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• we do not explain my husband's insane abuse
  and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled
  or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead.
  Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

  Anne Sexton

  Family, Husband, Father

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, People, Patriotism

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.191

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• I'm one of those women who's not to be messed with. I'm very opinionated and boisterous at times. I'm also kind and humble. I know when to fold and when to hold and that's important. If my edge scares you, then you have a choice to remove yourself.

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Humble, Choices, Scare

  "First Lady LisaRaye McCoy-Misick: 'I'm Going to Get Through This'". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

  Jeremy Collier

  Envy, Despair, Arms

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• Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, America, Python

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.496, Lulu.com

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• John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Leisure, Legs

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 230 (31 March 1778)

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• The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, Gun

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• These wickets of the soul are plac'd so high,
  Because all sounds do highly move aloft;
  And that they may not pierce too violently,
  They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft.
  For should the voice directly strike the brain,
  It would astonish and confuse it much;
  Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain.
  That it the organ may more gently touch.

  Sir John Davies

  Moving, Voice, Soul

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• We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love Is, Circles, World

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• I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person. Much to the chagrin of a lot of African-American people that I meet, because it's almost like there's a betrayal, an intrinsic betrayal: "Don't do that, brotha, we need you. We need you here, in this fold."

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Betrayal, People, African American

  "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview With Jesse Thorn, tvclub.kinja.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

  Bert Lance

  Good Day, Names, House

  1993 Of the Bert Lance Toe Test which he devised for his nine months in the Carter administration. In the Washington Post, 6 Oct.

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• Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Creativity, Wings, Doe

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• Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it out of base camp if you do that. The secret is two fold: make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Journey, Thinking, Climbing

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• Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous,
  Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water,
  Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter;
  And those she has least use for see her best,
  Their paths grown craven and circuitous,
  Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.

  Philip Larkin

  Daughter, Spring, Flower

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Less Deceived”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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• We . . . exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge . . .

  Pope Paul III

  Exercise, Sheep, Might

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• Saying goodbye to Nina is both bittersweet and beautiful. After six-plus years together, the entire cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries has reached a level of closeness that I don't think any of us ever expected. Nina is excited to spread her wings, get some rest, travel the world and also take it by storm, and we support her a thousand-fold. We will miss Nina and the four hundred characters she played, but we look forward to the insane and exciting challenge of continuing to tell stories of our Salvatore Brothers and our much-loved and gifted ensemble.

  Julie Plec

  Beautiful, Goodbye, Brother

  "Vampire Diaries: Nina Dobrev Won't Return for Season 7" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 6, 2015.

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• Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Friendship, Sweet, Rose

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• There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days,
  No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise:
  Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
  But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sweet, Morning, Real

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• I would like to work with Paul McCartney in the future. Or Brian Seltzer. But I guess like, like I said - I'm into The Strokes, like Ben Folds, Eliot Smith, the Beatles are my favorite, the Beach Boys, Queen.

  Drake Bell

  Beach, Queens, Boys

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• In the '90s, when I started, it was still a rough-and-tumble, physical league. You take the hook and holding and a little bit of the physicality out of the game, and the speed ratcheted up two-fold. Now you have a split second to make a hit, or decide to pull up. When there's indecision, you're going to make a mistake.

  Chris Pronger

  Mistake, Games, Two

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.

  Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

  Believe, Tired, Meditation

  Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.

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• My mind absorbs things in a funny way. I'm on planes quite a bit and I always take stacks and stacks of magazines and I go through them and tear pages out and fold them up, and they get stuck at the bottom of my backpack or whatever.

  Marc Jacobs

  Mind, Tears, Magazines

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.221, Tara Publishing

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• "The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in," says he, with a grin, "'T the blackbird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be? Jest fold our hands, an' see the swaller An' blackbird an' catbird beat us holler? ... Jest show me that! er prove 't that bat Hez got more brains thans's in my hat, An' I'll back down, an' not till then!"

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Hands, Giving, Bird

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• European children are educated in a narrative of human tolerance every day, and if you want to be sure to prevent a backlash, you should at least think of bringing Muslim children and teenagers into the fold of that narrative of tolerance.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Children, Teenager, Thinking

  "The Interview: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on reforming Islam". Interview with Brian Bethune, www.macleans.ca. April 13, 2015.

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