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• Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

  Robert Genn

  Depression, Spring, Passion

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• There is nothing wrong with anger. Anger is a beautiful emotion, as valid and rich as joy or laughter. But you have been taught to repress your anger. Your anger has been condemned. If anger is unexpressed, it will slowly poison you. The key is to know how to express your anger. Do not throw it out onto any one. No one is responsible for your anger. Simply express your anger. Beat up a cushion. Go for a run. Express your anger to a tree. Dance your anger. Enjoy it.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Beautiful, Running, Laughter

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• If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'

  Whoopi Goldberg

  People, Let It Go, Littles

  "Making Nice". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. August 20, 2006.

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• Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

  Ellen Kushner

  Book, Fists

  Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.12, Spectra

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• Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

  Carl Sandburg

  Money, Blessing, Roots

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The idle man is the devil's cushion.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Devil, Laziness

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.60

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• Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Men, Knaves

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.17

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• To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

  Alexander Pope

  Ears, Hell, Courtesy

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 149

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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Halloween, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Drinking, Food

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• A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

  Rex Stout

  Jewels, Guests, Hospitality

  Rex Stout (2010). “Death of a Dude”, p.65, Bantam

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• The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Evil, Ease

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.60

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• I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. Im a financial success!

  Joanna Kerns

  Financial, Financial Success, Wanted

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• We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Future, Home, Blow

  "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Here's to Future Days", 2009), (2005 - ).

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• Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Cactus, Starting, Starting Point

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• Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

  Brian Tracy

  Successful, People, Financial

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.27, Jaico Publishing House

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• In the bed of suspicion, no cushion can make a man to sleep

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sleep, Men, Bed

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• The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

  May Sarton

  Stress, Solitude, Balance

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Squirrels, Snow

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Balance, Banking, Erratic

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• But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Dark, People, Forgiving

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• Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you’re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

  Jay Michaelson

  Watches, Generations, Sitting

  Jay Michaelson (2013). “Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment”, p.108, North Atlantic Books

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• Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Hate, Love Is, Better Person

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Best Served Cold: A First Law Novel”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• This bugs me the worst. That's when the husband thinks that the wife knows where everything is, huh? Like they think the uterus is a tracking device. He comes in: "Hey, Roseanne! Roseanne! Do we have any Cheetos left?" Like he can't go over and lift up the sofa cushion himself.

  Roseanne Barr

  Husband, Thinking, Wife

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• Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Thorns, Harm, Strikes

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.40

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