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• In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Reflection, Self, Suffering

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.247, Transaction Publishers

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• To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Sorry, Giving, Done

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.98

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• Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Art, Mean, Men

  Letter to Woodburn Harris (25 February-1 March 1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 487), 1996.

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• Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Men

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• Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it.

  Trent Dilfer

  Sports, Eight, Feet

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• Miniaturization of electronics started by NASA's push became an entire consumer products industry. Now we're carrying the complete works of Beethoven on a lapel pin listening to it in headphones.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Listening, Electronics, Nasa

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.

  George F. Kennan

  Mistake, Principles, Doctrine

  "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq". historynewsnetwork.org. August 08, 2005.

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• You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.

  John Steinbeck

  Rams, Hell

  "Of Mice and Men". Book by John Steinbeck. Chapter 6, p. 101, 1937.

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• Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.

  Margaret Atwood

  Angel, Dancing, Vastness

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.236, Anchor

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• One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming up here in England, but no one's going to have a sign in front of their house. Nobody's going to wear buttons. And in France, same thing. In America I like that people have signs and buttons and bumper stickers. Sometimes you'll smile at someone from a distance, then you'll get up close and you'll see their pin, and you're like, "Oh my god. I wasted a smile on you?"

  David Sedaris

  Distance, America, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I love theatre. It's far more satisfying than film. Sometimes there's a collective sigh from the audience, or it's so quiet you can hear a pin drop. I couldn't believe how easy acting was when there's an audience; after a few previews I almost couldn't do it without one.

  Katie Leung

  Believe, Theatre, Acting

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• I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now the model for all human behaviour, drained of emotion and anger.

  J. G. Ballard

  Loyalty, Hate, Shopping

  J. G. Ballard (2006). “Kingdom Come”, HarperCollins UK

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• Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success.

  Yasser Arafat

  Blessing, May, God Bless You

  Yasser Arafat's Speech at the Arab summit in Beirut, al-bab.com. March, 2002.

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• A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Girl, Mean, Perspective

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• Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Eye, Politics, Conversation

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• [T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

  Israel Zangwill

  Book, Soul, Censorship

  Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.560, Library of Alexandria

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• Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

  Frankie Avalon

  Song, Kids, Dvds

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• The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desire: to 'do something creative' or to earn more money or 'to be free', but they can't really pin down what it is precisely that they want.
  So they drift from one thing to another, enjoying some moments and hating others, but never really finding fulfillment or success. (..)
  This is why it's hard to lead a successful life (whatever that means to you) when you don't know what you want.

  John C. Parkin

  Hate, Mean, Successful

  John C. Parkin (2010). “F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way”, p.105, Hay House, Inc

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• The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask for a scrap of paper for the most trivial use, it may have the confessions of Augustine or the sonnets of Shakespeare, and we not observe it. The student kindles his fire, the editor packs his trunk, the sportsman loads his gun, the traveler wraps his dinner, the Irishman papers his shanty, the schoolboy peppers the plastering, the belle pins up her hair, with the printed thoughts of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Book, Gun

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• I wasn't surprised at all. In fact, I thought, why stop there? Why not add the Big Show, or Chris Jericho, or the whole state of Nebraska for that matter? And don't you think a wrestling ring is a little old school, Lilian? Why not put the match in a shark tank, with real live sharks? Hungry sharks! And the only way to beat your opponent is to stuff him down a shark's throat, and pin the shark. Wouldn't that be a hoot?

  Kurt Angle

  Real, School, Wrestling

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• Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

  Socrates

  Pain, Soul, Body

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• We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

  Mary Robinson

  Letting Go, Government, Looks

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• People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

  Agnes Repplier

  People, Understanding, Feels

  Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-currents”

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• The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, History, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1344, Modern Library

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• It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive. The way Weiss writes - passionately, wittily and with respect for his fellow musicians - attests to his talent and appetite for creativity, and suggests a long, enjoyable career.

  Carlo Wolff

  Writing, Creativity, Careers

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