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• American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.

  George Santayana

  Powerful, America, Optimism

  George Santayana (1921). “Character & Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America”

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• The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

  Bill Watterson

  Brain, Way, Hobbes

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and, when applied synchronically to the conditions of a bourgeois society that is industrially advanced and constituted as a social-welfare state, they fuse into a clouded amalgam. Yet the very conditions that make the inherited language seem inappropriate appear to require these words, however confused their employment.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Confused, Historical, Employment

  "Space, Place, and Environmental Ethics". Book by Andrew Light, 1997.

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• I was generally pro-bat, except when I was trekking through the dark trying not to think about the dire fate of every horror movie character stupid enough to go into the dark with a flashlight and check the fuses.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Stupid, Character, Fate

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• In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A flame to melt--a wind to freeze; Sad patience--joyous energies; Humility--yet pride and scorn; Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity--reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel--Art.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Art, Hate

  Herman Melville, Robert C. Ryan, Hershel Parker (2009). “Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville”, p.280, Northwestern University Press

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• I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.

  Fynn

  Grief, Blow, Mind

  Fynn (2013). “Mister God, This is Anna”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Feelings, Unity, Enthusiasm

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

  Frank-Walter Steinmeier

  Ukraine, Violence, Lit

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• Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wedding, Strong, Fall

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• Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Light, Bangs, Television

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• In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Sky, Lines, Towns

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• As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Eight, Want, Lobotomy

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.

  John Dos Passos

  Book, Creativity, Adventure

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• They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.

  Jean Genet

  Doing Nothing, Intimacy

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Powerful, Spring

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Cities, Lines, Rhyme

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• Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Couple, Hands, Twists

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Ark angel”, Putnam Juvenile

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• Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.

  Ernst Junger

  Goal, Sparks, Way

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• Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

  Elton John

  Men, Burning, Rockets

  Song: Rocket Man '03

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• I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Blow, Night, Mad

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When they shall paint our sockets gray And light us like a stinking fuse, Remember that we once could say, Yesterday we had a world to lose.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Light, Yesterday, World

  Stanley Kunitz (1974). “The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970”, Harvill Secker

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• Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes, ten or twelve hours later, everything goes with it, all the hidden resentments, all the vain anxieties. The migraine has acted as a circuit breaker, and the fuses have emerged intact. There is a pleasant convalescent euphoria.

  Joan Didion

  Pain, Yoga, Anxiety

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.115, Zola Books

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• It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girl's identity to appearance.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Rainbow, Identity

  "The ghettoisation of pink: how it has cornered the little-girl market" by Peggy Orenstein, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• ...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Government, Burning, Following

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1959). “Up from Liberalism”

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• For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call God?--and the string is what we don't know, our Ignorance, and the trail of ash, which, if a gust of wind does not come, keeps the structure of the string, is History, man's Knowledge, but it is dead, and when the fire has burned up all the string, then man's Knowledge will be equal to God's Knowledge and there won't be any fire, which is Life. Or if the string leads to a powder keg, then there will be a terrific blast of fire, and even the trail of ash will be blown completely away.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Ignorance, Men, Fire

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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