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• An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dog, Sunday, White

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• You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.

  Tony Robbins

  Running, Kingdoms, Lots Of Money

  Tony Robbins (2010). “Unlimited Power a Black Choice”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not scared of doing movies that are just about entertainment. I'm not scared of doing movies that are really challenging and cover difficult terrain. I just want good experiences and I want to challenge myself and I want to just keep learning, as an actor.

  Joel Edgerton

  Challenges, Entertainment, Actors

  "Exclusive: Joel Edgerton Talks THE THING, THE GREAT GATSBY, and Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama Bin Laden Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.

  Bobby Jones

  Team, Golf, Men

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• Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Epilepsy, Life Is, Geometry

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.

  Alexander Payne

  Giants, Needs, Cinema

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Not loving is a letting go.
  Listen,
  The terrain around here
  Is
  Far too
  Dangerous
  For
  That.

  Hafez

  Letting Go, Dangerous

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• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  Natasha Leggero

  Thinking, Interesting, Becoming

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• To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

  A.C. Grayling

  Reading, Views, Ideas

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• If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.

  Criss Jami

  Shoes, May, Generations

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.35, Criss Jami

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• I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an historic monument, but it does not deserve all the respect given it when it is said it is perfect, original and coherent expression of a past that we must revere. Orsay is basically a box.

  Gae Aulenti

  Past, Expression, Perfect

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• To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Writing, Imagination, Might

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.57, Penguin

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• Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings... I try to move into his terrain, bringing my own ammunition... I do not believe... that this belittles my own personality.

  Rico Lebrun

  Believe, Moving, Personality

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• The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate the hazardous terrain of interlocking patents. Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Army, Technology, Innovation

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world”, Century

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• Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream, press to discover, explain, and dream again, thereby plunging repeatedly into new terrain, the world will somehow come clearer and we will grasp the true strangeness of the universe. And the strangeness will all prove to be connected, and make sense.

  E. O. Wilson

  Faith, Dream, Age

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• We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over and make room for new stakeholders, new players, and new leaders of many kinds. Nobody in Charge, drawing on the learnings of a wise and widely experienced public executive, offers some priceless insights into how things have changed, where they are now, and where we may be going next in this bewildering terrain.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Wise, Moving, Player

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• It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was at my back. The terrain was rolly but not big hills. The first miles were like usual tough, but I felt quite good from there till the end of 10 miles.

  Terry Fox

  Wind, Long, Usual

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• Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit, we ourselves become actors in the story, and this world becomes the realm in which the sacred must be honored and freedom created.

  Starhawk

  Stories, Actors, World

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• Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

  Susan Sontag

  Ignorance, Disease, States

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

  Hakeem Jeffries

  Political, Definitions, Helpful

  "Interview With Hakeem Jeffries, Candidate for New York’s 8th Congressional District". Interview with Andrew Wilkes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• The sweet spot: that productive, uncomfortable terrain located just beyond our current abilities, where our reach exceeds our grasp. Deep practice is not simply about struggling; it's about seeking a particular struggle, which involves a cycle of distinct actions.

  Daniel Coyle

  Sweet, Struggle, Practice

  Daniel Coyle (2010). “The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown”, p.92, Random House

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• We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

  Michael Herr

  Hands, Enemy, Warfare

  Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

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• When all the words have been written, and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain. We may map the terrains of our lives, measure the farthest reaches of the universe, but no amount of searching will ever reveal for certain whether we are all children of chance or part of a great design. And who among us would have it otherwise? Who would wish to take the mystery out of the experience of looking into a newborn infant's eyes?

  Kent Nerburn

  Children, Eye, Design

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.99, New World Library

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• And you bring your words,
  But you're just like them,
  You're unprepared
  'Cause you don't know the terrain

  Dar Williams

  Causes, Knows, Unprepared

  Song: It's A War In There, Album: End of the Summer

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• We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Shoes, Pace

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