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• When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don’t quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible’s cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Beautiful, Voice, Cacophony

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• Tear gas, rubber bullets, and I would have arrested all the leaders. Oh, only a disgusting drunkard like ex-President Yahya Khan could have sullied himself with an operation carried out so badly and bloodily.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Leader, Tears, President

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda... coulda... shoulda.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mean, Meals, Zombieland

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• For nearly three decades there has been, by and large, peace and tranquility on the India-China border. Not a single bullet has been fired for over a quarter-century. Both countries are showing great maturity and a commitment to economic cooperation.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Commitment, Maturity

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim, Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.

  Conor Oberst

  Kindness, War, Rain

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• I noticed the bushes all around where I stood in my fight with the machine guns were all cut down. The bullets went over my head and on either side. But they never touched me.

  Alvin C. York

  Fighting, Cutting, Gun

  "Understanding the Odyssey: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents" by Claudia D. Johnson, 2003.

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• And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Special, Pork, Asking

  "Neda Agha Soltan’s Death Inspires New Site". blogs.wsj.com. June 22, 2009.

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• Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.

  Andrew Himes

  Beautiful, Suicide, Hurt

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• The Nazi murder squads just wouldn't waste a bullet on a child. I just couldn't process that. I couldn't handle it.

  Natasha Kaplinsky

  Children, Squad, Waste

  "Kaplinsky's tears over family secret". Interview in Metro, p. 23, August 28, 2007.

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• Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me--I swear--"The puff of smoke is too big." Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved.

  Stan Lee

  Artist, America, Hands

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• To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Memories, Rain, Heart

  Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.176, Macmillan

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• The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Men, Land, Feet

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2009.

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• It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is not a magic bullet in post-conviction cases.

  Chris Asplen

  Powerful, Thinking, Magic

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• A uniform cordoned off the area with crime scene tape. The M.E. pulled in and parked. There were two EMT trucks idling at the edge of the lot. I’d stayed close to the back door, and one of the Rangeman guys had taken a position two feet from me, standing at parade rest. No doubt in my mind he’d take a bullet for me rather than face Ranger over a dead Stephanie.

  Janet Evanovich

  Taken, Doors, Two

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.669, Bantam

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• The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Suicide, Gun, Climate

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• I looked down at my clothes. They were slashed to pieces and full of bullet holes, but I was fine. Not a mark on me. Nico's mouth hung open. "You just . . . with a sword . . . you just—" "I think the river thing worked," I said. "Oh gee," he said sarcastically. "You think?

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Rivers, Clothes

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• Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?

  Anton Chekhov

  Beautiful, Believe, Lost Ones

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• Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.

  Rachel Caine

  Idiot, Please, Morganville Vampires

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.230, Allison & Busby

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• It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  My Best Friend, Six, Murderer

  H.P. Lovecraft (2002). “Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft”, p.239, Del Rey

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• I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

  Barbara Bush

  Mean, Gun, Bombs

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. April 23, 2007.

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• They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Swans, Ballet

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• I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Long, Pits

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1311, Simon and Schuster

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• Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.

  H. R. McMaster

  World, Problem, Peacemaking

  "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint". www.nytimes.com. April 26, 2010.

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• If I fall if I die know I lived it to the fullest, if I fall if I die know I lived and missed some bullets

  Kid Cudi

  Fall, Knows, Dies

  Song: Pursuit Of Happiness, Album: Man on the Moon: The End of Day, 2009

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• I do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. It’s the way I am. I love it.

  Prince Harry

  Running, Way, Mud

  "Prince Harry Reflects on 21st Birthday", www.foxnews.com. September 15, 2005.

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