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• Renewable ethanol represents a clear opportunity to grow a significant portion of our own fuel locally and begin to break the hold imported fuels have on us.

  Mike May

  Opportunity, Fuel, Holding On

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• When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

  Portia de Rossi

  Doors, People, Holding On

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Believe, School

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.

  Deepak Chopra

  Change, Way, Problem

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• If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

  John Sculley

  Courage, People, Worry

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• In order to benefit; however, you must believe that life is plotting for you. We often resist this emerging impulse or this urge to emerge because we are afraid of change, right? To the ego, change is equivalent to danger or death. But when we deny this evolutionary call, it causes an inner pressure that must find an outlet, sometimes in destructive ways. And this can break out as disease, financial collapse, or relationship meltdown.

  Derek Rydall

  Believe, Order, Ego

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• From the baking aisle to the post office line to the wrapping paper bin in the attic, women populate every dark corner of Christmas. Who got up at 4 a.m. to put the ham in the oven? A woman. . . . Who sent the Christmas card describing her eighteen-year-old son's incarceration as 'a short break before college?' A woman. Who remembered to include batteries at the bottom of each stocking? A woman. And who gets credit for pulling it all off? Santa.That's right. A man.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Healing, Son, Dark

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• We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil... The best way to break this addiction is through technology.

  George W. Bush

  Technology, Oil, America

  George W. Bush's State of the Union Address, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 2006.

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• Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top of their game. I mean, Tony Bennett is the coolest guy I ever met! We have to figure out how to break out of this age ghetto.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Mean, Ghetto, Games

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• I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to serve the economy, but the economy exists to serve man...A society built on consumerism must break down eventually for the same reason socialism did'

  Paul Weyrich

  Writing, Men, Doe

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• Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Life, Singing, Bottles

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• There is no option but to transform our world to a zero carbon future. We will fight to ensure that no one is left behind. This report breaks new ground and gives workers and businesses the confidence that there can be an economic plan which creates jobs and sets our planet on the course for survival.

  Sharan Burrow

  Jobs, Zero, Fighting

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• I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.

  Maria McCann

  Life, Wise, Men

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• Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

  Peter Straub

  Life, Pain, Half

  Peter Straub (2015). “Ghost Story”, p.302, Penguin

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• I am hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?

  Stephanie Perkins

  Life, Heart, Use

  Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Isla and the Happily Ever After”, p.192, Penguin

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• She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Life, Departed, Grandfather

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Fever 1793”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.

  Aimee Bender

  Life, Sadness, Loss

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• I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

  Colleen Hoover

  Life, Ideas, Needs

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Life, Storm, World

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• ...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ranges, and all words become the dissolving snow that feeds your mountain streams forever. The language locks itself in the icy slopes of our own high passes, and it is up to us, the writers, to melt the glaciers within us. When these glaciers break off, we get to call them novels, the changelings of our burning spirits, our life's work.

  Pat Conroy

  Break Off, Rivers, Snow

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• The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Reality, Historical, Normal

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• It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Strong, Kings, Light

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• When you break an agreement in a relationship, you must offer an amendment first, or it is meaningless.

  Marshall Sylver

  Agreement, Firsts, Amendments

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• It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

  Guy Finley

  Ties, Complaining, Situation

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Jan 13, 2013

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• Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks,
  you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

  Garry Trudeau

  Life Is Like, Bathroom, Get Up

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