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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Will Knife Your Keep

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

You People Government Fall

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Truth Justice Tools Touch

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Richard M. Nixon

Candid Always Office Different

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

William Wordsworth

Mind Savage Acting Force

The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for contraception or any other kind of procedure if the employer had a 'moral' objection to it.

Health Insurance Company Moral

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Nice True Enough Your

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

Life I Am People My Life

While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances... it is one of many possibilities to check and balance the judiciary.

Balance Circumstances Only Judiciary

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

Music You Words Feel

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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

You Comedy Saying Done

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

False Any Statement Other

It's never really been my intention; I've never gone out of my way to be relatable to anyone. I just say what I want, and I'm pretty blunt about things.

Way Never Say Things

For the sexuality thing, I really feel like the reason I speak so blunt about it is because I held it in for so long. I never told my mom. I never told my family. I kept it to myself. Now, I'm happy with who I am. Either you accept it, or you don't. There's a lot of rappers out there that's like that, but no one's stepping up.

Family Myself You I Am

I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you.

Me Truth You People

The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don't stand back and wonder what it is. That's Jim Morrison, that's a panda, that's a scene on the West Coast. It's not abstract.

Simple You Way Stand

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Integrity Tests Truest Refusal

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

Barbara Walters

Being Confuse Stimulating

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

Sometimes Wish I Wish Bold

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

George Saunders

Short Story Who Greatest

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Politics Use Objects Skilled

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

Strike Instrument Imperfect Weapon

Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, although whether the net effect is to increase or reduce inequality is not clear.

Wealth Inequality Policy Clear

People beat around the bush so much, and I try to be really blunt in my music.

Music People Try Beat

I've never been uncomfortable sharing stuff. It's almost the opposite. I'll say the most blunt, brutally honest thing about any situation.

Rex Orange County

Situation Never Sharing Say

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

Life Nature Very British

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