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One can never rack up his goals mere through hard-work, there is a thing in this world which is known as self-confidence.

M.H. Rakib
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Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that "it is better to suffer tortures on the rack than to have a soul burdened with the guilt of doing evil." Aristotle does not confront this position directly: he merely emphasizes that it is better still both to be free from having done evil and to be free from being tortured on the rack.

Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History Of Ethics: A History Of Moral Philosophy From The Homeric Age To The Twentieth Century
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Dating--the socially accepted alternative to the rack.

Lois Greiman, One Hot Mess
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Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,Whine me dead?

Juvenal
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?

William Law
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For it falls outThat what we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,Why, then we rack the value, then we findThe virtue that possession would not show usWhile it was ours.

William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender To touch, her being só slender,

Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe then I'd understand how it's the little things that pull you under.

Kelli Russell Agodon
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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie
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