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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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"You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going"

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken."

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Arianna Huffington Author, Businesswoman
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"The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics."

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken."

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Walter Russell Artist, Author, Philosopher
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"He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening."

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
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"So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything."

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up."

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Sally Gardner Author
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"Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away still returned, lost and found. It could do all that and still you lived, though according to some, only just."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing. How many of those things did he make me believe?"

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