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• I do know I'm going to heaven. I have read all of the Scriptures and the passages that define paradise and things like that. To me, what matters is I'm going to be with Jesus and I'm going to be in his presence. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. At that point, you know some to judgment, some to salvation.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, What Matters, Heaven

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• What's a country? It's just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it with nuclear bombs? I can't bow down to a municipality... it's just not intelligent. The bastards will do what they have to do, and we'll do what we have to do. Even if they annihilate us, we'll go down on the other side.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Intelligent, Bombs

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Strength, Wise, Hope

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.38, BookRix

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• I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Desire, Wells, Unsatisfied

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All Mongol women are born to the horse and the bow.

  Zhu Zhu

  Horse, Mongols, Born

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

  Patti Smith

  Journey, Choices, Suffering

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• That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

  Karl Kraus

  Cheating, Humility, Doe

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
  All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow,
  Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.

  Matthew Arnold

  Success, Pain, Grief

  Matthew Arnold (1854). “Poems”, p.226

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• I'm really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That's not my thing. You're not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows.

  Erin Wasson

  Crazy, Dresses, Looks

  "The close-up". Interview with Simon Chilvers, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

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• Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

  Charles Kingsley

  Military, War, Rain

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Self, Practice, Desire

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• My personal belief is we should not bow to any object. But Islam was aware of this human weakness and fulfilled that need through Haj to kiss a stone. A stone is a stone but the vacuum was filled and it became the holiest object. I have performed Haj and seen the devotion of people braving stampedes only to kiss that stone.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Kissing, People, Islam

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being drawn across the bridge and the music rises into the night sky. It is far away and barely audible - but there it is! A pizzicato. Then a tremelo. The style is unmistakable. It is Sherlock Holmes who is playing. It must be. I hope with all my heart that he is playing for me . . .

  Anthony Horowitz

  Heart, Night, Sky

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• As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977 the bow-wave of publicity for the first Star Wars movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.

  Philip Reeve

  Stars, Children, War

  "Philip Reeve: 'I can't even drive a car, let alone an inter-dimensional phone box'". Interview with Patrick, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2013.

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• Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dark, Technology, Arrows

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• I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

  John le Carre

  Giving, Strings

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• The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

  Publilius Syrus

  Broken, Tension

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 388, 1856.

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• Looking up in the sky, I saw the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before- a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girls figure- a girl with a bow, running across the sky. "Let the world honor you, my Huntress. Live forever in the stars.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Running, Stars

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• I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Air, Knives, Arrows

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.

  Fritz Leiber

  Dream, Stupid, Thinking

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• The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again.

  Elie Wiesel

  Play, Soul, Darkness

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• The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

  Jean Giraudoux

  War, Men, Brave

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of the bow, I should be able to use similar techniques for measuring the way anybody moves, and so somebody who is not a professional or a trained musician, I should be able to make a musical environment for them.

  Tod Machover

  Moving, Thinking, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

  Claire Wolfe

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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• You are exactly who the Greatest You (aka God) most wanted to be, not a frail offshoot who must bow, curtsey, and yield to this "higher power" but an unbeknownst Lord yourself.

  Mike Dooley

  God, Yield, Aka

  Mike Dooley (2009). “Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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