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be choked

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I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since. Stephen Fry

To be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf. William Butler Yeats

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough. Robert Mugabe

One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy. Norman Borlaug

The sea returning day by day Restores the world-wide mart. So let each dweller on the Bay Fold Boston in his heart Till these echoes be choked with snows Or over the town blue ocean flows. John Collins Bossidy

He that eats the king's geese shall be choked with the feathers. Spanish Proverb

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