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• The sun sank with a sob and darkness waded in from all horizons so that the sky contracted and there was no more light left in the world, when, at this very moment of annihilation, the moon, as though she had been waiting for her cue, sailed up the night.

  Mervyn Peake

  Moon, Night, Light

  Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.17, The Overlook Press

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• Lightning crashed on the horizon. A breeze swirled around the Cast Members. The air tasted dusty, almost bitter, with electrical charge.

  Ridley Pearson

  Air, Lightning, Bitter

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• Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

  Jon Krakauer

  Travel, Moving, New Horizons

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Aron Ralston

  Passion, Adventure, Reality

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• That is why we need to travel. If we don't offer ourself to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

  Kent Nerburn

  Dream, Eye, Our World

  Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.115, New World Library

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• New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and success. Closely guard the quality of your thoughts, that they may lead to right habits and thence to right living. Recognize and use such supreme qualities as courage, faith, humility, loyalty, temperance, and integrity.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Loyalty, Integrity, Humility

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art.

  Gustave Moreau

  Art, Passion, Men

  "Gustave Moreau". Book by Jean Paladilhe and Josbe Pierrep, translated by Bettina Wadia, p. 32, 1972.

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• Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.

  Chris Hillman

  Light, Shining, Singers

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• In the end, to ski is to travel fast and free – free over untouched snow country. To be bound to one slope, even one mountain, by a lift may be convenient but it robs us of the greatest pleasure that skiing can give, that is to travel through the wide wintery country; to follow the lure of peaks which tempt on the horizon and to be alone for a few days or even hours in clear, mysterious surroundings.

  Hans Gmoser

  Country, Giving, Snow

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• Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.

  Leslie Jamison

  Mean, Knowing, Imagination

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.8, Granta Books

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• Once you have met a true human being,
  Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART.

  Rumi

  Heart, Disappear, Mets

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• Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Fire, Sky

  "Poems" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.

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• The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly, without our wishing it at all, one of these memories spills from us and finds expression in musical language...I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child.

  Claude Debussy

  Children, Memories, Simple

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• I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Unknown Worlds, Giving, Shadow

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• While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do not know the exact nature of every component of the universe, the basic principles of physics seem to apply out to the farthest horizon visible to us today.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Atheism, Principles, Today

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Long, Market Failure

  Interviewed with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I think markets are often not thinking on a long-time horizon, I think that our government structurally is doing even less so. When we have a government where we have people who are up for election at most once every six years for a U.S. senator, that's a time horizon that is much shorter than in a market that a company is looking at 10, 15, 20 years which is a time horizon over which a stock price is typically valued.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Government, Years

  Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I think somehow people should be encouraged to think about a very long time horizon and I think this is true for businesses, it's true for governments and it's true for people doing things in the non-profit sector.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Government, Long

  Interviewed with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ideas, Soul, Doe

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• However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Four, Compass

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• The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Dog, Animal

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.44, Bantam Classics

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• The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through.
  Have liberty not as the air within a grave
  Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native,
  In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.

  Wallace Stevens

  Freedom, Hate, Air

  Wallace Stevens (1954). “Collected poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  School, Chess, Higher

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Self, Personality, World

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