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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Blow, Knives, Decision

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

  James Hervey

  Bible, Mountain, Periods

  James Hervey (1816). “Mediations and Contemplations: Containing Meditations Among the Tombs, Reflections on a Flower-garden, A Descant Upon Creation, Contemplations on the Night, Contemplations on the Starry Heavens, A Winter-piece ...”, p.136

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• There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color you were before the season started.

  Hank Aaron

  Mean, Play, Color

  Hank Aaron, Furman Bisher (1974). “Aaron”, Ty Crowell Company

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• I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Book, Hands

  Sean Kernan, Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “The secret books”, Leete'S Island Books

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• The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Illustration, Becoming

  "Collected Fictions" by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley, 1998.

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• Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Pain, Reality, Men

  "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1940.

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• The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.

  Lord Acton

  Fighting, Evil, Giving

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

  Alain de Botton

  Reality, Optimism, Littles

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

  John Tillotson

  Truth, Way, Ends

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.16

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• I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.

  Kingsley Amis

  Mean, Writing, Years

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• Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Color, Best Effort

  Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. March 05, 1877.

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• Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Temptation, Age, Weakness

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

  Joseph Gurney Cannon

  Swapping, Legislation, Tobacco

  "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations" by Library of Congress, 1989.

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• I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone. Even in line for coffee, you're standing with someone who's trying to be so interesting.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Coffee, People, Interesting

  "Melissa McCarthy: The ESQ&A". Interview with Stott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 29, 2013.

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• When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

  Blake Lively

  Heaven, Needs, Saws

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.

  Campbell McGrath

  Land, Perfect, Use

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• Some celebrities, it's interesting, because they're fantastic playing a character when somebody is writing the lines for them, and they're amazing actors, but they're not as comfortable on television in front of a live audience and just having a conversation and being themselves.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Character, Writing, Interesting

  "Ellen Degeneres to freshen her talk show". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. September 2, 2006.

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• I love the supporting characters because you get to do more, to be totally honest. It's been sort of a theme with me. In Son of No One, I think I might have seven lines in the entire movie because everything is happening to my character.

  Channing Tatum

  Character, Son, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• If I want to do action, you don't really get to do it. They don't let you, there's too much on the line to let you jump out of a building.

  Channing Tatum

  Want, Too Much, Action

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think the most takes I've ever done would probably be maybe 10, on like a big studio movie where you can do those. But after a while it's like, "It's not gonna get any better, this is what it is," the light's just gonna dull from your eyes. I think the more you do it, the less the actors listen to each other because then you start memorizing the other person's lines and you start getting bored.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Eye, Thinking, Light

  "Jennifer Lawrence Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, Her Tabloid “Feud” with Kristen Stewart, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I've never like had a system or a program, I always think that I don't know how to act. I'll adapt to any director because I don't really have a set way that I do things. If a director hires me and says, "I want you to get started right now and do this research, this research, this research and I want you to have every line memorized before you ever show up for the first day," then that's what I'll do.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, Research, Want

  "Jennifer Lawrence Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, Her Tabloid “Feud” with Kristen Stewart, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I look for characters that are fun and that I'm going to have fun playing. By the way, that's whether it's drama, sci-fi, action, comedy, family movies or action-comedy. I just always want to have fun doing it. That's the bottom line.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Fun, Drama, Character

  "Dwayne Johnson On Set Interview FASTER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 1, 2010.

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• These types of films that are psychologically sort of dark at times, I find extremely exciting to do because there's always something to think about. There's nothing more boring than to show up on set and say a line and know that your character means exactly what they say. It's interesting to have an unreliable narrator in a film and that's what both of those films have been.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Mean, Dark

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Drama, Writing, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes from a place of a strong point of view.

  Tony Scott

  Strong, Cutting, Hair

  Source: collider.com

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