"The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds."
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"Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash."
"See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them."
"I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God."
"When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens."
"I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash."
"I'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die."
"The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once."
"Rationalism crashes in the tails."
"Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn."
"When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life."
"So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!"
"If a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side... The pleasure - the privilege is mine."
"I know I will die in a car crash."