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• I sucked in the smell of her perfume, Viva La Juicy, and was swept away. La Juicy was part of my oxygen supply, even for the year and a half we were apart.

  Levi Johnston

  Oxygen, Years, Smell

  Levi Johnston (2011). “Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• You can have the most advanced and efflorescent of cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933... Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Wall, Lying, Germany

  "Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics". Book by Charles Krauthammer, 2013).

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• I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive.

  Ron Rash

  Real, Rivers, Feet

  Ron Rash (2009). “Serena”, p.83, Canongate Books

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• The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away

  Colonel Sanders

  Dream, Foundation, Way

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• To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of the earth. They hated Rome and her device, arma et leges, with an inhuman hatred. True, Rome had leges, laws, like the Jews. But in their very resemblance lay their difference; for the Roman laws were merely the practical application of the arma, the arms...but without the arms, the leges were empty formulae.

  Joseph Kastein

  Differences, Rome, Law

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• There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Mistake, False Hope

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.

  Dave Grohl

  Virginia, Band, Craziness

  "Dave Grohl: 'I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. I started praying...'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• We're normally caught up in the current of our thinking, feelings and emotions. With awareness, we can observe it all without being swept away. This gives us access to something much vaster and deeper than our usual compressed minds. All of us can access this. It's not so difficult. With some instruction and practice, anybody can do it.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Thinking, Practice, Giving

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the ones on low-lying islands off the coast of India are being swept away, you know, it's already happening to some people. We happen to be very lucky so far.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Islands, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptor's ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Expression, Sight

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• Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Average, Two, Mind

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• I try to see what the priorities are and not get terribly fussed about things that dont matter. Not be swept away by feelings and emotions, which is my tendency.

  Penelope Tree

  Priorities, Feelings, Trying

  "People thought I was a freak. I kind of liked that" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. August 02, 2008.

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• Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of the written word. But for me the urge toward poetry, that seductive feeling of being swept away by words, was enough for me to overcome that fear that my experiences weren't worthy of poetry itself.

  Allison Joseph

  Cities, Worry, Seductive

  Source: lunchticket.org

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• You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Mother, Children, Grief

  Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband, I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny, finally and ultimately sated ... But enough about the pork.

  Roseanne Barr

  Girl, Husband, Passion

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• We have consciousness and rational powers but unless you're willing to spend the time to gain control of yourself, gain control of your emotions, to think deeply about what you want in a year or two, or where you want your business to be, you're going to be swept away by every new event that occurs in the course of the day or the week and the small amount of time that you plan, that you address to conscious planning, is never enough to overcome the constant tide of emotions and new things happening.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Real, Needs, Opera

  "Rufus Wainwright on Passion, Opera and Taking Care of the Earth". Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Without that thick skin and a clear vision of what it is you want to do, what it is you know you want to do, it can be really easy to get out here and get lost and swept away in whatever is going on. You really have to be steadfast in the mind for sure.

  Stephen Boss

  Mind, Vision, Skins

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• All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

  William Ellery Channing

  Determination, Lying, Self

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• People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.

  Alice Waters

  Integrity, Years, Roots

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

  Karl Marx

  Establishment

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• The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Real, Struggle

  Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., April 20, 1961.

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• Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Falling In Love, Reading, Writing

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.164, Penguin

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• In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told.

  Terence McKenna

  Silence, Darkness, Mind

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• Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Slavery, Constitution

  Cooper Union Address, delivered 27 February 1860, New York, NY

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