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• PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Adults, Males, Pants

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• The Bookshop has a thousand books,
  All colors, hues, and tinges,
  And every cover is a door
  That turns on magic hinges.

  Nancy Byrd Turner

  Book, Doors, Color

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• Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fall, Autumn, Leafs

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• Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such is the will of nature...

  Anton Chekhov

  Progress, Way, Youth

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Always Wrong

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• Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.

  Miriam Toews

  Life, Understanding, Stones

  FaceBook post by Miriam Toews from Jul 07, 2011

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• Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

  William Shakespeare

  Crooks, May, Knees

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.846

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• The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.

  George Herbert

  Heard

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.329

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• Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

  John Milton

  Moving, Heaven, Sound

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.332

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• I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of... What you don't know know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist... If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Hurt, Real, Book

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Heart, Doe

  Martin Luther (2018). “The Bondage of the Will”, p.20, Ambassador International

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• Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

  Ian Stewart

  Lying, Science, Conclusion

  Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen (1999). “Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• Noon - is the Hinge of Day-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Noon

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1205, Delphi Classics

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• Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.

  Walter Bender

  Cutting, Simplicity, Helpful

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• As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Country, People, Quality

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• Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Rights, Political, Care

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• But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Dream, Twilight, Sleep

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall; On quiet hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call. Along the lintel are green leaves, Beyond, the light lies still; Very weary and willing feet Go over that sill. There is nothing to trouble any heart; Nothing to hurt at all. Death is only an old door In a garden wall.

  Nancy Byrd Turner

  Hurt, Wall, Lying

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• He didn't try to take the net off its hinges with that header.

  Andy Townsend

  Football, Trying

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• As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for [48] years I've had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off our backs, to oil the closet door hinges, to change prejudiced hearts and minds, and to show that gay love is good for us and for the rest of the world too. It's hard work---but it's vital, and it's gratifying, and it's often fun!

  Barbara Gittings

  Country, Fun, Teenager

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• There's a real danger in doing a sequel. There are some benefits, but that all hinges on how well you execute. Quite frankly, most sequels don't execute well

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Real, Benefits, Danger

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• Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.

  Eric Maisel

  Creating, Quality, Chance

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.158, Penguin

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• Our entire case as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rests on the validity of this glorious First Vision. ... Nothing on which we base our doctrine, nothing we teach, nothing we live by is of greater importance than this initial declaration. I submit that if Joseph Smith talked with God the Father and His Beloved Son, then all else of which he spoke is true. This is the hinge on which turns the gate that leads to the path of salvation and eternal life.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Father, Son

  "What Are People Asking about Us?" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. November 1998.

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• For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Philosophy, Moving, Destiny

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar

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• I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Decision, Nerd, Important

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