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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Beaten Disdain Genius Hitherto Path Regions Seeks Unexplored

Keywords: Abandon


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To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.

~Adam Cohen

Topics: Always American American Life Beaten Been Down Equally Generation High Home Life Mad Mad Men Men Message Meter Mounting Offers Predecessors Retirement Savings Set Unemployment Unhappy Were

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In 'A Scandalous Woman,' the eventually distraught narrator watches as her high-spirited friend is beaten down - literally and figuratively - by Ireland's pious customs.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: Beaten Customs Down Eventually Friend Her Ireland Literally Narrator Pious Scandalous Watches Woman

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Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.

~Alice Miller

Topics: Beaten Children Give Humiliated Humiliation Impose Intimidated Intimidating Souls Those Turn Who Whose Will

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We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.

~Amy Levy

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When you have beaten guys a few times, you don't want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don't expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.

~Andy Murray

Topics: Beaten Beating Different Different Ways Expect Few Find Game Going Guys How Know Play Put Something Sometimes Them Things Think Times Try Unpredictable Want Ways You Your

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It was strange: I never had an interest in school because from an early age I knew the only thing I wanted to do was to play music! So I didn't feel so bad not going into school when I was supposed to be there - why do I need Latin, geography, physical education, etc., and to get beaten on a daily basis?

~Andy Rourke

Topics: Age Bad Basis Beaten Because Daily Daily Basis Early Early Age Education Etc Feel Geography Get Going Had Interest Knew Latin Music Need Never Only Physical Physical Education Play Play Music School Strange Supposed The Only Thing Thing Wanted Why

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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Against Anyone Beaten Else Just Life Measure Own Pick Picked Soul Stick Up Yardstick You Your

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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Topics: Assumes Beaten Chief Does He Man Men Responsibility Say Says Were Who

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I have lately examined water, in which beaten pepper was steeped, and found two sorts of animals for shape, and each of those sorts to contain greater and smaller kinds: the greater I supposed the elder, the less the younger.

~Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

Topics: Animals Beaten Contain Each Elder Examined Found Greater Kinds Lately Less Pepper Shape Smaller Sort Supposed Those Two Water Which Younger

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