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I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Henry David Thoreau

Moment Farmer Genius House

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 Change Freedom Man

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Inspirational Love Beauty Today

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

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.

Music Anger Pain Guitar

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Education Tree Mind Just

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Education Tree Mind Just

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 See Looks Things

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Robert Browning

Life Past Way How

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Nature Beautiful Weird Nothing

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I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

Me Leader Live Political

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Truth Doubt Lead Danger

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Nature Tree Twig

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

Honore de Balzac

Woman Destiny Never Everything

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Good Long Follow Own

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

Miguel de Cervantes

Stand Always Some Without

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

You Person Your Always

I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.

I Am Quality Degree Am

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

Science Trust Fly Sometimes

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

Vision Looking Champion Nobody

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.

Time Travel River New

I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.

Truth Physics Career Because

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

You Joy Way Know

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.

World Parents Furniture Ignorant

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

Weather Skin Need Without

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

Karen Armstrong

Religion Think Way Why

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