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• Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too?

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Vacation, Air

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• Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.

  Steve Rasnic Tem

  Beautiful, Real, Angel

  Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

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• We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.

  Eric Maisel

  Air, Choices, Infinite

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.21, Penguin

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• The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air to buy Government Bonds from the U.S. Treasury...and has created out of nothing a ... debt which the American people are obliged to pay with interest.

  Wright Patman

  Government, Air, People

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• At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is the Fed's power to print legal tender money. But the Fed tries its best not to print cash but rather to "print" or create demand deposits, checking deposits, out of thin air, since its demand deposits constitute the reserves on top of which the commercial banks can pyramid a multiple creation of bank deposits, or "checkbook money."

  Murray Rothbard

  Money, Air, Commercial Banks

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• Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Animal, Air, Years

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• I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dream, Jesus, Destiny

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• Toward the end of their relationship she'd told him once, "I wish I could give you what you're looking for, but I don't know what it is. There's a part of you that you keep closed off from everyone, including me. Its as if I'm not the one you're really with. Your mind is on someone else." He tried to deny it, but she didn't believe him. "I'm a woman - I know these things. When you look at me sometimes, I know you're seeing someone else. Its like you keep waiting for her to pop out of thin air to take you away from all this.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Air, Giving

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Kids, Lakes, Mirrors

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.117, Penguin

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• Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Air, Secret, Littles

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• But I don’t think I’ve ever known such a natural at Potions!” said Slughorn. “Instinctive, you know — like his mother! I’ve only ever taught a few with this kind of ability, I can tell you that, Sybill — why even Severus —” And to Harry’s horror, Slughorn threw out an arm and seemed to scoop Snape out of thin air toward them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Thinking, Air

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• I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just knotting your body in a certain way and letting the black curtain fall over you. That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Mean, Night

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing can compare to creating characters and worlds out of thin air with your friends and making a book exactly the way you think it should be made, pure creative freedom, purity of intention, with no boundaries.

  Rick Remender

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Rick Remender (2013). “Black Science #1”, p.31, Image Comics

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• [Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.

  Janet Leigh

  Acceptance, Air, Together

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• For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.

  Philippe Petit

  Block, Air, Safety

  Source: collider.com

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• In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

  Yann Martel

  Art, Air, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's important for a director to provide as much information, especially when we're working with things that we have to conceive out of thin air. You can't just expect an actor to understand: 'Oh, there's a dinosaur coming at you". OK, so I'm going to automatically know how big it is and what it sounds like? I need details. How close does he get to me? How tall is he? What will the impact be of his cry when he's screaming at me or when he's blowing smoke or air in my face?

  Zoe Saldana

  Impact, Air, Important

  "Zoe Saldana on Make-up, Stunts, & being a Guardian of the Galaxy". ComicMix Interview, www.comicmix.com. December 8, 2014.

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• My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Believe, Fighting

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Power, Unique, Air

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.

  Isabel Allende

  Air, Three, World

  Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. June 06, 2003.

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• For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?

  Frederick William Robertson

  Dream, Integrity, Party

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.109

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• Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

  Dean Karnazes

  Book, Adventure, Air

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• The Congress should not be creating money out of thin air, which is what Lincoln did when he created greenbacks. But it is a congressional responsibility to maintain gold and silver as a legal tender.

  Ron Paul

  Responsibility, Air, Creating

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

  Marge Piercy

  Blood, Ice, Wind

  1983 Stone, Paper, Knife,'TheWeight'.

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• Historically, very few discoveries were made out of thin air. Most of the greatest insights depended upon the intellectual ecology in which the scientists lived. A certain critical mass of "new findings" occurred, and bright people all over the world found out about it, and several read the tea leaves the same way.

  John Medina

  Air, Discovery, Tea Leaves

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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