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1 " Wanted: Steel toed Bible thumpers to reach a monster truck mad world. "
― M.J. McGuire , Meme Myself and Jesus
2 " The difference was not that one was a pessimist and the other an optimist, it was that one's pessimism had led to an ethos of fear, and the other's pessimism had led to a noisy, fractious disdain for Everything-That-Was. One shrank, the other flailed. One toed the line, the other crossed it out. Much of the time they were at loggerheads, and because Willy found it so easy to shock his mother, he rarely wasted an opportunity to provoke an argument. If only she'd the wit to back off a little, he probably wouldn't have been so insistent about making his points. Her antagonism inspired him, pushed him into ever more extreme positions, and by the time he was ready to leave the house and go off to college, he had indelibly cast himself in his chosen role: as malcontent, as rebel, as outlaw poet prowling the gutters of a ruined world. "
― Paul Auster , Timbuktu
3 " Every girl dreams of waking up one day, a princess. Until that day kicks you in the face, wearing steel toed boots. "
― L.A. Kennedy
4 " By unspoken agreement, we all picked an invisible line in the cracked asphalt and toed it. "
― Chistopher McDougall
