"Love is like pancreatitis; it starts off slow, then builds in intensity until you become consumed and develop violent cramps."
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"The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me."
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"The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you have to stay in pretty good shape."
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"I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything."
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"The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason."
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"Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?"
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"The more violent the storm the sooner it is over."
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"On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get."
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"Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results."
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"Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action."
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"Violent means will give violent freedom."
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"It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means."
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"The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest."
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"Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative."
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"Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too."
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"Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love."
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"Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively."
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"States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power"
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"Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience."
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"Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent."
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