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• Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor - or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted with the edge. Hey, if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago.

  Duncan Ferguson

  Hurt, Men, Hiking

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• Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Husband, Kissing, Thinking

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.79, Open Road Media

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• THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Stars, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.112, Graphic Arts Books

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• The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Past, Soul, Doe

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• Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate to feel something, anything, that we keep falling into each other and f*****g our way toward the end of days.

  M.I.A.

  Fall, America, Civilization

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• Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Meaning Of Life, Razors, Sides

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• I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Friendship, Young Friends, Play

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.271, Pan Macmillan

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• Separate yourself from your ideas and your work and see them as something separate from yourself, you’ll feel you truly have the right to be wrong. If an idea fails, why not let it be the idea’s fault instead of your own? Allow your ideas to fail without turning them into personal defeat. When you fail you discover your boundaries. You map out the edges of your capabilities. And this allows you to eventually move beyond them. Being wrong eventually leads to being right. And even where it doesn’t, it’s still a more interesting path than being nothing.

  Steve Pavlina

  Moving, Ideas, Interesting

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• Old golfers don't win (it's not an absolute, it's a general rule). Why? The older golfer can hit the ball as far as the young one. He chips and putts equally well. And will probably have a better knowledge of the course. So why does he take the extra stroke that denies him victory? Experience. He knows the downside, what happens if it goes wrong, which makes him more cautious. The young player is either ignorant or reckless to caution. That is his edge. It is the same with all of us. Knowledge makes us play safe. The secret is to stay childish.

  Paul Arden

  Winning, Player, Victory

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• The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

  Bob Black

  Inspiration, Mean, Maps

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• You check into the hotel and see you're booked for seven nights. But you know you might be leaving in a day or two. It's exciting for the fans. But you're on edge. And you're on edge the whole round.

  Ernie Els

  Night, Two, Leaving

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• Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Ideas, People, Interest

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• I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  People, Want, Break

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• My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

  Hermann Maier

  Attitude, Racing, Pressure

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• I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.

  Hiroshi Yamauchi

  Cutting, Epic, Technology

  "Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans" by Matt Casamassina, www.ign.com. March 14, 2006.

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• I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

  John H. Johnson

  Believe, People, Dare

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• The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Artist, World, May

  Osbert Sitwell (1977). “Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography”

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• Not just any talk is conversation; not any talk raises consciousness. Good conversation has an edge: it opens your eyes to something, quickens your ears. And good conversation reverberates: it keeps on talking in your mind later in the day; the next day, you find yourself still conversing with what was said. That reverberation afterward is the very raising of consciousness; your mind's been moved. You are at another level with your reflections.

  James Hillman

  Eye, Reflection, Talking

  James Hillman, Michael Ventura (1992). “We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worse”, Harpercollins

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• When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Dream, Killing, Creation

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Mar 17, 2014

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• I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Regret, Decision

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• I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

  Beck

  Song, Work, Thinking

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• Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. Discipline. My name is C...M...Punk.

  CM Punk

  Inspiring, Tattoo, Wrestling

  "Extreme Championship Wrestling", July 4, 2006.

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• Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod
  And where power and position are equated with the grace of God
  These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast
  From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east

  Jackson Browne

  Country, Time, Grace

  Song: Looking East, Album: Looking East, 1996

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• Sever the edge between before and after.

  Takuan Soho

  Before And After

  Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc

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• Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book whats really at stake, but ultimately its not about them - its always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.

  Andrew Gross

  Meaningful, Book, Issues

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