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• A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to the maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods.

  Henrietta Swan Leavitt

  Stars, Simple, Two

  "Periods of 25 Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud". Harvard College Observatory Circular, vol. 173, (pp. 1-3), 1912.

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• The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother.

  Ilona Andrews

  Brother, Imagination, Vampire

  Ilona Andrews (2015). “Magic Gifts: A Kate Daniels Novella”, p.44, Penguin

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• It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.

  Jan Morris

  Curves, Lines, Facts

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• Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

  Cecelia Ahern

  Rope, Lines, Height

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• In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

  Will Durant

  Philosophy, Distance, Two

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down.

  Jay-Z

  Stress, School, Jumping

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.206, Random House Group

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• I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Angel, Nfl

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• Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall close to the [straight] line.' Questioner: 'Professor Brown, I am delighted that the points which fell off the line proved, on reinvestigation, to be in compliance. I wonder, however, if you have had your students reinvestigate all these points that previously fell on the line to find out how many no longer do so?'

  Herbert C. Brown

  Fall, Science, Lines

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• Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

  Joan Jett

  Ladders, Lines, Reach Out

  "Joan Jett Opens Up About Her Biggest Transformation Yet And Looks Back On What Could've Been". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

  Horace Walpole

  Art, Mind, Lines

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• Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Intuition

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• The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

  Frederick Lenz

  Distance, Buddhism, Science

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• No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.

  Harry Chapin

  Cutting, Lines, Dead Ends

  Song: Circle, 1972

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• When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Moving, Thinking, Mind

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• God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Circles, Ideas, Return

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”

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• For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens) it has been used more and more economically for reasons of truth (Millet, Monet, Paul Cézanne) until it will end as the straight line for reasons of Love. This will enable the art of the future to create an international form; a form understandable to all and vital enough to the expression of a general feeling of love in a monumental way. Such is the future.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Expression, Feelings

  "Onafhankelijke bespiegelingen over de kunst" by Theo van Doesburg, De Avondpost Journal, January 23, 1916.

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• The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, Drunk, Body

  Tennessee Williams, Mel Gussow, Kenneth Holdich (2000). “Plays: 1957-1980: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur”, Hubsta Ltd

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• London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.

  James Geary

  New York, Cities, Brain

  "On London". jamesgeary.com. July 16, 2006.

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• The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway. Rather, the car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.

  Fritz Todt

  Distance, Moving, Men

  "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling". Book by David E. Nye, 2000.

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• The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

  Theodor Adorno

  Distance, Two, People

  "Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life". Book by Theodor W. Adorno, 1951.

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• If you're lucky, you don't think in a straight line.

  Gene Simmons

  Thinking, Lucky, Lines

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Self, Pieces, Lines

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Circles, Shapes, Lines

  Source: bigthink.com

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• "As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

  William Henry Maule

  Expression, Crow, Lines

  Stokes v. Grissell, 23 L. J. Rep. Part 7 (N. S.), Com. PL 144, 1854.

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• ...the differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a curve, and cannot lead to an epistemological priority of Euclidean geometry, in contrast to the views of certain authors.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Space, Curves, Views

  Hans Reichenbach (1958). “Philosophie Der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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