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• A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs

  Bruce Sterling

  Fall, Tyrants, Noble

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• I was just wondering if you were armed. You want anything? Dagger, maybe?" He opened his own suit jacket just a bit, and Simon saw something long an metallic glinting against the inside lining. "No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.

  Cassandra Clare

  Crazy, Long, Want

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• You touch her, and I will take that dagger at your side and cut your heart out with it. (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Cutting, Your Side

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• Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.

  Yamada Koun

  Passion, Practice, Brave

  Koun Yamada (2005). “The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

  H. G. Wells

  Artist, Wish, Bombs

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8287, Delphi Classics

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• Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.

  Hilary McKay

  Night, Light, Feet

  Hilary McKay (2007). “Caddy Ever After”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

  Agatha Christie

  Past, Gold, Soil

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.

  Norman Cousins

  Home, Practice, Decision

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• It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers must have been a glance of the eye.... It is wonderful how we get about the streets without being wounded by these delicate and glancing weapons, a man can so nimbly whip out his rapier, or without being noticed carry it unsheathed. Yet it is rare that one gets seriously looked at.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, Society

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers”

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• While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Girl, Father, Eye

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.620, Macmillan

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• The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when we think of underhanded politics.

  Tamara Keith

  Thinking, Data, Doe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her regular classes. Because she was teaching, of course, Macbeth, and a number of them had murdered people. The guy who wrote the best paper said, "You do have this, 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?' before you do it, but in my case it was a gun."

  Margaret Atwood

  Teaching, Gun, Class

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

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• I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.

  Spike Lee

  Couple, Racism, Giving

  "Spike Lee Hates Your Cracker Ass" by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, www.esquire.com. October 1992.

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• I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I killed him who loved me with an everlasting love. Oh eyes, why do you refuse to weep when you see Jesus' body mangled and torn? Give vent to your sorrow, Christians, for you have good reason to do so.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Friday, Jesus

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.279, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear.

  Sandra Gulland

  Children, Littles, Way

  Sandra Gulland (2002). “The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B: A Novel”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all the power to upset and offend, are so well made that they’re achieved things. However much they upset you, they also affect you.

  Frederick Seidel

  Upset, Made, Wells

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• When fate throws a dagger at you, there are ways to catch it. If you catch it by the blade, you can harm yourself. But if you catch it by the handle, you can use it to help you fight through the obstacles ahead.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Fighting, Fate

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• Love is the very essence of family life. Why is it that the children we love become so frequently the targets of our harsh words? Why is it that these children who love their fathers and mothers sometimes speak as if with daggers that cut to the quick? "There is beauty all around," only when there's love at home.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger.

  Saddam Hussein

  Kuwait, Iraq, Opponents

  "Saddam Hussein: a political biography". Book by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, 2002.

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• In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

  Jack Valenti

  Struggle, Political, Too Deep

  "What Jack Valenti Taught Us All" by Matt Gerson, www.washingtonpost.com. April 28, 2007.

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• Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart. If you do that, you will be a better driver. There will be fewer accidents but when they happen, they will be fatal.

  Warren Buffett

  Heart, Car, Wheels

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• Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action, the pests of society, and the subtlest homicides in the world; they poison with a tear; and convey a dagger to the heart while they press you to their bosoms.

  Jane Porter

  Heart, Feet, Tears

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• Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection.

  Fukuzawa Yukichi

  Law, Self, Giving

  Yukichi Fukuzawa, Eiichi Kiyooka (1988). “Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese women: selected works”, Univ of Tokyo Pr

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• When I was young I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger, for several years.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fighting, Years, Stage

  "I’m More Like Plutarch than Katniss: A Conversation with Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence". Interview with Lev Grossman, entertainment.time.com. November 21, 2013.

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• You drove a dagger through my back, Elena. It hurt.

  Rebecca

  Hurt, It Hurts

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