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• That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Twilight, Sunset

  Sonnet 73

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• What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.

  Joni Rodgers

  Book, Self, Tails

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• They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Blast

  1592-3 Margaret. Richard III, act1, sc.3, l.257-8.

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• Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Travel, Home, Heart

  Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Success, Men, House

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.245

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• Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.

  John Mortimer

  Thinking, Hands, Lawyer

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• Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.

  Virginia Cary Hudson

  Beautiful, Sweet, Spring

  Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”

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• The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

  Steven Moffat

  Enemy, Suspense, Comedy

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• The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

  Tacitus

  Wise, Men, Lust

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• If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Hands, Experience, Icy

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Order, Firsts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
  Holds up each summer day and shakes
  It out suspiciously, lest swarms
  Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.

  Philip Larkin

  Summer, Mother, Hate

  Philip Larkin, “Mother, Summer, I”

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• There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Light, Hands

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

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• And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Heart, Names, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.41, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

  Gelett Burgess

  Friendship, Old Friends, Disillusionment

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British pride: muddle is not an exclusively British institution. Read descriptions, for instance, of the over-organized, wonderfully systematic and "thorough" German war machine during the last war.

  George Mikes

  Funny, War, Humorous

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• Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don't mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. The new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open.

  Stephen Russell

  Mean, People, Boots

  Stephen Russell (1998). “Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: A Spiritual Survival Guide”, Piatkus Books

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• If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

  James K. Polk

  Men, Hands, Political

  Polk, James K. (1910). “The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4”, p.264, Best Books on

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• I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

  Mark Twain

  Media, Talking, Community

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

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• I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

  Wanda Jackson

  Animal, Rooms, Bears

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• Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

  Homer

  Laughter, Sky, Absurd

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.47, Homer

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• Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors,
  And all this our very utmost toil
  Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength
  Whether in oxen or in men, we dull
  The edges of our ploughshares, and in return
  Our fields turn mean and stingy, underfed,
  And so today the farmer shakes his head,
  More and more often sighing that his work,
  The labour of his hands, has come to naught.

  Lucretius

  Work, Mean, Men

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• In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Cancer, Shoulders

  "Elizabeth Edwards Battles Breast Cancer". "Dateline NBC" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. November 21, 2004.

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• I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

  Rita Coolidge

  Song, People, Singers

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.

  Avery Brooks

  Dream, People, Your Dreams

  Star Trek Magazine, Issue #1, September/October 2006.

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