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• The great affair, the love affair with life,
  is to live as variously as possible,
  to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred,
  climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day.
  Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding,
  and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours,
  life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length.
  It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
  but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Beautiful, Country

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• Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

  Stuart Chase

  Common Sense, World, Common

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa, 1952.

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• Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have created the situation - Mahavira would not have escaped to the mountains. Without marriage there would have been no Buddha, no Mahavira. Just think: the history would have been very flat, without any salt, tasteless. Marriage keeps this whole "sorry-go-round" on and on. People call it "merry-go-round".

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Sorry, Thinking

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• Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.

  Mike Cloud

  Libertarian, Succeed, Wheels

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• I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

  Betsey Johnson

  Clothes, Design, Body

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• It is flat-out strange that something-that anything-is happening at all. There was nothing then a Big Bang, then here we all are. This is extremely weird.

  Ken Wilber

  Life, Sex, Bangs

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Life, Long, Seems

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.607, Oxford University Press

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• Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Dark, Moon

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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• If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

  Robert Crandall

  Believe, World, Pilots

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• Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

  John Donne

  Love, Lying, Bed

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.213

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• Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.

  Alber Elbaz

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• Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them.

  Mal Peet

  Together, Different, Three

  Mal Peet (2006). “Tamar”, Walker Books Limited

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• If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.

  Greg Egan

  Fall, Gazing, Faces

  Greg Egan (2010). “Zendegi”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Because I was flat out wrong
  I'm on my knees
  Begging that you
  Will forgive me, please

  John Walter Bratton

  Sorry, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. . . . He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating in to clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him.

  John Dryden

  Book, Men, Soul

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668) on Shakespeare

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• What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is it finite, or is it infinite? Which of the following does space resemble more: (a) a sheet of paper, (b) an endless desert, (c) a soap bubble, (d) a doughnut, (e) an Escher drawing, (f) an ice cream cone, (g) the branches of a tree, or (h) a human body?

  Rudy Rucker

  Science, Drawing, Space

  Rudy von Bitter Rucker, Rudy Rucker (1985). “The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.

  Johann Hari

  Holocaust, Intellectual, Climate

  "The Shame of the Climate-change Deniers". www.independent.co.uk. April 24, 2005.

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• I'd share a pic if the digital camera battery wasn't as flat as 17th century Earth.

  Simon Haynes

  Technology, Cameras, Batteries

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• You know the world must be flat, because when people leave town they never come back.

  Hal Ketchum

  People, World, Towns

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• Never tell. Not if you love your wife...In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die.' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do.

  Lenny Bruce

  Marriage, Believe, Love You

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• Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up more place in the mind than it does in bed. Outside of that setting it falls flat into one-dimensional fiction.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Love, Fall, Passion

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• The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth.

  Matt Taibbi

  Discovery, Two, History

  "A sense of adventure" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2005.

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• If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.

  Kanye West

  Reading, Apology, Waiting

  "Kanye West New York Times Interview: Rapper Takes Back Taylor Swift Apology, Professes Love For Kim Kardashian", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2013.

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• The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

  Margaret Millar

  Nice, Fall, Simple

  Margaret Millar (2016). “Beyond This Point Are Monsters”, p.111, Soho Press

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• Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.

  Victor Borge

  Three, Moved

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