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"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them." »Ursula K. LeGuin
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"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this." »Blaise Pascal, quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940
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"It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie." »Unknown
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"The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them." »Franklin P. Jones
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""I'll give you a hint: it's called a crush for a reason"" »Amanda Madden
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"I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight." »Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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"It is the supreme tragedy of the human condition that we are so quick to crush the beauty from the butterflies in our mist." »Loren D. Estleman
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"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it." »H. G. Wells, 1903
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"Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly the chances are, it's holding you too." »Bob Alberti
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"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." »Mao Zedong
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"like the cycle of water and life there is of love first you meet him, have a crush on him, dream that he is so damn perfect, realize he loves someone else, have a broken heart, finally getting over, and damn it! here we go again" »Fer
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"Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart." »R. Buckminster Fuller
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