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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Work Freedom You Man Change Struggle Ride Back Our Unless Bent Backs Must Through Does Inevitability Continuous Roll Wheels Straighten Your
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. Alice Walker
Beautiful Nature Nothing Trees Everything Ways Bent Perfect Weird Still
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. Thurgood Marshall
Teacher Somebody Few Down Nuns Our Solely Bent Ourselves Boots Bootstraps Parent Pick League Because None Got Up Ivy Ivy League Where Us Helped Here Pulling
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. Khalil Gibran
Inspirational Love Today Truth Obey Beauty Before Yesterday Our Bent Follow Obeyed Kings Only Only Love Kneel Necks
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. Edgar Allan Poe
Hope Dreams Man World Made Nine Ninety Hundredth Bent Those True New Come Content Making Who
As the twig is bent the tree inclines. Virgil
Tree Bent Twig
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. Kurt Cobain
Music Anger Guitar Made Pain Our Adds Worse Our Music Ways Bent Spine Weight Red Always Caused Stomach Screaming Where Irritation Body Your Two Damaged
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking. Mia Hamm
Champion Vision Looking Else Bent Point Nobody Nobody Else Over Exhaustion Sweat
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. Michel de Montaigne
Water Matters Bent Oar See Merely Looks How Straight Them Things
In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out. Michio Kaku
Time Travel Down Speeds Ruled Bent Out Wrinkle River Rivers New Equation Time Travel Up Fork Cannot Einstein Then Create Two
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. Van Wyck Brooks
Good Knowledge People Own Bent Superiority Small Caliber Always Prowess Breeding Good Breeding Showing
There's absolutely nothing irrational about me; insane, yes, irrational, no. But my dumbest fear would be spinning in the magic tea cups. Who the hell wants to pay to spin around like a bent yoyo for laughs? Akshay Kumar
Me Fear Nothing Tea Pay Hell Bent Insane Laughs Would Would-Be Spin Spinning Magic About Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Like Around Dumbest Yes Cups Irrational Wants Who
America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character. Nancy Pearcey
Character Islam National Radical Our Bent Willing Welcomed Always National Character America Anyone Radical Islam Conquest Assimilate Assimilation Rejects
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. Uri Geller
Me Woman Bent Television Claimed She Became Because Contraceptive Pregnant Who Sued Her Watched
There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives? Alaya Dawn Johnson
Politics People Political Try Complaining Society Our Our Lives Bent About Diverse Having Write Involves Because How Yes Expect Stories While Explicit Agendas Us Lives Imagine
Osama bin Laden characterized his terrorist activities as 'defensive jihad,' provoked by 'debauched infidels' bent on enslaving the Muslim world. The lead industry blamed 'ignorant parents' for applying lead paint to juvenile furniture. Albert Bandura
World Parents Defensive Jihad Furniture Bent Characterized Muslim Muslim World Blamed Lead Industry Terrorist His Provoked Juvenile Ignorant Paint Bin Activities Applying
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. Alexander Pope
Education Mind Tree Bent Just Common Tis Forms Inclined Twig
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery. Ali Smith
Time Thoughts First Past Speed Back Our Bent Characters Paragraph Along Know Well First Time Still End Rolling Flash Century Tweet Search Traveling Now Kept
When I was little, I used to watch Disney movies all the time, and it drove me crazy that Cinderella's tights wouldn't gather at her ankle when her foot bent, so I kept trying to make sure that I didn't get those little creases on my ankle because Cinderella didn't have them. Allison Williams
Time Me Crazy Cinderella Bent Those Foot Ankle Drove Make Sure Because Tights Get Trying Little Movies Them Disney Used Her Watch Kept Gather
My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful. Andy Serkis
You Natural Yourself Mask Energy Breath Every Back Bent Seeing More Through Performance Powerful Make How How Far Move Far Realize Your Even Pull
I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent. Angela Merkel
Truth Physics Bent Easily Pursue Because Chose Career
When I was much younger, my siblings and I would routinely tune in to watch 'Bill Nye the Science Guy' on PBS. He was a fascinating instructor bent on helping kids achieve a basic understanding of science. When he engaged in politics, it was only very briefly if at all. Ben Domenech
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I have already bent time to my will. Bernard Hopkins
Time Will Bent
If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker. Bob Menendez
Morning You Nation Breakfast Slept Back Bent Immigrant Had Picked Hotel Motel Got Up Done Fruits Room Worker Your
We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car. Bode Miller
You Have Fun Win Losing Car Lose Every Our Worry Say Bent Kids Tell About Winning Pout Participate Cheek Get Going Just Ice Ice Cream Cream Coach Should Fun They Say Tongue Tongue-In-Cheek
The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of. Brian Setzer
You People Song Country Jazz Guess Ears Bent Favorites Stuff Blending Most Another Proud How Different Unique Chord Fast Play Thing
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