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• THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Revenge, Ideas, Soul

  Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.848, Library of America

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• Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Childhood, Victory

  "Imaginary Homelands". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1991.

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• I left the clinic in a daze that had nothing to do with my head injury. Clear up in a week or so? How could Dr. Olendzki speak so lightly about this? I was going to look like a mutant for Christmas and most of the ski trip. I had a black eye. A freaking black eye. And my mother had given it to me.

  Richelle Mead

  Mother, Eye, Black

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at people, designed to cause injuries. Vietnam, nuclear weapons, police out of control are intentional forms of violence. The violence from the Right is aimed directly at people and the violence from the Left is aimed at institutions and symbols.

  George Carlin

  Real, People, Police

  George Carlin (2009). “Last Words”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth.

  Meg Rosoff

  Heart, Persistence, Boys

  Meg Rosoff (2008). “What I Was”, p.41, Penguin UK

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• I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a head injury. I could be in serious trouble and so could she.'" "What did she say?" "She hit me on the head with the rock again," Ford responded curtly. "I think i can confirm that was my daughter." "Sweet kid." "You have to get to know her," said Arthur. "She eases up, does she?" "No, but you get a better sense of when to duck.

  Douglas Adams

  Daughter, Sweet, Kids

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• To our brothers and sisters in harm’s way, we say that we pray for you. We pray that the Lord will watch over you and preserve you from injury and that you may return home and pick up your lives again. We know that you are not in that land of blowing sand and brutal heat because you enjoy the games of war. The strength of your commitment is measured by your willingness to give your very lives for that in which you believe.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Brother, War, Believe

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• Squirrelflight rested her tail on his shoulder, urging him to lie still until his injuries could be treated. Brambleclaw led Stormfur and Brook up to Firestar. The Clan leader's eyes stretched wide in surprise. "Stormfur...and Brook! What are you doing here?" "There'll be time to explain later," Stormfur meowed. "For now, Firestar, put us to work.

  Erin Hunter

  Lying, Eye, Leader

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• It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Law, Skills

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.126, Xist Publishing

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• It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." (Jace)

  Cassandra Clare

  Jace, Cologne, City Of Glass

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.956, Simon and Schuster

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• Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Balance, Trying, Ada

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.414, Faber & Faber

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• To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?

  Henry James

  Stupid, Thinking, Suffering

  Henry James (2013). “The Essential Henry James Collection”, p.921, eBookIt.com

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• There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.

  Cassandra Clare

  Bleeding, Kind, Internals

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• The man walked past me and stopped, observing the blood running down my neck. "Your injury. Let us tend to it." He looked out through the open doorway and silently gestured to someone out there. "Our world," he said, "is far more advanced than yours. For reasons you'll understand shortly." A thin, bony, naked woman entered the room, carrying two small, white kittens. She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. "There," said the large man. "The kittens will make your sad go away.

  David Wong

  Running, Cat, Past

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• This made no sense to me, probably because I speak English and have never had a head injury.

  Tina Fey

  Speak English, Head Injuries, Made

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• The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.

  Aberjhani

  Country, Jobs, Freedom

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• Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Nike, Epidemics

  Christopher McDougall (2009). “Born to Run”, p.179, Vintage

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• After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of them would come. So close were we, the seven of us, that no childhood injury went unnoticed, no slight, real or imagined, went unaddressed, no hurt was endured without comfort.

  Juliet Marillier

  Hurt, Real, Doors

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Oh, I have feelings for him, all right. I'd like to put him in the ground myself, believe me. Still, it would be wrong. Promise me." "Fine. I promise I won't kill him." He said it too easily. My eyes narrowed. "Promise me right here and now that you will also never cripple, maim, dismember, blind, torture, bleed, or otherwise inflict any injury to Danny Milton. Or otherwise stand by while someone else does as you watch." "Blimey, that's not fair!" he protested

  Jeaniene Frost

  Believe, Eye, Feelings

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• I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

  Michael Chang

  Doctors, Littles, Months

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• You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.

  Jaromir Jagr

  Team, Lucky, Good Team

  "What Did Jagr Say?". Philadelphia Flyers Press Conference Transcript, www.hockeybuzz.com. September 17, 2011.

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• The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

  Lou Reed

  Philosophy, Moving, Mind

  Song: Science of the Mind, Album: The Raven

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• The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries.

  James Monroe

  War, Taken, Rights

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• I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhausted or experiencing discomfort with injuries and headaches.

  Christie Rampone

  Fighting, Teammate, Want

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• You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

  David O. Russell

  War, Home, Bipolar

  "Writer-director David O. Russell". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. February 08, 2013.

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