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• For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Tears, Misfortunes Of Others

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1942). “Cicero: De oratore ...”

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• A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Tears, Trouble

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• I've been a witness to unfairness in society all my life. To the conditions under which my mother worked all her life, working in an industrial weaving shed in the north of England. And it has been this feature of unfairness that has motivated me in all of my political thinking.

  Patrick Stewart

  Mother, Thinking, Political

  Source: time.com

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• The American people have on many occasions been willing to shed their own blood for a noble cause, like when hundreds of thousands of Americans participated in the fight against fascism in Europe, and other causes. There are many good people there, and the Cuban people know the American people, we have many examples of solidarity from the American people in every stage of the Cuban people's fight for independence.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Fighting, Blood, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Passion, Self, Blood

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• Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Joy, Soul

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• I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.

  Claire Danes

  Teenager, Waiting, Knows

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• As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about...

  Scarlett Johansson

  Eye, Different, Spotlight

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.

  Mark Leibovich

  Light, People, Psychology

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• Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

  Hector Tobar

  Skins, World, Layers

  Héctor Tobar (2011). “The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel”, p.257, Macmillan

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• I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I'm pretty!

  Kristen Taekman

  Tools, May, I May Not Be

  "Kristen Taekman Takes Full Credit For Her 'Phony' Tagline". Interview with April Walloga, gotham-magazine.com. April 17, 2014.

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• Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

  Caroline Stevermer

  Light, Hands, Safety

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Stars, Rain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2003). “Nature and Other Writings”, p.177, Shambhala Publications

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• To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Self, Mosaics, Pieces

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• The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate.

  Roger Angell

  Home, Feet, Two

  Roger Angell (2013). “Season Ticket”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• The Jews caused us a great injustice, the greatest injustice. They have expelled our people, stolen our land, shed our brothers' blood, and are still shedding blood, and there should be no contact between them and us. We will not agree to meet with them until our problem with the Zionist entity and those Westerners and Christians who support them, is solved.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Christian, Brother, Blood

  "Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi against Including Jews in Dialogue between Religions". MEMRI TV, May 2004.

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• Everybody's problem is not yours, regardless of marriage and relationships, and I think women sometimes have to shed "what we think it should be" and address "what it is".

  Tichina Arnold

  Thinking, Problem, Sometimes

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.

  Bell Hooks

  Meaningful, Women, Home

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.61, Routledge

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• I've often looked at the extremes as a way to shed light on the mainstream. Even though everybody says, "Money doesn't buy you happiness," I don't think that that's the principle by which people live. If you talk to kids and ask them what they want to be when they grow up, they say, "Rich and famous," but being rich and famous is not a job.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I just wanted to shed everything and do the things I really wanted to do. All the things I was scared of, I just wanted to try. It was like a clearing.

  Jillian Hervey

  Trying, Scared, Wanted

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.

  Boris Pasternak

  Spring, Fall, Sadness

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• This shed does not contain me.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Doe

  Game from DVD version of Bewilderness,

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• The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Gun, Unity

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• The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Blood, Benefits, Individual

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• History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

  Ken Burns

  Halloween, Light, Challenges

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