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• Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions about life before the questions have even been asked. This means that beyond just seeing what is wrong with the world, cynics lack the courage to do something about it. The dynamic beneath cynicism is a fear of accepting responsibility.

  John Ortberg

  Pain, Disappointment, Mean

  John Ortberg (2010). “Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)”, p.148, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love - I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again.

  Lauren Conrad

  Opportunity, Losing, Chance

  "Ask Lauren: My Friends are All Engaged!" by Lauren Conrad, laurenconrad.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

  Victor Cruz

  School, College, Climbing

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• When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.

  Dieter Dengler

  Empty

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• If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.

  Vinod Khosla

  Lessons, Healthcare, Ifs

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• I was so high, I needed a stepladder to scratch my own ass.

  Kinky Friedman

  Ass, Needed, My Own

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• The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Money, Waiting, Challenges

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.305, Random House

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• A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are the same.

  Michael Dolan

  Attitude, Failure, Car

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• When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

  Jack Canfield

  World, Want, Steps

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• Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!

  Marianne Williamson

  Positive Thinking, Fractions, Surface

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• When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perseverance, Order, Gumption

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• If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

  Abraham Maslow

  Baby, Children, Home

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• When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

  Kid Koala

  Cutting, Generations, Jam

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• One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.

  John Jay Chapman

  Past, Men, Civilization

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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• Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Success, Wall

  Quoted in Faulkner in the University, ed. Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner (1959)

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• The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.

  Ishmael Reed

  Past, Europe, America

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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• When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.

  Pema Chodron

  Giving, Addiction, Heal

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• Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

  Peter Senge

  Mistake, Expectations, Frustrated

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• No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Long, Matter

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• It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

  Tupac Shakur

  Music, Rose, Looks

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• He's helped me a lot over the years." "I'm sure he has. You scratch his back. He scratches yours." "I have skin allergies. I'm itchy.

  Darynda Jones

  Years, Skins, Allergies

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.117, Macmillan

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• There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.

  Ally Carter

  Wall, Silence, Risk

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• Do you know him well?" I ask.I am too curious; I always have been. "Everyone knows Four," she says. "We were initiates together.I was bad at fighting,so he taught me every night after everyone was asleep." She scratches the back of her neck, her expression suddenly serious. "Nice of him." She gets up and stands behind the members sitting in the doorway. In a second, her serious expression is gone,but I still feel rattled by what she said, half confused by the idea of Four being "nice" and half wanting to punch her for no apparent reason.

  Veronica Roth

  Confused, Nice, Fighting

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• A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

  Shane Koyczan

  Doctors, Do You Love Me

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• But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel ... it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.

  John Green

  Character, Ideas, Special

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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