Flats Quotes - Page 38

• We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility.

  Edwin Feulner

  Responsibility, Government, Practice

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• Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

  Donald Lambert

  Technology, Artist, Smell

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• Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

  Kirby Larson

  Life, Baking, Biscuits

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.4, Yearling

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• Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from imminent heart attack to a bad case of hangnail in fifteen years flat. We are very lucky people--but we need to use the time we have been granted wisely, because total war is only sleeping. All the major states are still organized for war, and all that is needed for the world to slide back into a nuclear confrontation is a twist of the kaleidoscope that shifts international relations into a new pattern of rival alliances.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Country, War, Sleep

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• A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.

  Mark McMorris

  Fall, Keys, Light

  Mark McMorris (2003). “The Blaze of the Poui: Poems”, p.69, University of Georgia Press

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• Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Believe, Thinking, Sky

  "The Apophenion: A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.

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• 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...What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought...occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like...because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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

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• A flat black bug, that is London.

  Paul Verlaine

  Black, London, Bugs

  Paul Verlaine (1962). “The Sky Above the Roof: Fifty-six Poems”

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• Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Groups, Doe, Body

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (1998). “Social Mobility”, p.12, Taylor & Francis

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• Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.

  Jeremiah Seed

  Looks, Admiration, Look Up

  Jeremiah Seed (1763). “Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London”, p.130

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• If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don't, that's wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don't shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn't get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop.

  Emma Watson

  Running, Opportunity, People

  "Emma Watson, The December 2014 ELLE Cover Interview" by Lorraine Candy, www.elle.com. June 03, 2015.

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• When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not have a flat tire, that you will get there on time, by talking up good results you invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Jobs, Talking, Law

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students.... There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Stars

  "Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal". edition.cnn.com. January 30, 2004.

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• In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

  Antony Flew

  Space, Forever, Understanding

  Antony Flew (2000). “Merely Mortal?: Can You Survive Your Own Death?”

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• It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it depends rather upon the fact that the evolutionary theory permeates and supports every branch of biological science, much as the notion of the roundness of the earth underlies all geodesy and all cosmological theories on which the shape of the earth has a bearing. Thus antievolutionism is of the same stature as flat-earthism.

  Peter Medawar

  Acceptance, Numbers, Support

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• The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.

  Gary Player

  Strong, Golf, Hands

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• I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.

  Leon Bridges

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Leon Bridges Comes Home". Interview with Steven Edelstone, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2015.

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• It's hard to go. It's scary and lonely...and half the time you'll be wondering why the hell you're in Cincinnati or Austin or North Dakota or Mongolia or wherever your melodious little finger-plucking heinie takes you. There will be boondoggles and discombobulated days, freaked-out nights and metaphorical flat tires. But it will be soul-smashingly beautiful... It will open up your life.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Beautiful, Lonely, Night

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• Rick Perry unveiled his new tax plan. He says he wants a flat tax. He believes that tax should be flat, just like the earth.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Earth, Want

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• It must be a very dour and pessimistic astronomer indeed who seriously doubts that there must be countless numbers of intelligent civilizations scattered throughout the universe on other planets which are orbiting around other stars. An attitude which asserts that man is the only intelligent life form in the universe is intolerably arrogant today ... anyone who holds such an opinion today is, fortunately for those who like to see some progress in human conceptions, something of an intellectual freak equivalent to a believer in the Flat Earth Theory.

  Robert K. G. Temple

  Stars, Attitude, Men

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• If I'm outside, I want something flat on my feet.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Want Something, Feet, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• High heels are like a beauty lift. In a flat you can feel beautiful, but a stiletto changes your mood, how you move - like a wild, beautiful animal. The idea was always to follow a women's wardrobe, her desires.

  Giuseppe Zanotti

  Beautiful, Moving, Animal

  "The Man, the Myth, The Shoes: Giuseppe Zanotti Celebrates 20 Years". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 18, 2014.

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• You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jesus, Lying, Heart

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.11, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either.

  Seth

  Death, Real, Fall

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• Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

  Voltaire

  Beauty, Eye, Two

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