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Letter "B" » battering
«Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.»
«I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.»
«Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
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Activist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
batter,
battered,
battering,
batters,
instruction,
pornography,
rape,
raped,
raping,
The Practice
«At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.»
«Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.»
«Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.»
Author: Billy Graham
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Keywords:
adversity,
batter,
battered,
battering,
batters,
Christians,
defeat,
Human nature,
mountain,
ridge,
ridges,
rise,
storms,
strongest,
trees,
winds,
wind rose,
wood
«Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.»
Author: Jim Morrison
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Poet,
Singer)
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About:
Honesty,
Lies,
Sex
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Keywords:
batter,
battered,
battering,
batters,
bound,
cripple,
crippled,
cripples,
crippling,
hardly,
pretenses,
rules,
To Tell the Truth,
tries
«Batter my heart, three personed God; for you / As yet but knock, breathe, shine and seek to mend.»
«One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph»
«I am content to live it all againAnd yet again, if it be life to pitchInto the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,A blind man battering blind men.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
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Dramatist,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
battering,
blind man,
ditch,
frog,
pitch,
pitch into,
spawn,
spawned,
spawning