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• For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history – perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still, it stands.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Religious, Book, Years

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• Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house with your child. The blood of my parents flowed from their bodies through the floorboards and drenched me while I lay in terror of being torn apart by them. I was only a year older than your child when it happened. My parents gave their lives for mine and I watched as they gave them. So you’ll have to excuse me if I have a hard time thinking good of any animal except those who are dead or caged. (Angelia)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Hard Times, Animal

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• They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.

  Neal Shusterman

  Reflection, Self, Scream

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.

  James Patterson

  Emotional, Fiction, Dry

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• My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Jesus, Children, Names

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• The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

  Saint Augustine

  Long, Soul, Doe

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.151, OUP Oxford

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• New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.

  Moby

  New York, Thinking, People

  "Moby Discusses His ISSUEs". Interview With Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Littles, Path

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.19, Booklassic

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• Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

  Daniel Handler

  Animal, Sound, Awful

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• The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot kill half a fox. Like Monty Python parrot, a fox torn apart by hounds remains dead, deceased and off its perch for ever. Before the fox has been dispatched - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly - it will have suffered the agonies of the pursuit by animals four times its size and four times its strength. The middle way is a compromise that still seriously compromises the welfare of the fox.

  Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison

  Hunting, Animal, Python

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• Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Space, Flying, Use

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1998). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart; and if anyone persists in doing so, he gets for his trouble only imperfect and confused fragments. Yet they do not arrive all together, but they hold each other by the hand so that they follow one another in a natural order which it is dangerous to change, because they refuse to enter in any other way where they are called.

  Marin Mersenne

  Confused, Science, Hands

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• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

  Albert Camus

  Meaningful, Hope, Men

  Albert Camus (1967). “Lyrical and critical”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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• Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.

  Henry Giroux

  Space, Retreat, Orbit

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• All these people that you meet or I meet, there's not a prayer in hell that they're ever going to run for office or major office because if they're that smart, they're also smart enough to know they don't want to take everything that they've built up and have it torn apart by a sensationalized media that's so hungry for any kind of salacious detail that they'll make that the emphasis of the person's life. And then all of sudden, 50, 60 years of hard work and accomplishment go out the window.

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Prayer, Smart

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We can't stand any more! We don't want any more of what we've had to put up with for eight years and many years prior. The country we know and love is being torn apart and rebuilt in ways that we don't want, and the Republican Party doesn't even seem to care about that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Party, Love Is

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Writing, Power Of Words

  Interview with Frank Andrick, www.artistwd.com.

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• Love and charity share the same root word (caritas). How is that possible, when everything in our recent history suggest they cannot coexist, that they are antiethical, that if you put the two of them together in a sack they would bite and scratch and scream, until one of them is torn apart?

  Nick Hornby

  Two, Roots, Together

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• In the City of God there will be a great thunder,
  Two brothers torn apart by Chaos,
  while the fortress endures,
  the great leader will succumb,
  The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

  Nostradamus

  Brother, War, Cities

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• Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Night, Going Away, Doe

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• How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don't talk about their joys, their problems, and the destruction of the country in literary diction.

  Hassan Blasim

  Country, Children, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart

  Lillian Gish

  Valentines Day, Flower, Love Is

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• Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.

  Patti Callahan Henry

  Distance, Forever, Soul

  Patti Callahan Henry (2006). “When Light Breaks”, p.63, Penguin

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• Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.

  John Berger

  Loss, Space, Together

  John Berger (2011). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos”, p.96, Vintage

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• The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

  Bernie Krause

  Sound, Needs, Way

  "A great silence is spreading over the natural worl" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2012.

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