"Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken."
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"The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families."
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"I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair."
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"I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family."
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"There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they could not feel. 'Not a bird!' said Sam mournfully. 'No, no birds,' said Gollum. 'Nice birds!' He licked his teeth. 'No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,' he ended sadly. Sam looked at him with distaste."
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"Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair."
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"All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements"
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"We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines"
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"Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart."
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"To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth."
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"Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely."
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"When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in."
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"Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest."
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"Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken."
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"I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!"
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"As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God"
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"Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic."
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"Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is."
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"It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over."
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"I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting."
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