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• Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Couple, Children, Break Through

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• Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Nature, Giving Up, Science

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• I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.

  Charles Mathias

  Children, School, Home

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• All the work I did was to challenge politics, culture, and women's rights. I felt like I really wanted to break out. That's why I wanted to use graffiti. It's more open. I don't need people to come to an exhibition. Graffiti gives a voice to the walls.

  Malina Suliman

  Wall, Rights, Voice

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• If people say harsh words to me though, I don't care. It's a risk to my life. The Taliban don't want us to be working, so they'll shoot us. And women who break their rules, they put acid on them. I said, if they shoot me, OK, but if they put acid on me, I will be alive as a dead body. I was always so afraid of that.

  Malina Suliman

  People, Risk, Alive

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Important, Tables

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2011.

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• You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.

  Lev Grossman

  Moving, Want, Needs

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2011.

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• You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.

  Ester Dean

  Guitar, Play, Fingers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't like not saying anything. I don't like having a wall between me and the audience. I want to break down that wall and communicate with the people in the room, 'cause we're there together and we're having a nice moment.

  Aurora Aksnes

  Wall, Nice, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

  Horace

  Wall, Powerful, Gold

  Horace, Philip FRANCIS (D.D.) (1815). “The Works of Horace, Translated by Philip Francis”, p.103

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• When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Giving Up, Fall

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.58, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

  Martial

  Hands, Crystals, Faults

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• A stout heart breaks bad luck.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Heart, Luck, Stout

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.601, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Sleep, Eight

  Winston Churchill (1996). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, Scribner

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• That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

  Brian Aldiss

  Artist, Roles, Something New

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• The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

  James Russell Lowell

  Son, Men, White

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.17

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• The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

  Ovid

  Strength, Bruised

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• Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Zero, Destiny, World

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.192, CUP Archive

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• Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.

  Arthur Koestler

  War, Taken, Eggs

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• How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.

  Robert Southey

  Beautiful, Night, Clouds

  Robert Southey (1829). “Poetical works”, p.89

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• Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

  Alexander Pope

  Butterfly, Wheels, Satire

  "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 307 (1735)

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• Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

  John Milton

  Pain, Venture, Way

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1831). “Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books”, p.99

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• Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.

  Blaise Pascal

  Law, Break Through, Choices

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• Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

  Solon

  Men, Agreement, Advantage

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• I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.

  Isaac Asimov

  Lucky, Heredity, Sweepstakes

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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