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• The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.

  Anderson Cooper

  Fall, Eye, Wind

  Anderson Cooper (2009). “Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pride, Volcanoes, Attachment

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jul 14, 2016

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• Evil is simply
  a grammatical error:
  a failure to leap
  the precipice
  between "he"
  and "I.

  Linda Pastan

  Errors, Evil, Empathy

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• I look at my kids and I feel I'm at the precipice of this job, like just kind of tipping over the other side. I'm very conscious of time I guess is what I want to say, and I want to be there as long as I can with my kids, and I also want to make sure I do all the things that are important to me.

  Brad Pitt

  Jobs, Kids, Long

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There's leisure for thinking, nothing to do Often I carry an ancient book Sometimes I climb a rock pavilion To look down a thousand foot precipice Overhead are swirling clouds A cold moon chilly cold My body feels like a flying crane

  Hanshan

  Book, Thinking, Moon

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• Sometimes it is not wise to make a second plan; it diminishes the power of the first plan! In risky paths, make only one plan; this will increase the possibility of success! On the edge of a precipice, if your second plan is a parachute on your back, your possibility of falling will increase! When you have nothing to trust, you will be safer, because you have no right to make any mistake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Success, Wise, Mistake

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• The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Edges

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• There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Fall, Men

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• What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Zero, Artist, Car

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

  Edward Young

  Men, Guilt, Lasts

  Edward Young (1730). “Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc”, p.42

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• Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to be a plunge. I think poetry is dangerous. There's nothing mild and predictable about poetry.

  Josephine Jacobsen

  Thinking, Next Steps, Littles

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• Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and beautiful life, above and below the waters, ... of lofty precipices, richly draped, even the sternest fronts made to smile and be glad, as delights the gay tropics, and alive with waterfalls, gliding, leaping, or plunging, on their way down from the giddy heights, and, as they go, playing out and in amid the foliage...

  James Dwight Dana

  Beautiful, Nature, Memories

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• For me there were only two ways on the precipice - either I have to fall in or I have to fall out, to accept or say good-bye. The moment I crossed the precipice, it no longer was a discipline - it became a passion, an urge to pursue. Then I experienced freedom. Freedom comes when the discipline revolutionizes the discipline as a passion for the art.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Art, Fall, Passion

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• In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Men, Anchors

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• Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Honesty, Men, Bridges

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• Always know you could be on the precipice of something great.

  Donald Trump

  Greatness, Knows

  Donald Trump (2010). “Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life”, p.28, Vanguard Press

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• No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Purple, Mountain

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• There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night

  Ernest Bramah

  Suicide, Dark, Night

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• Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

  Aphra Behn

  Night, Light, Steps

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• We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many techniques are lost, and so we're going to have a [small] reserve of teachers who can teach the vast number of interested students. We have these poor, hungry, starving people who want to learn something and no place to get it. It's a tragedy.

  Nelson Shanks

  Teacher, Numbers, People

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• He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.

  Plautus

  Casts, Ifs

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• Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Blow, Wind, Mobility

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• Moving forward is not always good, especially when there is a precipice ahead! Know to turn back! Know to step back! Sometimes moving backwards is moving forward!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Steps, Sometimes

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• My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Art, Fall, Men

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

  Charles Schumer

  Balance, Nuclear, Tantrums

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