed. You are not broken. You have never been broken. You are not in parts. These are just thoughts. These are just beliefs. Accept your self, where you are in this moment. Accept your wholeness. That is freedom."
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"A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame."
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"I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to."
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"I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken."
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"The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy."
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"All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept inviolate. But if they are violative of the constitution, then the compact between the rulers and the ruled is broken and the obligation ceases to be binding."
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"This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'."
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"The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home."
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"Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done."
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"The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow."
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"Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks."
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"When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after."
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"Healthcare system is broken without lifetime employment."
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"Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs."
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