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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.
Khalil Gibran
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.
Kurt Cobain
Music
Anger
Pain
Guitar
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
Education
Tree
Mind
Just
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
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.
Alice Walker
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.
Tom Hanks
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.
Ambrose Bierce
Truth
Doubt
Lead
Danger
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil
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.
Andre Gide
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?
Dave Barry
You
Person
Your
Always
I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.
Brad Pitt
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.
David Mamet
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.
Mia Hamm
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.
Michio Kaku
Time
Travel
River
New
I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.
Angela Merkel
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.
Jeff Bridges
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.
Albert Bandura
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.
E. B. White
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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