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• The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clever, Passion, Reflection

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• I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do

  Mike Tyson

  Talking, Boxing, Guy

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• Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, White, Dust

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.22, Vintage Canada

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• I always tell Cristiano before training, 'If you do stepovers on me, I will break your legs and rip up your shirt.' I have no wish to have the mickey taken out of me all week.

  Patrice Evra

  Soccer, Football, Taken

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• Between last night and this morning, I've been getting a lot of messages from overseas fans along the lines of 'There's an American comic ripping off Bleach!' I'm not that good at English, but I looked at the site and it seems it's a comic by Nick Simmons, the son of Gene Simmons. To be honest, I'm more bothered by the fact that Gene Simmons' son is a comic artist than whether or not it's a rip-off.

  Tite Kubo

  Morning, Son, Artist

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• THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

  Kieron Gillen

  Wicked, Stuff, Detectives

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• It’s one of those things where when you’re training and fighting, you can’t worry about your bills, your mortgage, did you get your girlfriend pregnant, your pet’s cancer, or anything. Nothing else matters but that dude trying to kick you in the face or throw you on your head or trying to rip your arm out of the socket. It becomes a singularity of purpose, which an ADD kid like me rarely gets. I like that moment of clarity in fights, and I truly have that. I lose myself in the details of those 15 minutes and you don’t worry about what people think of you.

  Forrest Griffin

  Girlfriend, Cancer, Kids

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• Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip.

  Ned Sublette

  Jail, Sound, Liberated

  Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.472, Chicago Review Press

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• I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

  Tahir Shah

  Fear, Brain, Bars

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.65, Lulu.com

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• War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Tears, Ruins

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.8, Macmillan

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• ... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls at Pamploma. Yes, you're a pissant who had no hair in your armpits until three years ago - but so what? If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down an smoke that baby.

  Stephen King

  Wisdom, Baby, Growing Up

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• Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Snakes, Two

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle of life-ending pills. When we hurt more than we can bear, when our lives get that dark, it's shocking what we will do to protect ourselves.

  Pamela Ribon

  Hurt, Pain, Dark

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• Surfer girls rip and they are hot

  Alana Blanchard

  Girl, Surfing, Hot

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• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Sight, Smell, Tiptoes

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• It happens the world over - we love ourselves more than we do the one we say we love. We all want to be Number One, we've got to be Number One or nothing! We can't see that we could make ourselves loved and needed in the Number Two, or Three, or Four spot. No sir, we've got to be Number One, and if we can't make it, we'll rip and tear at the loved one till we've ruined every smidgin of love that was ever there.

  Irene Hunt

  Two, Numbers, Self Love

  Irene Hunt (2005). “Up a Road Slowly”, p.29, Penguin

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• There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

  Colin Farrell

  World, Village, Towns

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• Like a stone on the surface of a still river
  Driving the ripples on forever
  Redemption rips through the surface of time
  In the cry of a tiny babe.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Rivers, Forever, Redemption

  Song: Cry Of A Tiny Babe, Album: Nothing But a Burning Light

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• I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.

  Bowie Kuhn

  Baseball, Believe, Men

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• The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Son, Shining

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• If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

  Boris Beizer

  Tests, Bugs, Programming

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• Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world. It claims 25,000 lives a day, 175,000 a week. It sweeps children from the arms of their mothers, robs hundreds of millions of any hope for the future. That tsunami is hunger. Help us end it now.

  Colin Farrell

  Mother, Children, World

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• RIP Sir Alfredo Di Stefano. I will never forget each of the shared moments with such a football legend.

  Sergio Ramos

  Football, Legends, Never Forget

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• For taxpayers, however, it’s [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money to both men and women in the civil service. That’s why the federal government should scrap its ridiculous pay equity law.

  Stephen Harper

  Men, Law, Pay

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