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• Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Strong, Son

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History”, p.41, Penguin

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• Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck.

  Leslie Ford

  Bystanders, Hands, Ideas

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• No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspiration, Englishmen

  'Saint Joan' (1924) sc. 4

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• I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers

  Woody Allen

  Inspiration, Quaker, Persons

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• You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.

  Nolan Ryan

  Leadership, Sports, Hard Work

  Nolan Ryan, Joe Torre, Joel H. Cohen (1977). “Pitching & hitting”, Prentice Hall

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• When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

  Jack Gantos

  Names, Black, Ink

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• The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

  Bob Schaffer

  Agency, Ukraine, News

  "Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, exhausted, hoaxed and robbed; then, upon the slightest resistance, at the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, annoyed, hunted down, pulled about, beaten, disarmed, bound, imprisoned, shot, judged, condemned, banished, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and, to crown all, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Government, Names, Annoyed

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• You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.

  Henri

  Killing, Strokes, Havens

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• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  Ralph Abernathy

  Fighting, Jail, Parks

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• You are a sick freak who should be beaten.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Sick, Freak

  "True Stories I Made Up". 2005.

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• Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Normal

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• The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Thinking, Mind, Eccentric

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• So loving is the universe, so joyful, so determined to give us everything we need and to love us and show us the way to live, too, that we are beaten to the ground, boiled by God's waves, as we play in the surf.

  Sophy Burnham

  Play, Giving, Needs

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• I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Children, Abuse, Confession

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• I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah.

  Dominic Monaghan

  People, Track, Camping

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• I've had my breath taken away when a fan told me since watching my speech she has stopped herself being beaten up by her father. I've been stunned by the amount of men in my life that have contacted me since my speech to tell me to keep going, and that they want to make sure that their daughters will still be alive to see a world where women have power and equality, economically and politically.

  Emma Watson

  Daughter, Father, Taken

  "Emma Watson at Davos: 'Women need to be equal participants'" by Carmen Fishwick, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2015.

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• Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

  Weed, Health, Doctors

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• If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

  George Orwell

  Investing, Results, Feels

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• There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don

  Steve Waugh

  Player, Next, Shame

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• I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

  John Bradshaw

  Hurt, People, Numb

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• As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Wonder, Lost

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'". kuow.org. March 6, 2014.

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• Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Kids, Parent, Adults

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson On Literacy, Curiosity, Education, And Being 'In Your Face'". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. February 25, 2010.

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• The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God.

  John Bunyan

  Sweet, Heart, Men

  John Bunyan (1850). “The works of John Bunyan: With an introduction to each treatise, notes, and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries”, p.710

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• The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Suffering, World, Knees

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1940). “The wave of the future: a confession of faith”

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