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• When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

  Horace

  Gold, Desire, Cups

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• I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.

  Carre Otis

  Doctors, Flu, Antibiotics

  "A Healing Balance" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Nature, Animal, Giving

  Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”

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• From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings.

  Alice Smith

  Music, Thinking, Peaceful

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• I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Beautiful, Grief, Eye

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• Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Rain, Men, Names

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• Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
  Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle,
  . . . .
  A reminiscence sing.

  Walt Whitman

  Bird, Musical, Cradle

  "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" l. 1 (1881)

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• To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

  Joseph Conrad

  Cutting, Reflection, Achievement

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.2835, e-artnow

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• How many men
  Have spent their blood in their dear country's service,
  Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves,
  That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on,
  Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up,
  Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.

  Thomas Otway

  Country, Selfish, Cutting

  Thomas Otway, Roger Boyle Earl of Orrery (1703). “The Orphan, Or, The Unhappy-marriage: A Tragedy, as it is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre”, p.12

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• Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by U.S. Marines.

  Warren G. Harding

  Marine, Men, West Indies

  "Democracy at the Point of Bayonets". Book by Mark Penceny, 1999.

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• The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

  Ted Hughes

  Shocking, Pathetic

  1960 'View of a Pig'.

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• We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans.

  Ann Coulter

  Gay, Issues, Risk

  YouTube Chanel "acu59"/ "Ann Coulter 4 of 5 Why Liberals Are Wrong About Everything", www.youtube.com. December 4, 2008.

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• The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.

  Henry Lawson

  Cutting, Men, Drunk

  Henry Lawson (1984). “A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works, 1901-1922”

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• What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Class, Would Be

  "On the Opposition" by J. V. Stalin, Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1974.

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• I had this lump in my throat, but I couldn't even cry. I thought, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. I was just sitting there in my car that I was two months behind on payments for, knowing I didn't have money for rent.

  Katy Perry

  Two, Knowing, Car

  Interview in Cosmopolitan magazine, August 2009.

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• The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

  Thomas Gray

  Spring, Cuckoos, Harmony

  'Ode on the Spring' (1748) l. 5

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• Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth

  Richard M. Nixon

  Song, Jesus, Peace

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• In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours. The trouble with your robust and full bodied faiths, however, is, that they begin to cut each others throats too soon, and for getting on in the world and establishing a modus vivendi these pestilential refinements and reasonablenesses and moderations have to creep in.

  William James

  Believe, Heart, Cutting

  Letter to John Jay Chapman, April 5, 1897.

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• [I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.

  Gloria Estefan

  Dream, Careers, Cuba

  "Gloria Estefan: 'Like Coming Home, But Not to the Old Cuba'". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2007.

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• I'm gonna kick your teeth so far down your throat you'll be able to chew your own ass out for pissin' me off.

  The Undertaker

  Funny, Teeth, Able

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• He stuck a camera down my throat....ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.....he said I have "Acute Laryngitis".

  Avril Lavigne

  Cameras, Said, Stuck

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• The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

  Vernor Vinge

  Hair, Voice, Scalpels

  Vernor Vinge, Maureen F. McHugh (1993). “The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh”

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• There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

  Ouida

  Men, Applause, Unwilling

  Ouida (1896). “Pipistrello: And Other Stories”

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• There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Apples, Expectations, Way

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.142

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• Let your throat-song
  be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length
  suppliant, at the door.

  Rumi

  Song, Strong, Fall

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.304, Penguin UK

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