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• I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Silly, Issues

  "Barack Obama Speech Text: Read The President’s Democratic Convention Remarks", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Say this is what the pain made of you:
  an open, open, open road,
  an avalanche of feel it all.

  Andrea Gibson

  Pain, Made, Feels

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• The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Numbers, Humanity

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.295, Ivan R. Dee

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• What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)

  Donald E. Westlake

  Tired, Giving, Advice

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• I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for a living. It?s arduous work and the money is very uncertain. On those rare occasions when I wander into a bookstore it amazes me to see the avalanche of literature and semi-literature that is turned out weekly in this country. The people who write these things are either desperate for money or love starved. Why should anyone on a nice balmy day lock oneself in an office and hit a typewriter for hours on end. I think one of the greatest pleasures in the world is not writing.

  Groucho Marx

  Country, Nice, Writing

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• A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.

  Edward Abbey

  Risk, Minorities, Alive

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.202, Holt Paperbacks

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• Once you start turning over rocks and reaching out to help people, there's a whole avalanche coming right behind it. And it seems never-ending. But when you see the fruits of your labor, you feel like it's possible.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Rocks, People, Fruit

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an avalanche, as instances of general forces, as not yet fully human because utterly conditioned by their circumstances. Where Turgenev saw men, Marx saw classes of men; where Turgenev saw people, Marx saw the People. These two ways of looking at the world persist into our own time and profoundly affect, for better or for worse, the solutions we propose to our social problems.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Character, Men, Class

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• Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche.

  Sam Houston

  Perseverance, War, Moving

  "Sam Houston". Book by James L. Haley, p. 397, 2004.

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• Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

  Franz Wright

  Snowflake, Individual, Should

  Franz Wright (2011). “Wheeling Motel”, p.12, Knopf

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• I might even pursue a career in politics. If I do, I will have had great practice dealing with the avalanche of daily criticism from working at Fox News and being a former Miss America. I'm ready for anything!

  Gretchen Carlson

  Practice, Careers, America

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

  Stedman Graham

  Long, Important, Information

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• When you're wearing the Avalanche logo, you battle.

  Patrick Roy

  Battle, Logos

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• There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Needs, Sin, Conviction

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• All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Men, Reform, Revolution

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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• I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.

  Jack Gilbert

  Women, Heart, Dark

  Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.26, Knopf

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• I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small.

  Channing Tatum

  Thinking, Myopic, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

  Marcel Proust

  Doctors, Doubt, World

  Marcel Proust, James Grieve, Mark Treharne, John Sturrock, Carol E. Clark (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Way by Swann's”

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• I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.

  Jillian Lauren

  Swimming, Over You, Arms

  Jillian Lauren (2010). “Some Girls: My Life in a Harem”, p.68, Penguin

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• Passionately obsessed by anything we love - an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love.

  Richard Bach

  Fear, Magic, Doubt

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• Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Littles, Pebbles, Helping

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• Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is see in ripe plums? If she always sees backward and upside down without knowing it what chance do we have? I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through, And I am replying, "Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding.

  Jack Gilbert

  Angel, Color, Shoes

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.218, Knopf

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• Everything that`s written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don`t think there`s anything I can do to stop it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Thinking, Negative, Can Do

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• Nature photography... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in the long run, it is important; in order to endure our age of apocalypse, we have to be reconciled not only to avalanche and hurricane, but to ourselves.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Running, Mistake

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the root of our troubles - wrong habits of eating and drinking - we rush to the medicine shelf and smother our uncomfortable and distressing symptoms under an avalanche of pills, potions and palliatives.

  Lester Roloff

  Drinking, Roots, Medicine

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