#bent

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

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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? ↗

— Robert Browning

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Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ↗

— Robert Brault

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It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be. ↗

— Tom Daschle

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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

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I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

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The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

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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

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