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• I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Order, Hammers, Tools

  Stephen Jay Gould (1996). “Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin”, Harmony

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• I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Causes, Cry

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [279]

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• Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stones, Becoming, Fame

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1930). “The Journal of My Other Self”

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• The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

  James A. Baldwin

  Past, Men, Black

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• I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It's delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, 'You know, that contains dairy.

  Helen Fielding

  Order, White, Tomatoes

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• It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

  Jacques Barzun

  Creative, Shadow, West

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• I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

  Ted Allen

  Jobs, Teaching, Wine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

  Rumi

  Laughter, Joy, Sorrow

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• Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

  Rumi

  Self, Idols, Easy

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• The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.

  Flann O'Brien

  Father, Drinking, Son

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• I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

  Fred Couples

  Player, Hair, Average

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• Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Running, Morning, Food

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Block, Car, Experience

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.158, Grove Press

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• If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an unwanted child or an oversize family is wrong -- not ethically wrong, not against the rules, but morally wrong, all wrong, wrong like a thalidomide birth, wrong like taking a wrong step that will break your neck -- if we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we'll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Thinking, Survival

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.31, Grove Press

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• To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Women, Order, Law

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.11, Grove Press

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• It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Scare, Paper

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays”, p.28, Counterpoint

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• Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic.

  Susan Sontag

  Country, Giving Up, Past

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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• There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

  Immanuel Kant

  Down And, Limits, Failing

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• First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

  Denis Diderot

  Art, Moving, Eye

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• Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

  Denis Diderot

  Law, Authority, Bad Laws

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• The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

  Mary McCarthy

  Mother, Children, Childhood

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

  Arthur Bloch

  Long, Progress, Enough

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• Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.

  Octavio Paz

  Creativity, Trying

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.53, Grove Press

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• Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.

  Octavio Paz

  Tradition, Modern, Revolt

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.17, Arcade Publishing

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• When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Want, Firsts

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