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• Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.

  Irving Kristol

  Strong, Past, Government

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• It's easy to whip up resentment against anything that smacks with authority. Nobody ever organizes over pan handlers. So even if a cop is black, like the three arrested in Baltimore, or one dead in Mississippi, the hard left uses race as the underlying cause. It's why there are no defiant marches when policemen are killed.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Race, Black, Use

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it?

  Kaki King

  Sound, Why Not, Boxes

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• Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Character, Opportunity, Thinking

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.285

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• If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Conflict, Ass, Grunt

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• The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.

  George Hamilton

  Food, Drug, Cooking

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• Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.

  Owen Feltham

  Business, Grateful, Giving

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• Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?

  Trisha Goddard

  Love You, Technology, Daddy

  "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

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• There have been many happy days and many unhappy ones in my life, but the most important was the day I met my missus, who is sometimes estranged and sometimes not. She got me off smack - although that's not the main reason it's the happiest moment.

  Shane MacGowan

  Important, Unhappy, Happy Day

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Family, Mother, Money

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• Instead of physical objects, (in order to have faith in myself) I have my personal mottos/charms to keep myself motivated and then I smack my chest.

  Yunho

  Order, Have Faith, Motto

  Source: lovetohateme.wordpress.com

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• In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society.

  Fred Reed

  School, Civilization, Ideas

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• At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.

  John Vinocur

  Cutting, Climbing, Wind

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• I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.

  J. B. Smoove

  Fighting, Talking, People

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• I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.

  Marilyn Manson

  Believe, Destiny, Way

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• Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

  Rebecca MacKinnon

  People, Tolerance, Littles

  "Upstart challenges Chinese state TV New Year show" by Min Lee, www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2009.

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• We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

  Dani Shapiro

  Fighting, Car, Baths

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In trying to imagine this world, I kept coming back to Michel Aflaq. He's a Christian Arab, a Syrian, who ends up finding his home in Iraq and is buried there - I was stunned to see his tomb is right smack down in the Green Zone.

  Elliott Colla

  Christian, Home, Iraq

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not going to beat somebody up for talking smack to me, especially another skater.

  Mike Vallely

  Talking, Beats, Smack Talk

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Teeth, Way

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• No matter what's in your head, you go up into any hospital, up to a terminal ward and it'll smack you right back into reality that, "Hey man, whatever you're dealing with, if it's heavy on your heart and head, you're gonna have to let that go, because there, some people are dealing with unavoidable situations that they can't let go." And then they eventually let those go, so, I mean, that's helpful.

  Chuck D

  Letting Go, Mean, Heart

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

  Christopher Camuto

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• There is a little bit of that schoolyard attitude of, it's one thing for a guy your own size to mouth off to you, but if there's a little guy, you should just smack him around. And it's probably bad advice in the schoolyard. It's certainly not a good way to run a foreign policy because even when you are dealing with a non-peer, militarily, war is complicated.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Attitude, War

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When I was in my routine training for the Israeli army as a teenager, they discovered completely by chance that I was a lethal sniper. I could hit the target smack in the center further away than anyone could believe. Not just that, even though I was tiny and not even much of an athlete, I was incredibly accurate throwing hand grenades too. Even today I can load a Sten automatic rifle in a single minute, blindfolded.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Teenager, Believe, Athlete

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• The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.

  Emily Giffin

  Moving, Ordinary Days, Praying

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