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• Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Thinking, Dividing

  "Life at 30,000 feet". TED with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. 2007.

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• To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Beautiful, Art, Landscape

  "The Classical Landscape Paintings of J.M.W. Turner". Book by Dennis Hugh Halloran, p. 75, 1970.

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• But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

  Francisco Goya

  Nature, Eye, Details

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• Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Littles, Retreat, Impossible

  Quoted in Listener, 14 Dec. 1939 See Calonne 1; Santayana 14; Trollope 3

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• If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Kitchen, World, Ran

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• I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

  Fernand Leger

  Curves, Color, Shade

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• A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Lying, Book, Years

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• There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

  Antony Jay

  Ideas, Done, Logic

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• Jesus' power is the power of human wholeness that ultimately opens, invites and enables human beings to step beyond defense lines where incomplete humanity always hides in order to experience full humanity.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Order, Humanity

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• Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

  Marlene Dumas

  Drawing, Forever, Paper

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• The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

  Tim Ferriss

  Perfect, Way, Pins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.

  Adam Gopnik

  Player, Drawing, Risk

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• This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

  Charles Gounod

  Music, Ocean, Serenity

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• Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out.

  Morris Graves

  Color, Ideas, Mind

  "Morris Graves, the early works". Book by Theodore F. Wolff, published by Whitney Museum of American Art, p. 28, 1998.

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• What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.

  Nelson Goodman

  Needs, Problem, Intrigue

  Nelson Goodman (1983). “Fact, Fiction, and Forecast”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

  Robert Hass

  Past, Thinking, Ideas

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• You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.

  Winslow Homer

  Light, Sky, Giving

  Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich (1973). “Winslow Homer”

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• I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Goal, Acting, Certain

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• In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.

  Sol LeWitt

  Simple, Squares, Color

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• The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.

  David Milne

  Color, Trying, Emotion

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• Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.

  Raymond Sokolov

  New York, Lunch, Four

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• Who doesn't know the easy, breezy, beautiful Covergirl line? I'm so excited to be the face of the brand in Australia and help all girls find and rock their inner Covergirl!

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Beautiful, Girl, Rocks

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• I think every single point will be important, .. I think more than anything, I'll just have to be able to compete better. When you're playing Serena Williams, you have to compete better than her. I got a lot of tricks from Serena just watching her. She inspired me so many times. I also got motivated by her in the early part of my career, and even now. I just have to compete better, bottom line.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Careers, Important

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• We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

  Carl Pope

  Oil, America, Matter

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• Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.

  Samuel Garth

  Running, Firsts, Decline

  Sir Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell (1822). “The Poems of Garth, and Tickell”, p.48

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