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• No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

  Steven Pressfield

  Work, Artist, Entrepreneur

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.67, Black Irish Books

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• Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape.

  Ted Dekker

  Car, Balance, Tunes

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• At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed window – do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physically capable of no more, or does it eventually learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Giving Up, Survival, Trying

  "Forbidden". Book by Tabitha Suzuma, 2010.

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• At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke

  Aaron Allston

  Effort, Finals, Faces

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• I get so high when you're with me then crash and crave you when you leave

  Kesha

  Crave

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• This is where we go our seperate ways. Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls me back to him and says, "Yes." I look at him, unsure of what he's saying yes to. "The questions you asked earlier, about wanting to settle down, start a family, see my family? Yes. Yes to all of it." I try to swallow but can't, try to speak but the words just won't come. His hands sliding around me, grasping me to him, he lets go of the vial, allows it to fall, to crash to the ground. The sparkling green liquid seeping out all around as he says, "But mostly yes to you.

  Alyson Noel

  Letting Go, Fall, Hands

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• The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course.

  Gail Caldwell

  Grief, Courses

  Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.150, Random House

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• I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Crush, Storm, Mountain

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.630, Macmillan

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• Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Commitment, Citizens, Failing

  "Living together takes effort" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2005.

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• Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.

  Sybil Adelman

  Love You, Unrequited Love, Passion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus!.

  Brad Paisley

  Music, Song, Grateful

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• It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently sucking my brains out through my ear while trying to untwist the vacuum hose.

  Paula Poundstone

  Unique, Wish To Die, Brain

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• The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teamwork, Communication, Errors

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence, diversity, private judgement-disappear.

  James Surowiecki

  Intelligent, Diversity, Decision

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• When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Negativity, Progress

  Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999). “Politics of the Very Worst”, Semiotext

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• I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so.

  Fernando Alonso

  Believe, Fate, People

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• So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death?

  H. G. Wells

  War, Hero, Fighting

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The World Set Free: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.62, 谷月社

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• I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash course in mortality. You lie awake night after night, wondering if you really believe in heaven and hell and finding all kinds of reasons to cling to faith, because you can't bear to believe they aren't out there somewhere, a few whispered words of a prayer away.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Prayer, Lying, Love Yourself

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Nov 06, 2013

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• Sometimes hate is not enough to turn this all to ashes, together as one and against all others, break all of their wings to make sure it crashes.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Wings, Together

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• I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.

  Tony Hoare

  Pain, Errors, Years

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• The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons.

  Robert Byrd

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Warfare

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• Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Colin Campbell says that every member of the Georgia General Assembly with an IQ above 85 should be required to wear a crash helmet. That should take about ... oh, say 15 helmets?

  Neal Boortz

  Atlanta, Political, Georgia

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• Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Dancing, House, Kitchen

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• The car crash that took the lives of these two lovely people has been portrayed as a traffic accident caused by a drunk driving at high speed. The reality is that it was murder.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Reality, Two, Car

  "Mohamed Al Fayed to sue U.S. government to get documents on Diana and Dodi" by Raju Chebium, www.cnn.com. August 30, 2000.

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• He actually believes that she was murdered. The reality is, of course, also, that his car, his driver, were involved in this crash therefore there will be people that believe that he is ultimately responsible not only for the death of his own son, but for the death of the princess.

  Robert Jobson

  Believe, Princess, Son

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