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• Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

  Lillian Smith

  Faith, Second Chance, Two Sides

  Lillian Eugenia Smith (1954). “The journey”, World Publishing Company

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• I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Technology, Sensual, Church

  Oscar Niemeyer (2000). “The curves of time: the memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer”, Phaidon Press

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• Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent. Go down to your deep old heart, and lose sight of yourself. And lose sight of me, the me whom you turbulently loved. Let us lose sight of ourselves, and break the mirrors. For the fierce curve of our lives is moving again to the depths out of sight, in the deep living heart.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Moving, Heart, Love Is

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Edition”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

  Floyd Abrams

  Baseball, Balls

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

  Odette Annable

  Booty, Want, Littles

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• Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.

  Seth Godin

  Activity, Learning Curve

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• Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

  Felix Klein

  Confused, Math, Numbers

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• The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Strength, Law, Soul

  The Christian Science Monitor, June 18, 1964.

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• The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Photography, Thinking, Cameras

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• I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

  Helen Keller

  God, Heart, Eye

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

  Sonny Terry

  Player, Water, Albums

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• At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.

  Mason Cooley

  Loss, Path, Motivational Diet

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• Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

  Rick Moranis

  Games, Guy, Video

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• Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Children, Mean, Responsibility

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Country, Jobs, Opportunity

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• Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

  Ernie Pyle

  Dark, Night, Bridges

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Balls, Pitching

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• When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Business, Want, Graphs

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• Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.

  Charles Kingsley

  Eye, Two, Long

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers”, p.405

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• All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

  Thomas Lennon

  Bells, Littles, Way

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• I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

  Cameron Diaz

  Fun, Taken, Careers

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• James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

  Joe Morton

  Technology, Use, Way

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• I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

  David Knopfler

  Fun, Ducks, Two

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• I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.

  Andrea Jung

  Six Months, Firsts, Economy

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• The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

  Alvin Dark

  Mistake, Want, Breaking Promises

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