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• Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

  Wolf Kahn

  Cezanne, Information, Painting

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• My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.

  Henry Adams

  Science, Technology, Energy

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.424, Harvard University Press

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• Love's a loaded gun and it shoots to kill.

  Alice Cooper

  Love, Gun, Loaded Gun

  Song: Love's A Loaded Gun, Album: Hey Stoopid, 1991

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• RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Player, Politics, Dice

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (2000). “The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires”, p.235, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

  Irving Azoff

  Gun, People, Shooting

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• When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?

  Frank Costello

  Gun, Differences, Departed

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• I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Essence, Mind, Wire

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky: A Memoir”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• The full squat is a perfectly natural position for the leg to occupy. That's why there is a joint in the middle of it, and why humans have been occupying this position, both unloaded and loaded, for millions of years. Much longer, in fact, than quasi-intellect ual morons have been telling us that it's 'bad' for the knees.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Years, Knees, Perfectly Natural

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• I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Educational, Neglect, Duty

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• He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

  H. L. Mencken

  Political, Steel, Politics

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.227, Vintage

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• My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

  Jan Karon

  Writing, Firsts, Hungry

  Jan Karon (2006). “The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.”, p.72, Penguin

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• Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

  Dwight Gooden

  Giving, Tough, Plus

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• Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Real, Winning, Religion

  Smith, Oswald J., Smith, Paul B., Sybring, Yvonne (1982). “I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith”

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• At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Sleep, Soldier

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• At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.

  C. S. Lewis

  Two, Rabbits, Three

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

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• Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Vocabulary, Race, People

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• Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a small card table, and the only thing on the card table is a revolver loaded with flexible bullets.

  Stephen King

  Cards, Tables, Bullets

  Stephen King (2017). “Skeleton Crew: Stories”, p.671, Simon and Schuster

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• Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Eight, Tools, Purpose

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

  Andre Breton

  Gun, Crowds, Surrealist

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• life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

  Billy Collins

  Eye, Gun, Yellow

  Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.120, Random House

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• Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Past, Grace

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.419, Anchor

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• The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact, once we didn't speak for an entire week because he didn't like the way I loaded his dishwasher...I can't decide if we're exact opposites, or somehow exactly the same except for minor cosmetic differences. I do know that all of his friends hate me and all of my friends hate him. We drive each other crazy in ways that nobody else can even touch. We never bore each other. And we both realize what a rare thing this is.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Hate, Crazy, Fighting

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• Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

  William Saroyan

  Intelligent, Sometimes, Imbecility

  William Saroyan, Leo Hamalian (1990). “Madness in the Family”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• Never drink diet soda. It shows you have no nerve. Only drink real colas, caffeine-packed energy drinks, or vitamin water. Hate champagne because that’s what everyone expects you to love. Energy drinks are the best party drinks. You never get tired, you never get a hangover, and you can make fun of all the loaded people who think they’re clever but are really acting stupid.

  Paris Hilton

  Clever, Fun, Hate

  Paris Hilton (2012). “Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-In-Chic Peek Behind the Pose”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

  Richard Dawkins

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Political

  "Militant atheism". TED2002, www.ted.com. 2002.

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