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• I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

  Mark Twain

  Hunting, Long, Waiting

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.18, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?

  William Sloane Coffin

  Thinking, Make You Think, Church

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.137, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.

  Abd-ru-shin

  Healthy, Use, Awakening

  Abd-ru-shin (1998). “In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message”, p.4, Grail Foundation Press

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• I don't really have a life philosophy; my thing is just rebelling against pretty much organized religion. That is my main thing, because personally I think it's a crutch for people that are too weak to get through life on their own. I'm the kind of guy that says if I don't see it, then it doesn't work. And nobody can show me God.

  Kerry King

  Philosophy, Thinking, People

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• An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

  Warren Buffett

  Two, Long, Waiting

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• You can rise above it. This country gives you opportunity if you want to take it, so don't blame your environment. I look down on people who use their environment as a crutch.

  Vince McMahon

  Country, Opportunity, People

  "Meltzer says he hears HHH and Vince got beef", rebrn.com. March 9, 2016.

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• Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Legs, I Can

  Anthony Bourdain‏ @Bourdain, twitter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Every breath I take becomes deeper, and I become more confident of myself without my crutches. The lies I've filled my body and soul with aren't needed anymore. They're not welcome. I choose to live, not just exist.

  James Hetfield

  Lying, Soul, Body

  "Metallica's James Hetfield Calls Rehab Challenging, Gratifying" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. February 21, 2002.

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• Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional crutch, wishful thinking? The ax cuts both ways. Perhaps atheists are rejecting God because they've had a bad relationship with their father. Instead of inventing God, have atheists invented non-God? Have they invented atheism to escape some of the frightening implications of God's existence? Think about it.

  Greg Koukl

  Atheist, Father, Cutting

  "Is Atheism a Crutch?". str.typepad.com. March 24, 2010.

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• And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Fall, Autumn

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• Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

  J. I. Packer

  Jesus, Prayer, Lame

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• I’m not going to pick her up and carry her screaming to the basement,” Trent said. “It’s a workday. Besides, she has a crutch.” “Crutch or no, she’s hurt!” Ceri protested. “I mean,” Trent said intently, “she can hit me with it if I do something she doesn’t like.

  Kim Harrison

  Hurt, Mean, Said

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• If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

  Jeannette Walls

  Strong, Eye, Exercise

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• Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Wise, Feet, Immaturity

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• [Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your hand, ready for him. For you are a leader-don't you know it? I don't, surely, need to tell you?-And that is what leadership means. It means fortifying the fainthearted and giving them the two sides of your tongue while you are at it. It means suffering weak love and schooling it till it matures. It means giving up you privicies, your follies and your leasure. It means you can love nothing and no one too much, or you are no longer a leader, you are led.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Giving Up, Mean, Men

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• The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

  Emile Zola

  Legs, Lourdes, Difficulty

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• I don’t intend to use beer as a crutch and drink until I pass out. So advice, keep an eye on that so you can get in there and get yourself drunk sex before it turns unpretty and drunk sex ends with me puking and / or passing out during the act.

  Kristen Ashley

  Sex, Eye, Beer

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• Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- “I see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus.

  Alistair Begg

  Jesus, Eye, Men

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• Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any one of us that doesn't need a crutch.

  Norman Mailer

  Love, Simple, Mind

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  I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

  Shane Koyczan

  Acceptance, Imperfection, Joy

  FaceBook post by Shane Koyczan from Apr 08, 2013

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• At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Cutting, Dedication

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• Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are.

  James Alison

  People, Giving, Enemy

  James Alison (2010). “Broken Hearts and New Creations: Intimations of a Great Reversal”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

  George Washington

  Moving, Government, Half

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.306

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• Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

  Harry Browne

  Government, Hands, Cripples

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• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only when all props and crutches are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest hope of security, does it become possible for us to experience an archetype that up till then had lain hidden behind the meaningful nonsense played out by the anima. This is the archetype of meaning, just as the anima is the archetype of life itself.

  Carl Jung

  Order, Broken, Psychology

  "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious".

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