"Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I was going to squirt tears. How unprofessional."
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"Hillary Clinton is going to build up opportunity. Donald Trump is going to tear it down if he becomes president."
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"I wait for the morning of my tears"
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"Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night."
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"With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears."
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"The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life."
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"Tears mess up your makeup."
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"Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor."
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"My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away"
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"We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want."
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"Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe."
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"All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation."
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"She laid her head against his collarbone, and he kissed her temple. To her shock, she felt a shudder roll through his body about the same time she registered wetness against her skin. Tears. His tears. She started to turn around, but he tightened his grip. “Stay,” he said in a choked voice. “Just let me hold you, baby. Just let me hold you."
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"I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say."
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"Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head."
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"Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears."
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"Smiles form the channels of a future tear."
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"And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being."
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"I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!"
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"Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield."
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