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• There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Eye, Burdens Of Life

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.61

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• Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden.

  Richard Realf

  Soul, Sculptors, Statues

  Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1898). “Poems”

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• As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.

  James MacArthur

  Voice, Long, Use

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• Take care of yourself. Eat well, rest, train hard and smart, make time to think and breathe. Be intentional with your time.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Smart, Thinking, Train Hard

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• In an interview John [Linnell] said, 'At a certain point you just get tired of the way the other person breathes,' and I took that pretty hard because I, personally, am infatuated with the way John breathes.

  John Flansburgh

  Tired, Way, Interviews

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• There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, gently altered for having known us.

  Diane Ackerman

  Cells, World, Body

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.20, Vintage

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• Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business. We live and breathe only one thing, which is wanting to connect consumers with great local businesses, and I don't feel we can do that if we don't have effective ways to prevent gaming of the system.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Local Business, Way, Maintaining

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• Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Hypocrisy

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.299, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.

  Yoko Ono

  Simple, Thinking, Breathing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
  Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
  Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
  The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Jesus, Flower, Passion

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.

  Denise Levertov

  Attitude, Moving, Poetry

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• I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things like how to breathe in and out with your husband (I had my baby when they gave you a shot in the hip and you didn't wake up until the kid was ready to start school), and not enough time given to how to mother after the baby is born.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Baby, Husband

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.167, Open Road Media

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• I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Party, Sarcasm

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.280, Xist Publishing

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• If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare,
  One cordial in this melancholy vale,
  'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair
  In other's arms breathe out the tender tale

  Robert Burns

  Heaven, Arms, Pairs

  Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.42

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• Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through.
  Have liberty not as the air within a grave
  Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native,
  In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.

  Wallace Stevens

  Freedom, Hate, Air

  Wallace Stevens (1954). “Collected poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

  Mason Cooley

  Religion, Dirt, Purpose

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• I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!

  Sophia Loren

  Cooks, I Can

  "Fictional character: Dita". "Legend of the Lost", www.imdb.com. 1957.

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• The sky breaks.
  It sags and breathes upon my face.
  in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies
  The world is full of enemies.
  There is no safe place.

  Anne Sexton

  Sky, Enemy, World

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.

  Alexandra Robbins

  Children, Teenager, Book

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• We are all just here for a time - whether in this building or even on this earth. But the values we hold dear will live on long after we have left this stage. Our responsibility, while we are here, is to breathe life into them; to imbue them with the strength of our convictions and the weight of our efforts.

  Loretta Lynch

  Responsibility, Long, Effort

  "Loretta Lynch is sworn in as U.S. attorney general" by Kevin Johnson, www.usatoday.com. April 27, 2015.

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• You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

  Jean Racine

  Passion, Tragedy, Literature

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• Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Giving, Use

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1973). “Philosophical investigations”

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• Seems like just yesterday, you were a part of me. I used to stand so tall, I used to be so strong; your arms around me tight, everything felt so right - unbreakable, like nothing could go wrong. Now I can't breathe. No, I can't sleep; I'm barely hanging on. Here I am, once again, I'm torn into pieces. Can't deny it, can't pretend, just thought you were the one. Broken up, deep inside, but you won't get to see the tears I cry.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Strong, Lost Love, Sleep

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• I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls come from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Ocean, Fire, Dragons

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• We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum.
  Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly
  Thunders.

  James Kirkup

  Heart, Car, Thunder

  James Kirkup (1996). “An extended breath: collected longer poems and sequences”

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