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• The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Fall, Character, Air

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.96, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Years, Enjoy Life, Christmas Love

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• The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down

  Geraldo Rivera

  Lying, Media, Reputation

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• Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Funny Relationship, Men, Way

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.48, BookBaby

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• What is meant to be, will always find its way. And when your down and feeling alone, just wanna run away, trust yourself and don't give up. You know you better than anyone else.

  Hilary Duff

  Inspirational, Running, Giving Up

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• On going vegetarian." I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry anymore. So i've decided I'm not going to eat meat."

  Shiri Appleby

  Meat, Sitting, Salad

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• We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute, it will change. So I try to play things on such an even keel, knowing that things are going to change. You take the good with the bad; you don't get too excited, you don't get too down and sometimes that's the hardest thing in the world to do when you're in the midst of it, but that's the best way to handle it.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Play, Knowing

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• Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

  Mother Jones

  Education, Conflict, Educate

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• I know that I've been given more than beyond measure. I come alive when I see beyond my fears. I know that I've been given more than earthly treasure. I come alive when I've broken down and given you control.

  Jeremy Camp

  Broken, Alive, Treasure

  Song: Beyond Measure, Album: Beyond Measure, 2006

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• I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Thinking, Sometimes, Timeless

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• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up.
  I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Top Down, Looks, Way

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “Scientology: A New Slant on Life”, p.270, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

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• I had no idea what was in store for me this season. This is the first time I've been a part of a true team sport, and there's someone else counting on you. You can't let that person down, and that's what drives me.

  Lauryn Williams

  Sports, Team, Ideas

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• That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.

  Tim McCarver

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• And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?

  William McDonough

  Nature, Food, Writing

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• Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. He taught me that I had more to learn from the people I work with than I could ever hope to teach them.

  Greg Mortenson

  People, Tea, Important

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2009). “Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time”, p.79, Penguin

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• There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

  Franz Kafka

  True Knowledge, Childlike

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

  Lucretius

  And Love, Sound, Phrases

  Lucretius (2008). “On the Nature of the Universe”, p.90, OUP Oxford

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• If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.

  S. E. Hinton

  Writing, Thinking, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
  Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
  Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
  Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
  and
  History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Night, Rainbow, Psychology

  Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press

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• Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.

  Harvey Mackay

  Ups & Downs

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Clever, May

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• I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have a burn box where I write secrets down and put it in a box.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Writing, Secret, Kind

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• Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Stars, Dark, Space

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.208, Seal Press

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