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«If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.»
«He would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea...but know that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself and the sea would surge while the man drowned in it.»
«If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.»
«Dear love, for nothing less than thee / Would I have broke this happy dream, / It was a theme / For reason, much too strong for fantasy, / Therefore thou waked'st me wisely; yet / My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it.»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: broke, fantasy, theme, wisely
«Cool, I broke his brain!»
Author: Nancy Cartwright (Actress) | Keywords: broke, cool
«Charlotte: So how are you?Carrie: I'm good. How are you?Charlotte: Great.Carrie: I told Aidan about the affair and he broke up with me.Charlotte: Trey and I never had sex on our honeymoon.Carrie: You win. So. Should we get more coffee or should we get two guns and kill ourselves?»
«And then a Plank in reason, broke, And I dropped down, and down - And hit a World, at every plunge»
«Folks still remember the day ole Bob Riley came bouncing down that dirt road in his pickup. Pretty soon, it was bouncing higher and higher. The tires popped, and the shocks broke, but that truck kept bouncing. Some say it bounced clean over the moon, but whoever says that is a goddamn liar.»
«Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination -- everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.»
«If it ain't broke don't fix it»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: broke, fix, fix it

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