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• What I want people to know is I went to Wall Street before the crash. I was the one saying you're going to wreck the economy because of these shenanigans with mortgages. I called to end the carried interest loophole that hedge fund managers enjoy. I proposed changes in CEO compensation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, People, Want

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.

  Jeff Gordon

  Winning, Guy, Riding

  "Daytona Duel: Race two winner's press conference". www.motorsport.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

  Alistair Darling

  Recovery, Cutting, Faster

  "Electing the Conservatives is a risk we must not take" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2009.

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• I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I'd probably be a wreck.

  Jose Canseco

  Believe, Mean, Use

  "Canseco: No Qualms About Using Steroids". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2005.

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• You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

  Eric Cantor

  Kids, Simple, Train Wrecks

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• I'm a nervous wreck. If it's a 20-day shoot, at lunchtime on the first day, I'm thinking "Only 19 and a half days to go... I can make it!"

  Guy Maddin

  Thinking, Half, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

  June Jordan

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

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• And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Noble, Immortality, Stills

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.188

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• Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Usury, Nations

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

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• If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

  Bill McKibben

  Wreckage, Profit, Planets

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• Africa's a wreck and it's not because it was hit by an asteroid. It's a wreck largely because it was hit by Europe.

  Noam Chomsky

  Europe, Asteroids

  Source: www.madre.org

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• It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspiring, Stars, Men

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• Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that's just a risk of the sport. If you can't keep from worrying about it, then you're in the wrong line of work.

  Coo Coo Marlin

  Sports, Worry, Risk

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• The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, House, Soul

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.144, Shambhala Publications

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• Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wisdom, Passion, Bridges

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• I'm weary of conjectures, - this must end 'em.
  Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life,
  My bane and antidote, are both before me:
  This in a moment brings me to an end;
  But this informs me I shall never die.
  The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
  At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
  The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
  Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
  But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
  Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
  The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Crush, Stars

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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• The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled workers, machinery, a market, peace and order - a vast apparatus and a pervasive atmosphere, the joint creation of millions of men and scores of generations. Take away the whole social factor, and we have not Robinson Crusoe with his salvage from the wreck and his acquired knowledge, but the native savage living on roots, berries and vermin.

  Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

  Thinking, Men, Hands

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• You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future that is plunging on to the last syllable of recorded time. We can't possible live in either of those eternities - no, not even for a split second. But, by trying to do so, we can wreck both our bodies and our minds. So let's be content to live the only time we can possible live: from now until bedtime.

  Dale Carnegie

  Future, Past, Two

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and it was something of a miracle to me to be on the receiving end of all that acceptance. The dog didn't care what I looked like, or what I did for a living, or what a train wreck of a life I'd led before I got her, or what we did from day to day. She just wanted to be with me, and that awareness gave me a singular sensation of delight.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Acceptance, Train Wrecks

  Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.34, Dial Press

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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Sleep, Insomnia

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

  Andrew Mellon

  People, Competent, Picks

  "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941". Book by Herbert Hoover, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1951.

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• I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

  Kristin Davis

  Teenager, Car, Drink

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• I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Self Esteem, Kids

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• I don’t care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I don’t care if it wrecks the league for 10 years. This is the United States of America, and one citizen has as much right to play as another.

  Ford Frick

  Years, Play, America

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• Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.

  Jack Osbourne

  Dad, Drinking, Emotional

  "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com, February 2003.

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