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• I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.

  Alexander Fleming

  Playing Games, Able, Microbes

  Beverley Birch, Alexander Fleming (2002). “Alexander Fleming: Pioneer with Antibiotics”, Blackbirch PressInc

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• I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Trying, Norm, Company

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• I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

  Max Cannon

  Publishing

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• But, I didn't get my first break until I was 17.

  Stephen Dorff

  Firsts

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• In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.

  Ken Curtis

  Break A Leg, People, Legs

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• If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

  Agnes Macphail

  Home, Mean, Preservation

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• My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

  Sally Kirkland

  Girl, School, Kids

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• Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

  Al Kaline

  Sports, Switching

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• I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

  Alain Prost

  Car, Hated, Mentality

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• Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.

  Anne Grant

  Problem

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• When we first sort of break in or bust into the house, if you will, there's some tough love.

  Thom Filicia

  House, Tough Love, Firsts

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

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• Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

  Dan DeCarlo

  Successful, Bigs, Wells

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• Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Character, Long, Firsts

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• We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

  Bobby Jindal

  Oil, Energy, Needs

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• I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Dark, Break Out, Causes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

  Charles Dickens

  Lonely, Nature, Night

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.731, Booklassic

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• The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us. It was on the break-the moon shone on its crest and tipped its foam with light. On it rushed beneath the inky sky, driven by the awful squall behind it.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Dark, Moon, White

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1014, Delphi Classics

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• "I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and they have drove and drove and been beat off, may be t'other side the world. But the ship's a good ship, and the lad's a good lad; and it ain't easy, thank the Lord," the Captain made a little bow, "to break up hearts of oak, whether they're in brigs or buzzums."

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Heart, Weather

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Dombey and SonI”, p.340, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Running, Mind, Prejudice

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.624, Delphi Classics

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• One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Healing, Past

  T. D. Jakes (2008). “Anointing Fall on Me: Accessing the Power of the Holy Spirit”, p.135, Destiny Image Publishers

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• The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Cute, Boys, Murder Victims

  Raymond Chandler (1983). “The Chandler Collection: Pearls are a nuisance ; Smart-aleck kill ; Killer in the rain”

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• RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Expectations, Done, Assassins

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.776, Library of America

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• Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just satisfied, they're so shocked that they tell strangers on the street how good you are.

  Jack Welch

  Challenges, Stranger, Satisfied

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• Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have lost their flexibility, is the art of handling the same bundle of data as before, but placing them in a new system of relations with one another by giving them a different framework, all of which virtually means putting on a different kind of thinking-cap for the moment. It is easy to teach anybody a new fact...but it needs light from heaven above to enable a teacher to break the old framework in which the student is accustomed to seeing.

  Arthur Koestler

  Teacher, Art, Mean

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• In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

  Mary Hart

  Organization, News, Stories

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