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I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

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We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

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The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

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The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

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What potent blood hath modest May.

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Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Blood Quotes , Punishment Quotes

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Blood Quotes , Hands Quotes

The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Blood Quotes , Bread Quotes

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Blood Quotes , Broken Quotes

Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

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Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins.

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Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.

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For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.

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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Blood Quotes

When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood.

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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

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Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.

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