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• Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

  Wayne LaPierre

  School, Gun, Law

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

  C.D. Wright

  Would Be, Function

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.8, Copper Canyon Press

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• Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

  Alan Cohen

  Moving, Healing, Comfort

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• The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing to stop the collapse. If this sounds like advice to get out of the markets and hide out in cash, it is.

  David Stockman

  War, Japan, Advice

  "State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America" by David A. Stockman, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2013.

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• Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Stupid, Relief, Helping

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• In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters, had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination, liberated America from foreign rule, united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the constitution, established universal religious freedom, invented a new system of warfare, marched an army from Canada to Brazil, and opened roads of commerce in a free-trade zone that stretched across the continents.

  Jack Weatherford

  Religious, Determination, Army

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• I don’t need to go out there and trick guys, and I don’t need to go out there and be perfect. I've just got to attack the strike zone, let my stuff work and get much better results that way.

  Stephen Strasburg

  Perfect, Guy, Needs

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• Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Comfort, Strive, Bigs

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• I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

  J. R. Martinez

  Challenges, Important, Comfort

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• Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

  Stan Dale

  Stay Strong, Comfort, Coffins

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• Life begin at the end of your Comfort Zone. So if you`re feeling uncomfortable right now, know that the change taking place in your life is a begining, not an ending

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Feelings, Comfort, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 31, 2016

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• You will have a growing knack for gravitating toward wilder, wetter, more interesting problems. More and more, you will be drawn to the kind of gain that doesn't requite pain. You'll be so alive and awake that you'll cheerfully push yourself out of your comfort zone in the direction of your personal frontier well before you're forced to do so by divine kicks in the ass.

  Rob Brezsny

  Pain, Blessing, Interesting

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• Those who staying with the wrong reward,(eg. stay in comfort zone, etc.), long enough will get problem.

  Albert Einstein

  Long, Comfort, Rewards

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• But again and again, we should reflect back to the darkness of the cocoon. In order to inspire ourselves forward, we must look back to see the contrast with the place we came from. You see, we cannot reject the world of the cocoon - which out which we may create a new cocoon. When we see the suffering that occured in the old cocoon, that inspires us to go forward in our journey of warriorship. It is a journey that is unfolding within us.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Journey, Order, Inspire

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• One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone

  Sarah Glidden

  Travel, Feelings, Comfort

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• Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful, Greatness, Comfort

  Twitter post from Dec 14, 2016

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• I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die.

  Edward John Trelawny

  Yield, Tree, Love And Friendship

  Edward John Trelawny (1835). “Adventures of a Younger Son”, p.506

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• It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you. Performing in sex scenes that I direct, exposing a flash of my weird puffy nipple, those things don't fall into my zone of terror.

  Lena Dunham

  Sex, Fall, Brave

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.113, Random House

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• Why do the easy expected thing? It takes guts to follow your dreams. Courage. Many people, even those who love you, don't understand how compelling that can be, and will try to keep you in the “safety zone”. But f*#! that. Half the fun is venturing into the unknown, taking on the difficult task that yields new knowledge, doing more and testing your limits.

  Marshall Ulrich

  Dream, Fun, Love You

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• Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Hate, People, Cynical

  Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee (2016). “Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century”, p.33, Ballantine Books

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• Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Mistake, Simple, Silence

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• Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

  John Ralston Saul

  Lying, Ideas, Intellectual

  "Reflections of a Siamese Twin". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1997.

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• We always have the potential to rise. Rise out of our slump. Rise out of our negative thoughts. Rise out of our comfort zone. Rise out of our complaints. GET UP AND RISE. Rising is a choice that's one powerful thought away.

  Kris Carr

  Powerful, Choices, Slumps

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• I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Thinking, Trying, Comfort

  "Queen Rania: World Cannot Afford To Be Cynical". Interview with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. April 22, 2009.

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