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• A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished. He managed to save his life; but as he was falling he hit a person standing down below and broke that person's legs and arms. The jumping man had no choice; yet to the man with the broken limbs he was the cause of his misfortune. If both behaved rationally, they would not become enemies.

  Isaac Deutscher

  Fall, Men, Jumping

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• We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar.

  Heather O'Neill

  Kids, Chocolate, Black

  Heather O'Neill (2009). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

  Ronnie Wood

  Risk, Faults, Management

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• If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

  Pete Seeger

  Cutting, Guitar, Evening

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• John Lennon brought his wife Cynthia, a nice blonde girl and she was horribly put out of sight and stayed home. I know it broke John's heart John wasn't happy about it and she was-- because we spoke on the plane. I photographed her and them on the plane coming over. And you know photographs don't lie. They tried putting on a black wig on her for a couple of days and that was the sad part that kept quiet because they wanted them to be like, you know, fresh- which they were

  Harry Benson

  Girl, Couple, Nice

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• The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

  Danny Brown

  Rap, Artist, Supposed To Be

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• John Kerry fell off of his bicycle over the weekend. He went for a Sunday afternoon ride, fell off in front of the news media. Luckily, his hair broke the fall so it's not as serious. ... Thankfully, Senator Kerry was not seriously injured. In fact, when the police arrived, Kerry was well enough to give conflicting reports to the officers about what happened.

  Jay Leno

  Fall, Sunday, Weekend

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• To see cartoon-me positioned (alphabetically) amongst so many of my women heroes and role models ... well, I just broke down and cried. Happy tears. I surely hope that this one-of-a-kind collection of radical American women reaches the hands of all children who want to grow up and become amazing women.

  Kate Bornstein

  Children, Growing Up, Hero

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• I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.

  James Lasdun

  Self Confidence, Emotion, Easy

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• My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

  Arthur Golden

  Feelings, Tears, Tables

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• President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.

  Anthony Romero

  Law, Speaks Out, People

  "ACLU blasts Justice Dept. leaks probe". Anthony Romero's statement in the American Civil Liberties Union letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, www.upi.com. December 30, 2005.

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• All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.

  Will Durant

  Wall, Democracies Have, Government

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with In the Valley of Elah. I said, "Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax." And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery.

  Paul Haggis

  Two, Murder Mysteries, Relax

  "Director Paul Haggis Talks THIRD PERSON, Putting the Cast Together, How He’d Like to Do an Extended Version, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 20, 2014.

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• The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Morning, Party

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.344, Pan Macmillan

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• Lost motivation means that you broke promises to yourself and haven't corrected them yet. You need to believe in yourself again. This can only happen when you start fulfilling the small promises you make to yourself.

  Chris Powell

  Motivation, Believe, Mean

  "Get Fit for 2013: Chris Powell Answers 'GMA' Viewers' Questions". "Good Morning America", abcnews.go.com. January 4, 2013.

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• Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke. So the savings and loans went broke, the government stepped in, paid off depositors, and now they're left with this mass of assets to sell. We're not talking about selling here, we're talking about buying intelligently. They were selling what they got handed to them by a bunch of savings and loan operators that had in many cases had done some very dumb thing. But their job was to liquidate it. And they liquidated.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Government, Talking

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• As an individual, as a household, you can't spend more money than you're bringing in. You can do it for a little while, but you end up going broke and you end up losing everything you have. That is the path that we're on as a country, and it scares me to death.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Country, Losing Everything, Scare

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 21, 2012.

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• It broke my heart when my first band split up. I was 25 and we'd been together since we were 15. But it had to happen. There was a point when I knew I had to move on.

  Richard Hawley

  Moving, Heart, Together

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I broke my heart in two
  So hard I struck.
  What matter? for I know
  That out of rock,
  Out of a desolate source,
  Love leaps upon its course.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Two, What Matters

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Flames, Years

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• And you dropt, lost,
  When something broke--
  And let you from a Dream

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Lost

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.196, Harvard University Press

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• good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete?
  What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne?
  Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete?
  Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?

  Edmund Spenser

  Art, Mourning, Thee

  Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.376

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• The torrent of the reaching shade
  Broke shadow into all its parts,
  What then had been of shadow made
  Found exigence in fits and starts.

  Allen Tate

  Shadow, Shade, Fit

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.73, Macmillan

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• I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.

  Gary Reilly

  Debt

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• The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

  Immanuel Kant

  Agreement, Land, Numbers

  Immanuel Kant (1915). “Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary of Its First Publication”

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