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• Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness. The only way we can advance is by going forward, individually and collectively, in the spirit of the pioneer. We must take the risks involved in our free enterprise system. This is the only way in the world to economic freedom. There is no other way.

  Ray Kroc

  Pride, Achievement, Risk

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.161, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Me and a mate picked up two darling birds and they took us back to their flat. I went into the bedroom with my bird and she started getting undressed. I was that drunk I was standing there wondering how to get undressed without letting go of the award. I went to sit on the bed, missed it by four feet and ended up lying on the floor. I remember the bird looking down at me, and saying, ‘Some player of the year.’ Then I fell asleep. I woke up still clutching my award and staggered out of the flat. I hadn’t a bloody clue where I was.

  George Best

  Letting Go, Lying, Player

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• I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on a wall. I wanted my work to say something other than the usual- the usual format for an artwork being a rectangle, a square, or anything flat, framed, and attached or hooked on the wall. That was accepted practice, mainline thinking.

  Nancy Spero

  Wall, Thinking, Squares

  "Art as a Continuum. Nancy Spero". ART21 Interview, art21.org.

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• Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.

  Steve House

  Self, Transcendence, Framework

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• The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.

  James Hansen

  Mean, Years, Growth

  "Global Temperature Update Through 2012" by James Hansen, M. Sato and R. Ruedy, January 15, 2013.

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• The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade

  James Hansen

  Mean, Years, Lasts

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• To every man there openeth a way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, and the low soul gropes the low. And in between, on the misty flats, the rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth a high way and a low, and every man decideth the way his soul shall go.

  William Arthur Dunkerley

  Men, Choices, Soul

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• Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.

  Willie Stargell

  Motivational, Sports, Natural

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• The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people.

  John Entwistle

  People, Netherlands, Wet

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• I treat the camera like a person—I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

  Cara Delevingne

  Cameras, Needs, Treats

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• I have fallen in love with American names,
  The sharp names that never get fat,
  The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,
  The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
  Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Love, War, Names

  'American Names' (1927)

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• Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Powerful, Space

  Donald Judd (2005). “Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews, Book Reviews, Articles, Letters to the Editor, Reports, Statements, Complaints”, Halifax, N.S. : Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

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• It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,’ we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.

  Cyril Connolly

  Believe, Beer, Over You

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• Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Player, Swings, Arms

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• Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

  Stuart Wilde

  Life, Spiritual, Journey

  Stuart Wilde (1993). “More Love: Tender Moments”, White Dove International

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• I’ve come to believe that connecting is one of the most important business—and life—skill sets you’ll ever learn. Why? Because, flat out, people do business with people they know and like. Careers—in every imaginable field—work the same

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Believe, Skills, Careers

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.19, Crown Business

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• It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Long, Pages, Rockets

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• If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Writing, Editing, Kicking

  Rudolf Flesch (1946). “The Art of Plain Talk”

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• Negroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose.

  Frederick Hertz

  Dark, Skins, Noses

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• Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

  Viktor Suvorov

  Military, Lying, Army

  Viktor Suvorov (1987). “Spetsnaz: The Story Behind the Soviet SAS”

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• I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Pain, Lying, Empathy

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• Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to the new striving and suffering. And not merely "some day." Now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mother, Suffering, Earth

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• If you’re frustrated because you’re not getting what you want, stop for a second: Have you actually flat-out asked for it? If you haven’t, stop complaining. You can’t expect the world to read your mind. You have to put it out there, and sometimes putting it out there is as simple as just saying, “Hey, can I have that?

  Sophia Amoruso

  Simple, Mind, Frustrated

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#Girlboss”, p.110, Penguin UK

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• The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men know of death, but they do not expect it of a sudden, and it comes upon them unawares. So, though the dry flats extend far out, soon the tide comes and floods the beach.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Beach, Men, Order

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it you're presumed to fall off, into insanity. And people are very much afraid of that. I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics. There's a very close analogue there.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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