Quotes with switch-blades

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  • Jonathan Swift And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Denis Waitley If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Ivern Ball Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
    Ivern Ball
    American author (1926 - 1992)
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  • Samuel Beckett Make sense who may. I switch off.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Florence King People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Boris Pasternak Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
    LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Richard Dawkins Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen The street's alive as secret debts are paid,
    Contacts made, they vanished unseen.
    Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades
    Hustling for the record machine.
    The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands
    That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.
    Born To Run (1975) Jungleland
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Ben Zobrist When I move to second after playing right field, I feel like my action has gotten too deliberate, and I have to switch back into that quicker, boom-boom infield mode.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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