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I think there's something important in going against the grain, and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.
Kehinde Wiley
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Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.
Don Sutton
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Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.
Roger Williams
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I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?
Les Claypool
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It is necessary to dig deep within oneself to discover the hidden grain of steel called will.
Ryan Shay
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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.
Virginia Woolf
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If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.
Drake
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At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.
Michael Scott
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I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
Wyclef Jean
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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Jose Marti
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Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.
Jean de la Bruyere
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To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.
Joel Fuhrman
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Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
Walter Scott
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There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.
Rumi
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The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.
Justus von Liebig
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You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.
C. S. Lewis
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
Czeslaw Milosz
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This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.
Augusten Burroughs
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I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
Henry Miller
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No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
Charles Dickens
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I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
John Calvin
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We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.
Alfred Rupert Hall
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It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.
David Perlmutter
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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
Joseph Joubert
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I've never had that fear of going against the grain.
Kevin Costner
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Early on I learned to question everything. But I feel like everything is so divisive right now. Going against the grain would be to not be divisive and be inclusive. That's the disruptive way to go about it.
Mike Dirnt
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I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.
Donna Mills
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A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.
Martin Luther
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You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.
Mark Wahlberg
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Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.
William John Locke
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I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.
Michael Shanks
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When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.
Howard Pyle
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I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.
Victoria Chang
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
Viggo Mortensen
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The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.
Khalil Gibran
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Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.
Bell Hooks
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One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.
Austin O'Malley
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I'd rather have none at all than a grain too much.
Rachel Maddow
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The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.
Richard Mottram
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I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.
Kevin Costner