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• Refinancing won't fix everything that's broken with our [American] higher education system. We've got to bring down the cost of college. And we need more accountability for how schools spend federal dollars.

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, College, Accountability

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.

  George Herbert

  Pot, Whole

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.328

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• And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

  Jodi Lynn Anderson

  Heart, And Love, Expected

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• As those who are chosen, blessed, broken, and given, we are called to live our lives with a deep inner joy and peace. It is the life of the Beloved, lived in a world constantly trying to convince us that the burden is on us to prove that we are worthy of being loved.

  Henri Nouwen

  Blessed, Convince Us, Joy

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• We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Divorce, Home

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• To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.

  Uma Thurman

  Nice, Men, Lines

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• There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

  A. Scott Berg

  Editors, Leap Of Faith, Fiction And Nonfiction

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• Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see me on the street, they say 'by God, this kid is 5 foot 5, he's got a broken nose, and looks about as foreboding as a bank teller on a lunch break.'

  Rod Serling

  Kids, Lunch Break, Feet

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• ...the law which is never to be broken is never required.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Law

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.22, Penguin

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• My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

  Poppy Delevingne

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "10 Questions: Poppy Delevingne" by Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. October 9, 2012.

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• We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.

  August Wilson

  Thinking, Years, Land

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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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• It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Atheist, Pain, Hate

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• Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break
  And peace of pardon win!
  How else may man make straight his plan
  And cleanse his soul from Sin?
  How else but through a broken heart
  May Lord Christ enter in?

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Winning, Men

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 14 (1898)

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• I listen to a lot of 80s stuff, like Owner of a Lonely Heart, by the group Yes. And Mr. Misters Broken Wings.

  Timbaland

  Lonely, Heart, Wings

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• I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

  Lykke Li

  Homeless, Lost

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• The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

  Carl Bernstein

  Government, Branches, Three

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• Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

  Dennis Prager

  World, Moral, Compass

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.3, Creators Publishing

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• The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

  Martin Luther

  Self Confidence, Law, Ideas

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• Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.

  Alex Berenson

  Military, Law, Numbers

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• To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Love Is, Heaven

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• I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.

  Joe Torre

  Organization, Brave, Milwaukee

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• It is the broken heart that makes us human in the end.

  Melanie Rae Thon

  Heart, Ends, Humans

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• Hannah Tinti writes with uncommon grace and stunning insight. Her quirky tribe of outcasts will break into your dreams and steal your spirit. Surrender to them! Let your heart be broken! Only then will you know the tender thrill of their wild companionship. The Good Thief is pure delight. When you wake from this dream, you will wake bedazzled

  Melanie Rae Thon

  Dream, Writing, Heart

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• Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

  George Packer

  Party, Self, Abnormal

  "Darkness in Washington" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2013.

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