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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
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Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
Henry Rollins
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
Georges Bataille
I had no blood relatives till I made some.
Andy Dick
I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.
Evel Knievel
Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.
Herbert Bayard Swope
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
Truman Capote
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
H. R. Giger
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
J. Reuben Clark
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
David Lloyd George
I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.
Chief Joseph
I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.
Viktor Yanukovych
There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.
Oren Lyons, Jr.
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
Charles Eastman
It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.
Delia Ephron
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
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Blood and death. That moves me.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
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Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
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God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.
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Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
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Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.
Georg Buchner
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
Eduard Shevardnadze
I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the blood flowed profusely from his wounds.
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I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.
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I am no more a witch than you are a wizard. If you take my life away, God will give you blood to drink.
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