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• It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

  Cornel West

  Fighting, Dark, Soul

  "Cornel West: Truth". Interview with Astra Taylor, killingthebuddha.com. November 15, 2009.

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• People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on every corner...I almost expected a Shorty Rogers to deliver the milk, a Bud Shank to be the mailman.

  Gabor Szabo

  Music, Iron, America

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• How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Kings, War, Ambition

  Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.142

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• There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Saving, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

  Boris Beizer

  Bugs, Boundaries, Programming

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

  Boris Pasternak

  Angel, Flames, Wings

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• When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

  Curtis Jackson

  Self, Should Have, Goal

  "The 50th Law". Book by 50 Cent and Robert Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2009.

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• To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human beings and animals have no corners. With us, the circle stands for togetherness of people who sit with one another around the campfire, relatives and friends united in peace while the sacred pipe passes from hand to hand. To us this is beautiful and fitting, symbol and reality at the same time, expressing the harmony of life and nature.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Beautiful, Reality, Thinking

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• I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.

  Rachel Whiteread

  Art, Sculpture, World

  "Boxing Clever". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.

  Jim Rogers

  Lying, Waiting, Picks

  "Playing defense in the stock market right now doesn't make you an idiot" by Jesse Felder, www.businessinsider.com. April 09, 2015.

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• There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner because we haven’t solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis.

  Mark Mobius

  Financial, Crisis, Havens

  "Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way, Mobius Says" by Halah Touryalai, www.forbes.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.

  Tiziano Terzani

  Mirrors, Giving, Humanity

  Tiziano Terzani (1997). “A fortune-teller told me”, HarperCollins

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• I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve.

  Big Boi

  Curves, Nerves, Toenails

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• Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Glasses, Broken, Paper

  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

  Frank Auerbach

  Art, People, Imagination

  Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”

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• America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.

  Kenny Marchant

  War, America, Hatred

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• When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

  Zig Ziglar

  Character, Business Success, Next

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, p.190, Revell

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• The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the corner waiting for a little flame.

  Charlie Munger

  Oxygen, Flames, People

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• Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.

  Sandra Lee

  Mean, Giving, Missing

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• I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.

  Dieter Rams

  Names, Voice, Apples

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• That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do.

  Michael Lewis

  Sheep, People, Gold

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• No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Dark, News, Strategy

  "CFIF General Counsel Talks With Veteran CBS Reporter Bernard Goldberg About Media Bias". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. August 12, 2004.

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• A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.

  Robert McKee

  Powerful, Drama, Light

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.

  Richard Halliburton

  Beautiful, Indulge In, Wish

  RICHARD HALLIBURTON (1925). “THE ROYAL ROAD TO ROMANCE”

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• Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going to do with it? Certainly not squander its gold on the commonplace quest for riches and respectability, and then secretly lament the price that had to be paid for these futile ideals. Let those who wish have their respectability -- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and the romantic.

  Richard Halliburton

  Beautiful, Indulge In, Wish

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