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• How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking, but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Memories, Moving, Book

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• If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.

  RZA

  Self, Definitions, Defeat

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.89, Penguin

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• We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Night, Cities, Bombs

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to "Hamlet" on the grounds that I knew who won.

  Quentin Crisp

  Years, Age, Rooms

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 12, 1968.

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• [Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Laughing, Judging, Advice

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• I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon ... shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.

  Sitting Bull

  Hurt, War, Men

  "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (pp. 79-80), 1993.

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• It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.

  Matthew Henry

  Heaven, Benefits, Influence

  Matthew Henry, Ezekiel Blomfield (1808). “A new family Bible: containing Old and New Testaments”, p.360

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• Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Believe, History

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• Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

  William Benton Clulow

  Time, Distance, Events

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.160

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• Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

  Katha Pollitt

  Husband, Cancer, Men

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• While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

  Katha Pollitt

  Moon, Men, Blood

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• The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.

  Mahmud Tarzi

  Blood, Culture, Red

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• Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that has never before been seen. It's not just the marriage ceremony linking two things; it's the child born from the union.

  Rebecca McClanahan

  Children, Eye, Two

  Rebecca Mcclanahan (2000). “Word Painting”, p.90, Writer's Digest Books

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• O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch
  Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort,
  Relieves the load of poverty, sustains
  The captive, bending with the weight of bonds,
  And smooths the pillow of disease and pain.

  Richard Glover

  Hope, Sweet, Pain

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• A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.

  Velimir Khlebnikov

  Children, Poetry, Understanding

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• We all shed salty tears and shed red blood. All is one.

  Thich Thien-An

  Blood, Tears, Red

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• The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Light, Different, Genius

  Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.6

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• Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

  Ruth Rendell

  Years, Civilization, Car

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• I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it.

  Ashley Greene

  Powerful, Thinking, Light

  "Ashley Greene and Johnny Galecki Talk CBGB, the First Concerts They Ever Went To, Working with Alan Rickman, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 9, 2013.

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• If there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little.

  Billy Graham

  Heaven, Tears, Littles

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• Want to discover the truth about deception in therapy? Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson have collected a formable collection of old pros whose compelling prose sheds light on an important, but previously unexplored, subtext that permeates psychotherapy. Don't fool yourself: The roadmap to avoid being duped is contained within.

  Jeffrey K. Zeig

  Light, Deception, Important

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• If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blood, Calm, Killing

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• In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.

  Krystal

  Heart, Character, Journey

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• We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Years, Finals, Study

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 18 : The Containment of Power and the Dethronement of Politics, 1973.

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• More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Tears, Church

  Thomas Guthrie (1856). “The Gospel in Ezekiel”, p.289

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