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• Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Powerful, Humility, Pride

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• The path marked Pride will lead you over a cliff.

  Max Lucado

  Pride, Path

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.

  Richard Kadrey

  Rocks, Land, Burning

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• Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a cliff top it's a different matter.

  Jonathan Meades

  Thinking, Magic, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.

  Dean Potter

  Fall, Mean, Essence

  "Dean Potter, in his own words: I dream of feathers sprouting on my arms", www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2015.

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• At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and the chalk cliffs of Dover.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Rain, Breathing

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• I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight, it's about time you showed up around here.' I wanted to detach him from her, but first I had to sit through about ten minutes of her. She was my sister, but you don't tell women things like I wanted to tell him. I don't know why, but you don't. You tell them the things you have under control; the things that you're frightened of, you tell other men if you tell anyone.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Fear, Men, Doors

  Cornell Woolrich (1943). “I wouldn't be in your shoes”

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• It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.

  Claude Monet

  Running, Home, Learning

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• I had simply been inspired by Arthur Godfrey (40's) and Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards (20's). In there day, they were huge in this country. I bought Godfrey's book "You Too Can Learn To Play Ukulele" and taught myself. It's a very romantic instrument. You can take it on a canoe.

  Tiny Tim

  Country, Book, Ukulele

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• Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

  Sara Paretsky

  Lakes, Swim, Golden Retrievers

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• The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.

  Lee Child

  Hands, Quality, Bigs

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• From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

  Robert Smithson

  New York, Artist, Cities

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.8, Univ of California Press

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• When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.

  Usama Fayyad

  Wall, Errors, Judging

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.

  Reid Hoffman

  Airplane, Jumping, Use

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• I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process.

  Charles Yu

  Confused, Fall, Climbing

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.63, Vintage

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• The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.

  John Wesley Powell

  Rocks, Rivers, Landscape

  Smithsonian Institution, John Wesley Powell, Almon Harris Thompson, Elliott Coues, George Brown Goode (1875). “Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution”, p.55

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• I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore.

  Kate Gosselin

  Stress, Next, Facts

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Fall, School, Mean

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• If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Fall, People, Disease

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• At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.

  John Vinocur

  Cutting, Climbing, Wind

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• Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.

  Maya Banks

  Hops, Plunge, Leap

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• I'm already waiting when Puck gets to the top of the cliffs. I'm not the only one; about two dozen race tourists have made perches out of rocks, watching Corr and me as closely as they dare. Puck glares at them all, searing enough that some of them flinch in surprise. I'm not certain what to expect from her after last night. I don't know how to address her. I don't know what she expects from me or what I expect from me. What I get is a wordless hello and a November cake in my hand.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Night, Two, Race

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• I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Lemmings

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fall, Wonder, Found

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “The Truth About Forever”, p.240, Penguin UK

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• There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.

  Jodi Picoult

  Letting Go, Peers, Body

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