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• The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

  Charles Reznikoff

  Tired, Night, Journey

  Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.157, David R. Godine Publisher

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• They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

  Mike Judge

  Humor, Giving, Laughing

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• We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sports, Running, Children

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.416, 谷月社

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• It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed toward goodness, just as water tends to flow downwards. There is no water but flows downwards, and no man but shows his tendency to be good. Now, by striking water hard, you may splash it higher than your forehead, and by damming it, you may make it go uphill. But, is that the nature of water? It is external force that causes it to do so. Likewise, if a man is made to do what is not good, his nature is being similarly forced.

  Mencius

  Men, Water, East

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• Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

  John Denver

  Ifs

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• Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles - and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech - look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

  Philip Roth

  Mother, Humorous, Florida

  "Portnoy's Complaint". Book by Philip Roth, 1969.

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• There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Heaven, Noise, Next

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• We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

  Janet Fitch

  Block, Different Universes, House

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• Classical scores go up and down; they're kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more - they just drive and move forward, and they build and can't go up and down at that same speed. It's a big job to turn that into something that pushes the movie along.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Jobs, Moving, Way

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• The thumb does not have very a important role when shifting from one position to another. There is too much said, as it seems to me, about importance of the thumb... The thumb must lightly touch the neck and follow the forefinger when moving in different positions, aiding the hand to shift up and down without clutching the instrument.

  Leopold Auer

  Moving, Hands, Important

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• In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Sea, People, Hollywood

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

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• When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Jumping, People

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• If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Discovery, Ignorant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.66

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• Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

  Horace

  Death, Running, Law

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• I had Alex Riley out there as well and he's jumping up and down excited. You know, hugging me and the fans are going nuts and booing me.

  The Miz

  Jumping, Nuts, Wwe

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• A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise is like a monkey who can only climb down a tree. In fact neither the up monkey nor the down monkey is a viable creature. A real monkey must find food and escape his enemies and so must be able to incessantly climb up and down. A real mathematician must be able to generalise and specialise.

  George Polya

  Real, Math, Tree

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• Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Weight, Results, Begets

  Dr Joel Fuhrman (2014). “The End of Dieting: How to Live for Life”, p.14, Hay House UK

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• The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down into infinity. This is not Hegel's ingenuity, it is his responsiveness to the organic structure in us that echoes itself throughout the whole architecture.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Echoes, Subjectivity

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• Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

  Anne Frank

  Dark, Wings, House

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.86, Bantam

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• Rather than taking an easy route, taking a difficult route is more satisfying and interesting. Life is hard at times; life is easy at other times. It zig zags and spins round and round. It goes up and down When all that is done, you’ll probably smile and say, “I lived a very fun life

  Minzy

  Fun, Interesting, Life Is Hard

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• Everybody is jumping up and down back in Russia. Probably lots of vodka, too.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Russia, Jumping, Vodka

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• It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.

  Cesar Millan

  Goal, Humans, Explorers

  "Cesar Millan: Changing The World One Dog Owner At A Time". Interview with Jeff Witzeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2010.

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• It feels a long way up and down from zero.

  May Sarton

  Zero, Long, Way

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.248, Open Road Media

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• There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Horse, Jumping, Light

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• A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Men, Garden

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.26

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