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• Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.

  Elizabeth Dole

  War, Blow, Iraq

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• When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats.

  Charlie Melancon

  People, Water, Rooftops

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• After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It's been a great run.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Running, Song, Reading

  "ESPN severs ties with Hank Williams Jr". www.cnn.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to the parents of a dying child. It holds up victory over the inevitable and beckons us to crawl further over slicing shards, all the while pulling back, remaining just out of reach. It makes agony out of mere pain by pretending a different outcome could have been. It laughs at mankind's embrace of it after millennia of disappointment.

  Robert Liparulo

  Children, Pain, Disappointment

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• Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed me off, so I decided to put something in front of it to distract them. “I got '16' from a traditional American folk song, where a man is singing about his dead wife and 16 black horses are pulling her casket up to the cemetery. I liked the image of 16 working horses.

  David Eugene Edwards

  Song, Horse, Men

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• One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes me to the very limit of my capabilities. If you feel you can attempt a second set, then you couldn’t have been pulling out all the stops during the first set. It's not pretty, but it works.

  Dorian Yates

  Jobs, Bodybuilding, Stressed

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• My philosophy is that once you get people compelled enough to sit down and play the game, the whole way you make the game successful is by giving them enough unique ways to do things. First, let them deal with pulling levers and things like that for a while. Then after they've mastered that, you give them something else to do, like getting through doorways by blasting them down with a cannon Next, you give them a monster-finding quest, followed by logic problems to figure out. You pace it that way. Assorted activities and the diversity of activities are what makes a game rich in my mind.

  Richard Garriott

  Philosophy, Successful, Unique

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• I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Power, Levers, Very Good

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• I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.

  Morris Chestnut

  Teeth, Kind, Sometimes

  "Morris Chestnut "Not Easily Broken". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 30, 2009.

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• Fighting is not internal, but it can be very spiritual. Everything acting is internal. One of my problems in making the transition is pulling back, but I'm working on it.

  Roddy Piper

  Spiritual, Fighting, Acting

  "Rowdy Roddy Piper Lends his Voce to Green Lantern: Emerald Knights". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. May 5, 2011.

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• An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm. It multiplies by pulling itself in two, without permanently diminishing the original. So with words. A meaning may develop on the periphery of the body of meanings associated with a word, and shortly this tentacle-meaning has grown to such proportions that it dwarfs all other meanings.

  Charlton Laird

  Moving, Two, Body

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• In all the good Greek of Plato
  I lack my roastbeef and potato.
  
  A better man was Aristotle,
  Pulling steady on the bottle.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Plato, Philosophical, Men

  John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

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• Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

  John Green

  Hurt, Pain, Attention

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.97, Penguin UK

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• I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider!

  Rick Riordan

  Spiders, Strings, Said

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• I could see how easy it would be to fall into loving Bella. It would be exactly like falling: effortless. Not letting myself love her was the opposite of falling—it was pulling myself up a cliff-face, hand over hand, the task as grueling as if I had no more than mortal strength.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fall, Hands, Opposites

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• Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find the experience more and more unsettling and disagreeable. You become touchier, more fearful, more irritable than ever. The more you try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.

  Pema Chodron

  Peace, Home, Doors

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm not saying find someone and ask them if you can mow their grass for ten dollars. I'm saying find weeds that need pulling and pull them.

  Andy Andrews

  Weed, Dollars, Needs

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. June 11, 2009.

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• When anything is easy, it becomes very monotonous for me. But, if I can find something that is really going to take all of my body and all of my mind to really even come close to pulling off, that sounds like fun.

  Dane DeHaan

  Fun, Mind, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a story in Zen circles about a man and a horse. The horse is galloping quickly, and it appears that the man on the horse is going somewhere important. Another man standing alongside the road, shouts, «Where are you going?» and the first man replies, «I don't know! Ask the horse!» This is also our story. We are riding a horse, and we don't know where we are going and we can't stop. The horse is our habit energy pulling us along, and we are powerless.

  Nhat Hanh

  Horse, Men, Circles

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.24, Harmony

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• A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.

  Charles Haddon

  Lying, Boots, World

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• Voting is a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you. Why should we trust any of these people? None of them ever deliver on anything. It's always disappointing.

  Mel Gibson

  Fall, Doors, People

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• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strong, Men, Libertarian

  "The Industrial Decalogue" (1916). These "ten cannots" are frequently, but falsely, attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

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• There are times in your life when you feel like the dumbest man on the planet and you’re insecure about something, and then there are times where you feel like, “Hey, I’m a pretty smart guy and I’m pulling it together …”

  Charlie Day

  Smart, Insecure, Men

  Interview with Guillermo Del Toro, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you've half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you're doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Teenage, Names, Feelings

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• Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman - a good wife, pulling the coat tails of her heroic husband, checking his extravagances of speech and action with words of caution and good sense. But without the heroic coat tails to pull, life for both of them would be dull and savorless indeed.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Husband, Men, Wife

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 183, 1958.

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