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«In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.»
«Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.»
«I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.»
«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.»
«Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.»
«It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it»
«Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?»
«In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it.»
«Eternity was in our lips and eyes,Bliss in our brows bent.»
«It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.»

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