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• If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.153, Verso

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• I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

  Vera Brittain

  Break Up, Husband, Reading

  "Violets and Vinegar". Book by Jilly Cooper and Tom Hartman, "The Battle Done", 1980.

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• I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

  Bobby Fischer

  Men, Chess Game, Psychology

  "Chess is a wonderful game, but it's no life coach" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2015.

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• Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

  Indira Gandhi

  Acting, Small Steps, Prejudice

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

  Eric Idle

  Domestic Violence, Sticks, May

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• Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

  C. S. Lewis

  Law, Miracle, Facts

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Children, Fall, Errors

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 146, 1799.

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• Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

  Bam Margera

  House, Wrecks, Stuff

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• A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

  Robert Morgan

  Break Through, Asian, Watches

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• Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

  Adam Rickitt

  Break Up, Community, Drug

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• Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

  Henry Rollins

  Broken Heart, Crush, Lost Love

  Song: Blues Jam

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• Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

  Helen Rowland

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Men

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.

  Scott Stapp

  Break Up, Thinking, Doors

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• I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

  Ringo Starr

  Break Up, War, Mean

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• Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

  Clarence Thomas

  Break Up, Organization, Black

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• I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

  Vera Wang

  Artist, Past, Giving

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• Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Change, Inspiring, Break Up

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• If this fame, which people call my lucky break,
  were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care

  Brigitte Bardot

  People, Lucky, Care

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• I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Break Up, Years, Trying

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• I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.

  David James

  Break Up, War, Rocks

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me.

  Katie Holmes

  Break Up, Breakup, Turns

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• The heart was made to be broken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moving On, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

  Ian Mcewan

  People, Novelists, Vulnerable

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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