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• Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.

  Alfred Adler

  Fiction, Neurosis, Medical

  "The Neurotic Constitution: Outlines Of A Comparative Individualistic Psychology And Psychotherapy".

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• After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

  Buffalo Bill

  Rivers, Safe, Lasts

  Buffalo Bill, William Frederick Cody (1994). “The life of Buffalo Bill”

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• If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

  Lenny Bruce

  Jesus, Children, School

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• I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

  Eric Clapton

  Mean, Guitar, People

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• It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

  Andre Gide

  Honor, Age, Literature

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• You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Cowboy, Baptists, Might

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• Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

  Franz Kafka

  Literature, Body, Martyr

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Soul, Mind, Library

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.39, Faber & Faber

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• The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

  John Lennon

  Honor, Distinction, Legion

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• I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

  Shirley Manson

  Mean, Purpose, My Own

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• When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

  Mary McCarthy

  Men, People, Literature

  On the Contrary (1961) "America the Beautiful"

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• In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

  John McCrae

  Blow, Gun, Sky

  Punch 8 Dec. 1915 "In Flanders Fields"

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• I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

  Mandy Moore

  Singers, Actresses, Want

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• I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

  Samuel Pepys

  Happiness, Men, Cheerful

  'Diary' 13 October 1660

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• A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Men, Looks, Literature

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• Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Humor, Political

  George W. Bush's Speech at Annual National Prayer Breakfast, www.cnn.com. February 1, 2001.

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• We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

  Bernard Baruch

  Bridges, Economy, Lays

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• He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

  Francis Quarles

  Crowns, Literature, Deserve

  "Hadassa". 1621.

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• To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Responsibility

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Flower, Winter

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• Jesus was a cross-dresser.

  George Carlin

  Jesus, Genuine, Dressers

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

  Taryn Manning

  Use, Actors, Singers

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• I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

  Jim Elliot

  Lying, Mean, Men

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• The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

  John Stott

  Friday, Jesus, Scales

  John Stott, Christopher J. H. Wright (2015). “Christian Mission in the Modern World”, p.72, InterVarsity Press

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• Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Doubt, Resurrection, Interpretation

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