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• Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

  Melissa Marr

  Feelings, Shells, Easy

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• Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.

  Michael Jackson

  Brother, Years, Littles

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• Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

  Maya Banks

  Obsessive, Consuming, Built

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• The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Fate, Labels

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

  Timothy Keller

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.2, Penguin

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• Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

  Jean Webster

  Thinking, Laughing, Tragedy

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.34, Jester House Publishing

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• Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lost, Curse

  The Hobbit, 2nd ed., ch. 5 (1951)

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• The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Men, Self

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.389, Penguin

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• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sex, People, Thank God

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

  H. G. Wells

  Truth, Humility, Mind

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.2046, Delphi Classics

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• From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Suicide, Military, Army

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• Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy

  Aidan Chambers

  Real, Being In Love, Love Is

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• I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its physical hugeness, its rough enormity. It is still a disparate monstrosity, full of solitudes, barrens, wilds. It still dwarfs, terrifies, crushes. The rivers still roar, the mountains still crash, the winds still shatter. Man is an affair of cities. His gardens, orchards and fields are mere scrapings. Somehow, however, he has managed to shut out the face of the giant from his windows. But the giant is there, nevertheless.

  Wallace Stevens

  Men, Garden, Wind

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• The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Interesting, Political, Bourgeoisie

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• Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Music, Tragedy, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.

  Paul Murray

  Expectations, Grace, Able

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• General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.289, Taylor & Francis

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• [W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

  Jared Diamond

  Religious, Patriotic, Order

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.

  Robert De Niro

  Good Day, Writing, Procrastination

  "Girls and OCD" by Tara Fass and Lisa Jonsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2014.

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• I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.

  Stephen Colbert

  Girl, Teacher, Real

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. August 11, 2003.

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• My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock.

  Selma Blair

  Firsts, First Crush

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.

  Paul Lockhart

  Jobs, Children, Ideas

  "A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form". Book by Paul Lockhart, 2009.

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• Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Fate, Destiny, Two

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• Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

  William Blake

  Philosophy, Writing, Night

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.379, Oxford University Press, USA

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