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• United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars.

  Thomas Campbell

  Stars, Mean, Two

  Thomas Campbell, J. Logie Robertson (1884). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.340, Ardent Media

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• My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.

  William Ellery Channing

  Stars, Men, Air

  William Ellery Channing (1843). “Poems”

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• There are many different causes of the scarring. Viruses are common. Hepatitis B, hepatitis C, what we call autoimmune diseases where the body attacks the liver itself such as primary biliary cirrhosis is an autoimmune disease; sclerosing cholangitis is an autoimmune disease; and so those diseases where the liver is being destroyed by either the virus or an autoimmune disease, it can only scar, and why it doesn't regenerate has to do with the fact that there is this ongoing scar tissue that blocks that regeneration.

  John Roberts

  Block, Viruses, Different

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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• I saw bubbling lava, and at the same moment I saw a reflection of a certain kind of inner turmoil. Because at the moment I looked into that crater, I slipped, and a large piece of volcanic rock took a hole out of my leg. The scar is still there 20, 30 years later. But it's one of those things that reminds you of the kind of risk or the kind of moment in order to push yourself.

  Julie Taymor

  Reflection, Rocks, Order

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't want to die without scars.

  Brad Pitt

  Want, Wanting To Die, Dies

  "Fictional character: Tylor Durden". "Fight Club", www.theguardian.com. 1999.

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• I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out of my ass. To some that's just rough sex. Some would read that sentence and be turned on by that: the 51st Shade of Gay.

  Kevin Sessums

  Sex, Gay, Blood

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.

  Tobsha Learner

  Lashes, Humiliation, Deeper

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• Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained - if you ate animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.

  Harper Lee

  Cat, Eye, Animal

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• We talk about how we think, believe, suspect Michael Jackson treats children. We don't talk about how WE treat child stars. Child stars are abused by the culture. And what's more treacherous than when the rewards of child stardom issue from the abuse?
  Child stars are performers above all else. Whenever their triumps, they are going to make sure we see everyone of their scars. That's the final price of admission.

  Margo Jefferson

  Stars, Children, Believe

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• Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.

  R. W. Apple

  Fighting, Echoes, Two

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• People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound "heals" it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, "Let the scarring begin.

  George Carlin

  Memories, Healing, People

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• The Lord will not wish to count my trophies, but my scars.

  Frank Laubach

  Wish, Trophies, Lord

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• I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Mistake, Parent

  Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Bears, Mines, Happens

  Sarah J. Maas (2012). “The Assassin and the Desert: A Throne of Glass Novella”, p.305, A&C Black

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• I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Writing, Thinking, Secret

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• Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Running, Nice

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.75, Tuttle Publishing

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• Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Night, Sky

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.816, Delphi Classics

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• Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

  Jodi Picoult

  Love You, Heart, People

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hair, Hands, People

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• Don’t ever sell yourself short. Stand tall. Never be ashamed of who you are. You are beautiful, you are loved. You are needed. You are worth it. Promise me you won’t forget that. Promise me you won’t let your scars define who you are. Let your trials shape you. Let your victories humble you.

  Jennifer Nettles

  Beautiful, Humble, Promise

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• Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

  Alan Cranston

  Running, Nuclear Disarmament, Defense

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• But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house. [...] A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Baby, Children

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• So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

  Rich Mullins

  Real, Promise, Littles

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

  Stephen Dorff

  Mean, Thinking, Scary

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• Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Hurt, Grief, Suffering

  Jesmyn Ward (2013). “Men We Reaped: A Memoir”, p.140, A&C Black

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