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• The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Knights, Facts, Boards

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• A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Gratitude, Attitude, Blessing

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.

  Lena Horne

  Gratitude, Way, Bitterness

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• The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, Lying, Imagination

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• He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.

  Andrew Marvell

  Eye, Memorable, Mean

  "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" l. 57 (written 1650)

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• Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

  Pliny the Elder

  Dog, Fall, Wine

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• Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted.

  Ann Romney

  Children, Home, School

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• It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Long, Up To You, World

  "Honoria". Essay by Taylor Caldwell (1957), republished in "The New American", Volume 19, No. 20, October 6, 2003.

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• To get to Earth from the edge of the solar system, depending on the time of year and the position of the planets, you need to pass through at least Poland, Prussia, and Turkey, and you'd probably get stamps in your passport from a few of the other great powers. Then as you get closer to the world, you arrive at a point, in the continually shifting carriage space over the countries, where this complexity has to give way or fail. And so you arrive in the blissful lubrication of neutral orbital territory.

  Paul Cornell

  Country, Years, Turkeys

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• There is a lesson that I learned at twelve - the world does not end at the edge of a quad. There are people outside. The world does not end on the Fourth Level. There are people elsewhere. It took me two years to learn to apply the lesson - that neither does the world end with the Ship. If you want to accept life, you have to accept the whole bloody universe. The universe is filled with people, and there is not a single solitary spear carrier among them.

  Alexei Panshin

  Years, Two, People

  Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket

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• What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light.

  Ben Lerner

  Light, Tears, Fiction

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• Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

  Jon Ronson

  People, Mad, Personality

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• Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

  Prayer, Swings, Rome

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1983). “Seek the House of Relatives”

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• We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The moment is bleeding off the page. We live on the precipice of our perceptions. At the edge of every living instant, the world shears away like a cliff of ice into the sea of what is forgotten.

  Ivan Vladislavic

  Ice, Sea, Perception

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• Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

  Mark Lawrence

  Memories, Cutting, Dangerous

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.154, Penguin

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• It’s walking the razor’s edge of the sacred moment where you don’t know, you can’t count on, and comfort yourself with any sure hope. All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given. In that sense, this radical uncertainty liberates your creativity and courage.

  Joanna Macy

  Creativity, Comfort, Razors

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• People think edges are bad, but they are really there to keep up from falling to pieces. They don't hold us back, they hold us in. They hold us together.

  Lisa Mangum

  Fall, Thinking, People

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• Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Creativity, Character, Rough Edges

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• The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.

  Steven Johnson

  Shadow, Maps, Hovering

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.25, Penguin

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• When I reach to the edge of the universe, I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery, there are times when, at least for now, one must be content to love the questions themselves.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Discovery, Knowing, Path

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• Finding the funny is the key to never losing your edge

  Marie Forleo

  Keys, Losing, Findings

  Twitter post from May 13, 2015

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• We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep.
  Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep.
  While the media elite declare what to think,
  I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.

  Otep Shamaya

  Sleep, Thinking, Sheep

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• I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible.

  Jean Houston

  Hands, Would Be, Stories

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• By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.

  Vinton Cerf

  Innovation, Internet, Middle

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• If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Hurting Someone, Edgy, Rounds

  Danielle LaPorte (2012). “The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms”, p.209, Harmony

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