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• Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Balance, Lines, Physics

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• It is a simple matter to plant trees in straight lines, but informal groupings will test the sensitivities of the most experienced planter and the smaller the groups the more difficult they are to place.

  Graham Stuart Thomas

  Simple, Tree, Groups

  Graham Stuart Thomas (1979). “Great gardens of Britain”

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• I think the nerves aspect is a bit of a joke. How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another, most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models too, it wouldn't be the end of the world.

  Edie Campbell

  Fall, Thinking, People

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• I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image.

  Samuel Beckett

  Spring, Long, Mud

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• I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.

  Dick Cheney

  Good Day, Bad Day, Thinking

  "Diversity's Peace" by Emil Guillermo, www.sfgate.com. October 23, 2001.

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• Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.

  Rolf Jacobsen

  Book, Moon, Night

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• I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

  Bill Gates

  Powerful, Believe, People

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• Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms—rarely if ever in simple straight lines.

  Starhawk

  Moving, Simple, Circles

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• I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

  Britt Ekland

  Mowing, Lines, Hours

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• An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Lines, Landscape, Sticks

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• If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Lines, Pages

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight.

  A. R. Ammons

  Block, Sight, Hue

  A. R. Ammons (1968). “Selected poems”

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• The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state, where the corpuscular theory of light may be true, and where light does not always move in straight lines, but where we can never enter, and with which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside.

  William Crookes

  Moving, Science, Light

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• You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.

  Frederik Pohl

  Science, Thinking, Curves

  Frederik Pohl (1975). “The best of Frederik Pohl”, Sidgwick & Jackson

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• What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

  Earle Brown

  Lying, Hands, Two

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• There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Lines, Building, Corners

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• From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

  Saul Bellow

  Science, Age, Lines

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• Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

  Philip Johnson

  Wall, Talking, Rooms

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• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  Rachel Johnson

  Distance, Believe, Two

  Rachel Johnson (2009). “In a Good Place: A Novel”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Boys, Two

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• I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize me In this world where classification is key I want to erase the straight lines So I can be me

  Staceyann Chin

  Keys, Way, World

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• Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

  William Hogarth

  Lines, Length, Vary

  William Hogarth (2015). “Aestheticism in Art”, p.77, Parkstone International

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• The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight as the only remedy for the unfortunate collisions which are occurring. Yet, in truth, there is no remedy except to throw over the axiom of parallels and to work out a non-Euclidean geometry.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Work Out, World, Lines

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.15, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

  Horace Mann

  Lines, Crooked

  "The Common School Journal", Vol. V, No. 18, September 15, 1843.

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• Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

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