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• When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Walking Sticks, Tree

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.137, Hackett Publishing

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• Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?

  Donald Barthelme

  Divorce, Thinking, Mud

  Donald Barthelme (1992). “The teachings of Don B.: satires, parodies, fables, illustrated stories, and plays of Donald Barthelme”

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• I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth . The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov . It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Thinking, Muttering, Threat

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• Men aren't allowed to have self-esteem, because we're already supposed to have all the power.... But most men earn less than they want, barely the minimum wage. They're drones. They do stuff they don't want to do to support their families, and they're not sure why they do it. They don't know what they're doing half the time, and any time we stick up for ourselves, we're pigs because we don't know how to articulate our frustrations and joys.

  Tim Allen

  Self Esteem, Frustration, Men

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• I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may necessitate a certain amount of teasing. To shock the reader is something else again. That has to be handled with great care if you're not going to alienate and hurt him, and I'm firmly against that, just as I disapprove of people who dress with that in mind - dye their hair blue and stick safety pins through their noses and so on.

  John Ashbery

  Hurt, Thinking, Hair

  "John Ashbery, The Art of Poetry No. 33". Interview with Peter A. Stitt for The Paris Review, Issue 90, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1983.

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• It is ironic since whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.

  Sergey Brin

  Party, Thoughtful, People

  "Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder, Wishes Obama Wasn’t A Democrat" by Dino Grandoni, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• You could date a stick of dynamite and wouldn't go out with a bang.

  Eminem

  Bangs, Dynamite

  Song: 313, Album: Infinite

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• I make music to make you sick of fake music, hate music like devil worshippin Satan music. So say your prayers, your Hail Marys and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.

  Eminem

  Jesus, Prayer, Hate

  "Song: 'Devil's Night'". 2001.

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• If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.

  Chuck Barris

  Hurt, Disappointment, Creativity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.

  Glen Duncan

  Spontaneous, Strategy, Negotiation

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the biggest statement we can make as men, not as black men, as men, is to stick together and show how strong we are as a group. Not splinter. Not walk. It's easy to protest. The protest will be in our play.

  Doc Rivers

  Strong, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I know that me personally I'm different than anyone else, just like our mothers all tell us we're all very special and unique and we are, and I think if an actor can stick to trying to make the character resemble something from their own spirit it will automatically be unique.

  Chris Pratt

  Mother, Character, Unique

  Source: collider.com

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• I always like to say that no matter what you want to do in life, if you stick with it, you're bound to eventually get good at it!

  Rick Tramonto

  Want, Matter, Ifs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hate, Book, Writing

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

  Gerald Seymour

  Thinking, People, Cameras

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Hands, White

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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• One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

  William J. Clinton

  Hurt, Kids, Parent

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.594, Best Books on

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• I think I want to stick to jewelry. Perfumes are for the bigger media stars, and I think that works well for them. I don't think you have to be a big star to have a jewelry line; if something's pretty, I think people will want to buy it.

  Eva LaRue

  Stars, Thinking, Media

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• I say stick with Mother Nature as much as possible.

  Jack LaLanne

  Mother, Mother Nature

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• I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.

  John Lewis

  Philosophy, Night, Bridges

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• And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.

  Conor Oberst

  Doors, Long, Shadow

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• Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Names, Stones, Bones

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• Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick - and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.

  Isaac Bonewits

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

  "Understanding the Religious Reich or The American and World-Wide Threat of Fundamentalism" by Isaac Bonewits, Version 2.6, www.neopagan.net. 1990.

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• Free men stick their necks out.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, Necks, Free Man

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around... when yellow will be mellow... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.

  Joseph Lowery

  Men, Yellow, White

  Joseph Lowery's Inaugural Benediction, voices.washingtonpost.com. January 20, 2009.

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