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  • Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream - if it is intended that you stay there.
  • Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
  • Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.
  • When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.
  • Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan 
 His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man 
 He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop 
 He said, Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.
  • When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them.
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Bert Lance All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn't mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Bethany McLean Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • George Eliot Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Bryson I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Louis Nizer In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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  • Philip Roth Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Richard Nixon Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream - if it is intended that you stay there.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan
    His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man
    He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop
    He said, Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.
    Working On A Dream (2009) Outlaw Pete
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Raymond Chandler The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bill Bixby The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • Djuna Barnes The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
    Djuna Barnes
    American writer and artist (1892 - 1982)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • B. B. King Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bill Parcells When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Brendan Fraser When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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