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«Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.»

«Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong»

«Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.»

«I much prefer being a man. Women have to spend so much time pulling themselves together, and their shoes kill your feet.»

«None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.»

«And of some have compassion, making a difference: / And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.»

«Big Brother isn?t watching. He?s singing and dancing. He?s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother?s busy holding your attention every moment you?re awake. He?s making sure you?re always distracted. He?s making sure you?re fully absorbed.»

«Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, /where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!»

«Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.»

«Death is a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.»