"People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself."
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"Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it."
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"love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah."
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"When giving, praying, and fasting are practiced together in the life of a believer, it creates a type of threefold cord that is not easily broken."
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"A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world."
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"Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently."
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"We should never feel like we're going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate animals or to protect the environment are very insignificant compared to the laws that are broken by that parliament of whores in Washington. They are the biggest lawbreakers, the biggest destroyers, the biggest mass-murderers on this planet right now."
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"Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken."
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"Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us]."
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"We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate."
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"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."
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"Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw."
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"We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership."
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"Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that."
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"But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful."
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"It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah."
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"When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken."
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"All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken."
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"Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats."
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"It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay."
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