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• You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Wise, Dream

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• Fashion is self confident and fearless.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Self, Fearless

  "Are the British really the worst-dressed tourists?" by Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2007.

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• Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Archer, Arrows

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

  Fred Bear

  Archery, Arrows, Mankind

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• Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are going to fight the wrong battle.

  T. B. Joshua

  Fighting, People, Battle

  "How I predicted xenophobic attacks in South Africa — T.B Joshua" by Abiodun Alade, www.vanguardngr.com. April 17, 2015.

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• Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

  Rick Kaplan

  Ties, Bow Tie, Defiance

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• I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

  Tupac Shakur

  Leadership, Respect, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Heart, World

  William Butler Yeats (1954). “The Letters of W.B. Yeats”

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• His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

  Clement Clarke Moore

  White, Snow, Beard

  Clement Clarke Moore “The Night Before Christmas”, Library of Alexandria

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• It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

  Billy Rose

  Praise, Chips, Shoulders

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• Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

  Samuel Ullman

  Heart, Self, Dust

  "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.

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• What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

  Pete Fountain

  Jealousy, Ties, Band

  "Jazz festival plans commemoration for trumpeter Al Hirt". www.cnn.com. April 28, 1999.

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• I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.

  Sessue Hayakawa

  Men, Japan, Two Friends

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• A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

  Shirley Manson

  Fear, Fancy Cars, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

  Saadi

  Heaven, Earth, Faces

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• If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

  Michael Schudson

  Silly, People, Culture

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.242, Routledge

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• We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

  Simone Weil

  Hurt, Horse, Pain

  Simone Weil (2009). “Formative Writings (Routledge Revivals)”, p.124, Routledge

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• Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

  John Philip Sousa

  Beauty, Lying, Remember

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• I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Kids, Garden

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• I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

  Guru Nanak

  Feet, Way, Praying

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  Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

  Christina Rossetti

  Clouds, Air, Passing By

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.17, OUP Oxford

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• I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Son, Religion

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• Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

  William O. Douglas

  Fear, History, Speak

  "Colten v. Kentucky, 407 U.S. 104". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 12, 1972.

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