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• The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as
  obvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man's emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Men, Emotional, Long

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.32, Penguin

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• On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

  Joe Rogan

  Long, Knees, Operations

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• I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting 'hallelujah's Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back — and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!

  Malcolm X

  Grateful, Men, Thinking

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

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• Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Pain, Love You, Emotional

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• To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

  Saadi

  Truth, Lying, Cutting

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• A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.

  Adrian Rogers

  Jesus, Helping Others, Needs

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• A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Self Injury, Injury

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.94

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• A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

  Adrienne Rich

  Cutting, Flesh, Self Injury

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

  Olive Schreiner

  Tree, Youth, Trouble

  Olive Schreiner (2014). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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• The psychic scars caused by believing that you are ugly leave a permanent mark on your personality.

  Joan Rivers

  Believe, Psychics, Personality

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• Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Tombstone, Heart, Joy

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• Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

  Maggie Grace

  Actors, Done, Littles

  "Q&A: 'Lockout' first daughter Maggie Grace on being an unlikely action star" by Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. April 12, 2012.

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• We all have scars [...] Better by far for them to be worn on the outside.

  David Gemmell

  Worn

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 3, 1985.

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• He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Finals, Razors, Tongue

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• Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.

  William Shatner

  Pain, Party, Divorce

  William Shatner (2009). “Up Till Now”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud; how the black cord makes of them a single fabric that nothing can tear or mend.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Love, Two, People

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Of Gravity & Angels”, p.34, Wesleyan University Press

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• Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.

  James Nicoll

  Fire, Critical Moments, Knows

  Usenet article <dgpfn2$h61$1@reader1.panix.com>, 2005.

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• War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

  James Blunt

  War, Generations

  "Some Kind of Trouble and More". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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• A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dog, Father, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Aravind Adiga from Nov 30, 2013

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• When it's all over I won't miss the bruises he gave me to impress girls, or the occasional scar which will give me a story to tell my grandchildren, but I'll definitely miss the pranks and the laughing and all the making fun of each other. I'll miss the funky advice he gives me about everything - football, girls, video games, clothes. Most of all, I'll miss having an older brother.

  Skandar Keynes

  Girl, Football, Brother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ye living soldiers of the mighty war,
  Once more from roaring cannon and the drums
  And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes;
  Forget the halting limb, each wound and scar:
  Once more your Captain calls to you;
  Come to his last review!

  Richard Watson Gilder

  War, Wounds And Scars, Soldier

  Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

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• The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Fighting, Neurosis

  Erich Fromm (1947). “Man for Himself”

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• She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark blue and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

  John Green

  Falling In Love, Cancer, Eye

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

  Claude Pepper

  Retirement, Security Systems, Elderly

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• I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

  John Green

  Wish, Left, Fault In Our Stars

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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