"Women are like pumpkins; you search and search for the perfect one, bring it home, and the next thing you know, you're looking for a knife."
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"There never was a good knife made of bad steel."
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"When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him."
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"Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'? O friar, the damned use that word in hell; Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart, Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend professed, To mangle me with that word 'banished'?"
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"I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world."
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". . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips."
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"Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife."
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"HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids."
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"Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle."
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"Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself."
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"It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right."
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"Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife."
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"New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time."
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"Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives."
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""She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course.""
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"They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives."
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"I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets."
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"The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood."
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"The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife."
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"Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife."
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