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• The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

  Mika

  Boxing, Stage, Rings

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• So go ahead and face that fear, make that effort, move forward into new territory and fully live the grand possibilities with which you're blessed. Boldly face life, and you'll find it to be better than you ever imagined.

  Ralph Marston

  Moving, Blessed, Effort

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• Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.

  Krista Tippett

  God, Religious, Compassion

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• How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.

  Golda Meir

  Israel, Cleansing, Return

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• Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Laughter, Laughing, Doubt

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• Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Two, Important, Maps

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.58, Institute of GS

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• ...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

  Yann Martel

  Zoos, Fall, Animal

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.73, Canongate Books

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• Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory

  Candace Bushnell

  Dog, Hair, Guy

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• I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Understanding, Ends

  Source: therumpus.net

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• He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

  Graham Greene

  Liars, Lying, Return

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Genius, Originality

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• What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?

  Jean Leloup

  Real, Ego, Desire

  Jean-Yves Leloup (2009). “Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

  Mark Twain

  Aunt, Light, Huckleberry

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 43 (1884)

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• With any other movie, you're entering new territory, so it's quite different to be involved in something where it's the same characters, and the same people.

  Anna Kendrick

  Character, People, Entering

  "Anna Kendrick on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World". Interview with Caroline Bankoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 11, 2010.

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• The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.

  Stephen Hawking

  Survival, May, Failing

  "Stephen Hawking: Aggression could destroy us" by Nick Clark, www.independent.co.uk. February 19, 2015.

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• Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.

  Yasser Arafat

  War, Blow, Israel

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• Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

  Susanne Bier

  Creative, Way, Excitement

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Belts, Despised

  "The Critic", Vol. 33, Thomas More Association, p. 12, 1974.

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• Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Crowds, Sticks

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• I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

  W. G. Sebald

  Believe, Black And White, Life And Death

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• Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland. We have never been involved in a decision to annex the territory of a neighboring country, or to fight for foreign markets on distant shores. These are the games men play, not us. We want to be neither oppressors nor oppressed. The women's revolution is the final revolution of them all.

  Susan Brownmiller

  Country, War, Fighting

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• I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

  Ron Reagan

  Father, Kids, Thinking

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• We have absolute support from all our masses inside our occupied territories and even outside our occupied territories. The "War of the Camps" [in Lebanon] is another picture of this strong support of our masses.

  Yasser Arafat

  Strong, War, Support

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

  Randy Jackson

  Wise, Tvs, Shows

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• You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Land, Attention

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