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• Living rationally and authentically means understanding that life centrally involves making leaps of faith, both small and large, and that the value of living is to a large extent the value of experiencing your life, whatever that experience is.

  L.A. Paul

  Mean, Understanding, Leap Of Faith

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who have hijacked Islam for their own purposes. It's important not to fall into that trap and to try to respond with a metaphysical retaliation of some sort.

  Edward Said

  Crazy, Fall, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown.

  David Cameron

  Country, Believe, Choices

  "British Columnist Says It's Best The U.K. Leave The E.U". "Morning Edition" with David Green, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• When you start doing comedy, you think to yourself, "I want to be a headliner." And you become a headliner, and you're like, "Oh wait, this isn't what I meant. I meant I want to be a headliner that's famous enough that people come see me specifically." And that's a huge leap, because most of the time most of the audience is there to see comedy in general. They're not there to see you.

  Moshe Kasher

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• The beginning of a project or anything is what makes me feel vulnerable. How to take that first step. And the ending of anything. How to release what you know and leap into the unknown.

  Regina Taylor

  Firsts, Steps, Vulnerable

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• There was a period of time between 2005 and 2008 that was pretty challenging. I had taken a leap of faith and moved to Los Angeles from New York, which had been incredible to me professionally. I couldn't get arrested in this town. There was a lot of doubt and fear that crept in, and boy, did insecurity stick her foot up in it. There were many obstacles that were overcome during that very dark period - creative, financial, emotional, and spiritual - and I'm here, standing, stronger than ever.

  Erica Tazel

  Spiritual, New York, Taken

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• We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Technology, Connections, Tasks

  "A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain" by Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg, www.wired.com. June 1, 1995.

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• The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts.

  Loren Eiseley

  Fashion, Men, Creative

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• Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

  Robin Morgan

  Energy, Connections, Metaphor

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions”, p.270, Open Road Media

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• I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.

  Nancy Spain

  Clothes, Hair, Hats

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• All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.

  Pete Seeger

  Sports, Art, Believe

  Source: nysmusic.com

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• I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

  Robert Ben Garant

  Writing, Thinking, Stuff

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet.

  John William Fletcher

  Heart, Kissing, Lips

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• From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Media, Radio, Insult

  Leonore Fleischer (1991). “The Fisher King”, New Amer Library

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• You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Wish, Might, Next

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

  Peter Watts

  Self, Brain, Doe

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.220, Head of Zeus

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• You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

  Klaus Kinski

  Wall, Ghetto, Finding Yourself

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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• The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Infidelity, Depth, Treasure

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.109

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• I used to tiptoe up to my bedroom door and leap into my room in an attempt to surprise my dolls in the midst of some kind of action. Unfortunately, they were always too quick for me. I'm still disappointed about that.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Doors, Dolls, Rooms

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• A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Father, Lying, Home

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• Marriage is a leap of faith. You are each other's safety net.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Safety, Leap Of Faith, Safety Net

  Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.47, Penguin

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• I think we're in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve - you know, to be completely disgusted with injustice to the point that you will have to take some huge leaps of faith. And it may take one person leading many.

  Aisha Hinds

  Thinking, Leap Of Faith, Levels

  "At Last, Harriet Tubman Strides Onto Our Screens". Interview with David Greene, radio.wpsu.org. December 26, 2016.

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• To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That's a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it's the act of faith of the Christian community.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.

  Conor Oberst

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 07, 2015.

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• First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

  Hortense Calisher

  Dream, Book, Reading

  Hortense Calisher (1974). “Herself”

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