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• Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Fate, World, Timing

  FaceBook post by J. Courtney Sullivan from Mar 11, 2016

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• The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority.

  Michael Hastings

  Attitude, Team, Military

  "The Runaway General: The Profile That Brought Down McChrystal" by Michael Hastings, www.rollingstone.com. June 22, 2010.

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• Since the date, 1776, is placed on the bottom course of the pyramid [on the Great Seal], and since the number 13 has been so important in the history of the United States and in the symbols of the seal, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the thirteen courses of the pyramid may represent thirteen time-periods of thirteen years each.

  Paul Foster Case

  Years, Pyramids, Numbers

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• I just want to continue adding walls to my craft as an artist and business man. I never want to cap off, I never want to seal it. I just want to keep adding walls and keep on going as high as it can go, but I'm never gonna be boxed in, can't. That's when you lose because when you box yourself in, you know you get comfortable, you start getting complacent. I can't be like that.

  Eskeerdo

  Wall, Artist, Men

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Training, Navy, Way

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• I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs, I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.

  James Joyce

  Dog, Winter, Whales

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• In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and liberty; in proportion to the solemnity of acts, proclaiming the will authenticated by the seal of the people, the only earthly source of authority, ought to be the vigilance with which they are guarded by every citizen in private life, and the circumspection with which they are executed by every citizen in public trust.

  James Madison

  People, Liberty, Citizens

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• Large factory trawlers indiscriminately scrape and haul up everything from the ocean floor, along with everyone unfortunate enough to get caught in the nets. Roughly one-third of what is dragged in is not profitable fish, but other sea animals, including turtles, whales, dolphins, seals, and seabirds. These beings are referred to by the fishing industry as "by-catch." Severely traumatized and wounded, these animals are subsequently thrown back into the ocean, dead or dying.

  Sharon Gannon

  Ocean, Animal, Turtles

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

  Delia Sherman

  Animal, Swans, Ideas

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'

  Maria Shriver

  California, America, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I went to visit a friend of mine, a writer name Troy Seal, a songwriting fool. He's had a ton of hits. He said, "I've got a thing I'm stuck on." I can hear the wind a blowin' - he already had that. You and me lord, we had it all. He only had that first verse. For some reason he was stuck. But that's how that came about.

  Donnie Fritts

  Wind, Names, Fool

  "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 08, 2015.

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• Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.

  James A. Baldwin

  Boys, Keys, Order

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• Humid seal of soft affections,
  Tend'rest pledge of future bliss,
  Dearest tie of young connections,
  Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

  Robert Burns

  Kissing, Ties, Snow

  Robert Burns (1859). “The poetical works and letters of Robert Burns”, p.186

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• When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Together, Lasts, Contradicting

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Lying, Men, Years

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.75, Bertrand Russell

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• A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!

  Edmond Rostand

  Fashion, Flower, Taken

  Edmond Rostand (1899). “Cyrano de Bergerac”

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• Every once in a while a voice appears that cuts through it all. As Hemmingway said, 'the truth has a certain ring to it.' When you hear the voice of Billy Vaughn you will hear the voice of an American manthe type of American who produces a Navy SEAL.

  Michael Savage

  Cutting, Voice, Navy

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• Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Real, Decision, Voting

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy

  George Mackay Brown

  Boys, White, Water

  George Mackay Brown (1977). “Pictures in the cave”

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• The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

  William H. Gass

  Book, Tails, Gone

  "Habitations of the Word: Essays". Book by William H. Gass, www.nytimes.com. 1984.

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• To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We call them someone with the seven seals of enlightenment, meaning that their gradated perception has past through all the realms.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Yoga, Past

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• The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches ... what do you think?' I said, 'Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.'

  Winston Churchill

  Thinking, Eagles, Arrows

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• Set we forward; let
  A Roman and a British ensign wave
  Friendly together. So through Lud's town march,
  And in the temple of the great Jupiter
  Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts.
  Set on there! Never was a war did cease,
  Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Book, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.3068, Oxford University Press

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• The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment. Perhaps it's because there's a lot of very cool folklore about it.

  Delia Sherman

  Animal, Facts, Moments

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Chicken nuggets don't die any easier than baby fur seals.

  Ted Nugent

  Baby, Nuggets, Fur

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