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• A massive beast dashed along the mountain apex. Astamur reached for his rifle. “A demon?” “No, not a demon.” I might have preferred one . “That’s my boyfriend.” Atsany and the shepherd turned to look at me. “Boyfriend?” Astamur said. Curran saw us. He paused on a stone crag and roared. The raw declaration of strength cracked through the mountains, rolling down the cliffs like a rockslide. “Yep. Don’t worry. He’s harmless.

  Ilona Andrews

  Worry, My Boyfriend, Mountain

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• There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon. It hurls itself at the island, sending spray right over the top of the lighthouse, biting pieces off the cliff. And the sound is a roaring of a beast whose anger knows no limits. Those are the nights the light is needed most.

  M. L. Stedman

  Ocean, Night, Islands

  "The Light Between Oceans". Book by M. L. Stedman, 2012.

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• The way up is a staircase.
  The way down is a cliff.

  Tablo

  Way, Staircases

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• As a younger person, my philosophy was jump off a cliff. I realize now that there are stairs and elevators. I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. I can even ask for help! Not feeling that I have to know everything, and that’s where the growth comes in, in the not knowing.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Philosophy, Knowing, Space

  "Tracee Ellis Ross Gets Glam For Uptown Magazine ‘Hollywood’ Issue" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing. The Five Sierras meander like small waves, the summits of Wumeng pour on the plain like balls of clay. Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed below by the River Gold Sand. Iron chains are cold, reaching over the Tatu River. The far snows of Minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes through, we all laugh. October 1935

  Mao Zedong

  Happiness, Laughter, Army

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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• I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, Wings, Voice

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

  Clive James

  Eye, Two, Miracle

  Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.486, Pan Macmillan

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• The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high level of coordination. Like lemmings in a staged dive off a cliff, 'historic' became the media's rallying cry. There is nothing historic about the deal. In fact, news reports from November 2012 noted that China expected, in 2012, that its carbon emissions would begin to decline after 2030 because of factory upgrades, efficiencies, etc.

  Erick Erickson

  Media, Rallying Cry, Carbon Emissions

  Erick Erickson (2016). “The Wrong Type of Values”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.

  Mas Oyama

  Climbing, Achievement, One Day

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• True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

  Félix J. Palma

  Self, Views, Giving

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• I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs, I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.

  James Joyce

  Dog, Winter, Whales

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• O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Fall, Men, Long

  "No worst, there is none" l. 9 (written 1885)

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• Love is scary, like anything else, whether you're falling in love, whether you're discovering love in something else...if you're really going to jump off the cliff, when you meet somebody that you love you're going to jump off that cliff, you've got to give them everything. And when you have a kid, it's on a much greater level.

  Kate Hudson

  Falling In Love, Love You, Kids

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• Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Book, Fall

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• And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.

  Sarah Dessen

  Air, Knowing, Toes

  "This Lullaby". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2002.

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• Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.

  Colum McCann

  Fighting, Love Is, Thinking

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.262, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The idea of my future simultaneously thrilled and terrified me, like standing at the lip of a very sheer cliff- I could fly, or fall. I didn't know how to fly, and I didn't want to fall. So I backed away from the cliff and went in search of something that had a clear, solid trajectory for me to follow, like hopscotch.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Fall, Ideas, Want

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• Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly I thought of Tutok, and the island seemed very quiet.

  Scott O'Dell

  Running, Islands, Blue

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• Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He found the old tune, the song of the Sunbird. And as he sung, as his rich voice echoed off the tall cliffs, the birds and the faeries lent him their voice and soon the tune drifted throughtout the garden.

  Brom

  Song, Garden, Building Up

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• This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is b.s. Not only do you kick him—you kick him until he passes out—then beat him over the head with a baseball bat—then roll him up in an old rug—and throw him off a cliff into the pounding surf below!!!!!

  Michael Scanlon

  Baseball, Bats, Kicking

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• She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

  George Orwell

  Young, Solve, Expected

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• You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.

  Kami Garcia

  Bigger, Fallen

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• In summary, she did jump off a cliff, but she wasn't trying to kill herself. Bella's all about the extreme sports these days." I flushed and turned my eyes straight ahead, looking after the dark shadow that I could no longer see. I could imagine what he was hearing in Alice's thoughts now. Near-drowings, stalking vampires, werewolf friends . . . "Hm," Edward said curtly, and the casual tone of his voice was gone.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sports, Eye, Dark

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order . . . Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.

  Wallace Thurman

  Order, Gorges, Shrines

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• Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.

  Ben Bernanke

  Cutting, Law, Important

  "Highlights: Bernanke's Q&A testimony to House panel". Ben Bernanke's remarks during the House Committee on Financial Services hearing at Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., www.reuters.com. February 29, 2012.

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