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• The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.

  Studs Terkel

  Funny, Jobs, War

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• pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Lonely, War, Moving

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• Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.

  Dinty W. Moore

  School, Past, Self

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• The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

  Burl Ives

  Spring, Wind, Long

  Burl Ives (2017). “Wayfaring Stranger”, p.120, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Men, Blood, Want

  "Senator McCain, Please Define 'Free Nation'" by Vanessa Edwards Foster, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2008.

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• Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Responsibility, Light, Issues

  "Kilcher has rare maturity for a young actress" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.

  Brian Andreas

  Dark, Thinking, Doors

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• Sing songs that none have sung, think thoughts that ne'er in the brain have rung,
  Walk in paths that none have trod, weep tears as none have shed for God,
  Give peace to all to whom none other gave,
  Claim him your own who's everywhere disclaimed.
  Love all with love that none have felt and
  Brave the battle of life with strength unchained.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Song, Healing, Thinking

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• Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.

  Michael Fassbender

  Break Up, Breakup, Character

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• If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.

  Karl Marx

  Selfish, Sacrifice, People

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

  Sam Neill

  Character

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• Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

  Cee Lo Green

  Acceptance, Understanding, Tolerance

  "Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could'" by Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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• Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some subsidies? Or the whole East German system, which covered everyone in a security blanket from day care to health care, from housing to education? Some people are beginning to express, if ever so slightly, nostalgia for that Berlin Wall.

  Bob Simon

  Wall, Army, Day Care

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• My mother raised me and there was some painful and difficult times, because she was pursuing a career and also very actively involved in expressing her political views. But, looking back, I wouldnt switch her for a normal mom, even though there were moments when Id come back from school and wish shed just be there in a gingham dress putting dinner on the table. I never had that. But now Im really glad I have her.

  Natasha Richardson

  Mom, Mother, School

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• Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Sacrifice, Men

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• In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Light

  Cyndi Lauper (2012). “Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature

  Christopher Meloni

  Dark, Thinking, Issues

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• The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
  [Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.]

  Sallust

  Light, Quality, Bad Qualities

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• I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are.

  Felicity Huffman

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  "'Mountain' looms over contenders" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2006.

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• A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

  Walter de La Mare

  Dream, Light, May

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• I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.

  Zac Efron

  Guy, Tears, Sometimes

  "What I know about women..." by Zac Efron, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2007.

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• PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die ever and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Animal, Thinking, Stressed

  "Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2010.

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• Pharmacogenomics holds great promise to shed scientific light on the often risky and costly process of drug development, and to provide greater confidence about the risks and benefits of drugs in specific populations. Pharmacogenomics is a new field, but we intend to do all we can to use it to promote the development of medicines. By providing practical guidance on how to turn the explosion of pharmacogenomic information into real evidence on new drugs, we are taking an important step toward that goal.

  Mark McClellan

  Real, Light, Medicine

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• Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.

  Janet Morris

  Adventure, Commitment, Skins

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• A heavenly light more brilliant than all others sheds its radiance everywhere, and he who was begotten before the morning star and all the stars of heaven, Christ, mighty and immortal, shines upon all creatures more brightly than the sun.

  Hippolytus of Rome

  Morning, Stars, Light

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