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• On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) [This] adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Kings, Children

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• Women have an extraordinary ability to withdraw from the sexual relationship, to immunize themselves against it, in such a way that their men can be left feeling let down and insulted without having anything tangible to complain of.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Feelings, Complaining

  Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.66, Heinemann

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• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Goal, Inanimate Objects

  "The Plot Against People," The New York Times, June 18, 1968.

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• I also told them of the manner in which I had been knocked down and dragged out, and that I didn't consider it a fair fight any how they could fix it. I put the ingredients in the cup pretty strong I tell you, and I concluded my speech by telling them that I was done with politics for the present, and they might all go to hell, and I would go to Texas.

  Davy Crockett

  Strong, Fighting, Texas

  "Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas". Book by Richard Penn Smith, 1836.

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• I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

  Studs Terkel

  Years, Littles, Fairness

  "Give 'Em Hell, Mr. Terkel" by Amy Goodman on AlterNet, May 16, 2007.

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• Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Law, Sitting Down

  "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health". Book by L. Ron Hubbard. 1987 Edition, p. 226,

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• First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.

  Steve Young

  Football, Thinking, Games

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• I like cars. I like travel. I like the idea of people breaking down and I'm the only one who can help them get on the road again. It would be like being a magician. Just open up the hood and cast your magic spell.

  Sam Shepard

  Ideas, People, Car

  Sam Shepard (1976). “Curse of the Starving Class: A Play in Three Acts”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Distance, Lying, Night

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1929.

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• The rock is gonna fall on us," he stood and told the class The professor put his chalk down and peered out through his glasses But he went on and said; "I've seen it, high up on the hill If it doesn't fall this year then very soon it will!

  Harry Chapin

  Fall, Years, Class

  Song: The Rock, Album: Portrait Gallery, 1975

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• My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.

  Miley Cyrus

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  "Miley Cyrus: I like to be the girl no guy can get". Daily Mirror, May 5, 2008.

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• There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.

  Anne Enright

  Death, Husband, Kids

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• I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it.

  Gerald Seymour

  Broken, World, Internet

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Feelings, Doe

  Source: www.slate.com

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• So we can do a better job of homeland security. I can do a better job of waging a smarter, more effective war on terror and guarantee that we will go after the terrorists. I will hunt them down, and we'll kill them, we'll capture them. We'll do whatever is necessary to be safe.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, War, Guarantees That

  "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". The debate at Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Impact, Growth

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• I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

  Abraham Pais

  War, Lying, Silly

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 50), 2000.

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• Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never had. I was always traveling. I had tours. I wanted my kids to settle down, and we kind of did it together.... It was a bumpy transition. There was no director telling me what to do. No script, but I really enjoyed it. I even became president of the PTA. Doing the laundry was a meditative experience. Now, when I start to get nervous and stressed, I go in and start to fold towels.

  Pia Zadora

  Mom, Kids, Years

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• The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached.

  Eben Alexander

  Meaningful, Reality, Data

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• As believers, we are running the race together. We are connected by our faith in God and our love for the world that He sent Christ to save. So if one gets weak, we carry them. We aren't called to stop moving forward. We aren't called to criticize each other. No, we are called to encourage each other, to reach down and carry each other, and to keep moving.

  Jesse Duplantis

  Running, Moving, Race

  FaceBook post by Jesse Duplantis Ministries from May 24, 2015

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• Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.

  Frank Lampard

  Sports, Player, Quality

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• Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Drama, Decision

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• I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!

  Derek Jacobi

  Taken, Animal, Order

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• Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

  Teresa Mummert

  Fighting, Trying, Up To You

  FaceBook post by Teresa Mummert from Apr 19, 2012

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• The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Fall, Reading, Son

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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