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• The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Perseverance, Strong, Caves

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.14

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• A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Hard Work, Kitchen

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.31, Library of Alexandria

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• The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Eye, Artist, Color

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• Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every soil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wise, Heart, Errors

  "Proverbial Philosophy (Of Truth in Things False)". Book by Martin Farquhar Tupper, 1839.

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• Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

  Terry Taylor

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  Terry Lynn Taylor (1996). “Angel Days”, Ballantine Books

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• We think Scott has real good vision and good tools. He's quick and can run. He took care of the football for us and didn't put it on the ground. When he saw a crack, he hit it. His line did a good job providing him with opportunities.

  Glenn Beck

  Football, Running, Jobs

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• A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.

  Gavin de Beer

  Science, Two, Historical

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• The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Country, Military, Soldier

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• For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Sight, Balance

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• If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Military, War

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• Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.

  Bob Wise

  Wise, Teacher, Children

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• For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.

  C.P. Snow

  Fall, Eye, Science

  C.P. Snow (2010). “The Search”, p.30, House of Stratus

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• Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.

  Terry Taylor

  Gratitude, Angel, Direct

  Terry Lynn Taylor (1996). “Angel Days”, Ballantine Books

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• There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Optimism, Crosses

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Oct 11, 2013

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• If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think that tomorrow - or next week, or next month, or next year - is going to be any different? They won't. And that's why you must draw your line in the sand TODAY.

  Hal Elrod

  Commitment, Thinking, Next Week

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Dec 19, 2012

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• Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending line of development she tries an experiment once exceedingly thorough, and then the question is solved for all time. For she always takes time enough to try the experiment exhaustively. It took ages to find how to build a spinal column or brain, but when the experiment was finished she had reason to be, and was, satisfied.

  John M. Tyler

  Nature, Science, Brain

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• The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his works and empty promises. This prayer service will be along those lines. I'm not saying that anyone involved in the redefinition of marriage is possessed by the devil, which, if that were the case, would require the remedy of a "Major Exorcism," but all of us are certainly subject to the devil's evil influences and in need of protection and deliverance from evil.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Prayer, Evil, Baptism

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• In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival.
  Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado.

  Ka

  Rap, Men, Hip Hop

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• If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.

  F. Huegel

  Self, Temptation, Flow

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• We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

  Bill Gates

  Learning, Way, Flew

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• When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Country, Compassion

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “May Your Hearts Blossom: Chicago Speech”, p.36, M A Center

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• God draws straight with crooked lines.

  Andrew Greeley

  Catholic, Draws, Crooked

  Andrew Greeley (2008). “Common Ground: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together”, p.219, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.

  Frederick Lenz

  Keys, Arrows, Focus

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• When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, Trying, Sitting

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• The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Moving, Cutting

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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