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• In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Book, Sunset

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Voice, Sick

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.

  Joss Whedon

  Humanity, News, Enough

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• a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Goal, Wife, Feminism

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.

  Douglas Coupland

  Lakes, Oregon, Mind

  Douglas Coupland (2001). “Miss Wyoming”, p.58, Vintage

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• What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.

  Albert Schweitzer

  War, Realization, Matter

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• And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.

  Mariama Bâ

  Mom, Mother, Night

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• Though I have to admit, I had a good laugh when I realized you thought I was a bloodsucker." He smiles. "Oh, well excuse me. I mean since there are immortals running around, I figure we may as well bring on the faeries, wizards, werewolves, and—" I shake my head. "I mean jeez, you talk about all this like it's normal!

  Alyson Noel

  Running, Mean, Laughing

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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• I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Thinking, Years, Wind

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1998). “Fuel: Poems”, p.131, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Shake the hand that feeds you.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Hands, Healthy Eating

  "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto". Book by Michael Pollan, 2008.

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• Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dignity, Habit, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.10, Random House

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• A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.

  Azar Nafisi

  Believe, Usual, Moral

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.129, Random House

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• Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.

  Rob Bell

  Hurt, Blood, Sky

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.76, Harper Collins

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• Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

  Ken Baumann

  Mistake, Reputation, Hard

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• Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland.

  Roger Ebert

  Believe, Heart, Names

  Roger Ebert (2013). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.284, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, Grace, Saint

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• We shake with joy, we shake with grief.
  What a time they have, these two
  housed as they are in the same body.

  Mary Oliver

  Grief, Two, Joy

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.13, Beacon Press

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• Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.

  Alois Podhajsky

  Teacher, Horse, Art

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• When you put your feet on the floor every morning, Hell should shake!

  Joyce Meyer

  Morning, Feet, Hell

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• Life can be dangerous; just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is.

  Ann Wilson

  Making Money, Bliss, Boundaries

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• An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to a brass ornament, the hands begin to shake. If it is changed to gold, he or she squints as if going blind. The abilities do not deteriorate, but belief in them does, as he or she allows the supposed value of an external reward to cloud the vision.

  Zhuangzi

  Archer, Clouds, Hands

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• The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder.

  Rumi

  Love, Strong, Wings

  Jalal al-Din Rumi (2010). “Mystical Poems of Rumi”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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• Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

  T. S. Eliot

  Simple, Hands, Simplicity

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.453, Faber & Faber

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• You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Anger, Hands

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• In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Jobs, Ocean

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