"You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs."
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"You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote!"
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"Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere."
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"As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere."
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"I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness."
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"Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us."
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"Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas .... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass."
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"An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you."
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"We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows."
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"Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions."
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"What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."
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"Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow."
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"You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart."
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"Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!"
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"Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst."
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"In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object."
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"If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him."
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"While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow."
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"If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow."
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"I have lost my faith in goals. At one time, they were like a religion to me. But I am starting to realize that goals by themselves are nothing more than an arrow pointing in a certain direction. The real magic is in the systems you create."
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