"Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard."
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"If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is."
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"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."
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"Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing."
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"Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves."
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"This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion."
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"Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible."
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"Everything you say; every thought you entertain; and everything you do has a direction, which serves as an advance or a retreat in respect to your pursuit of excellence. Everything, regardless of size or intent, has bottom-line consequences; therefore, everything counts - this is the golden rule of excellence."
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"Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger."
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"We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science."
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"The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred."
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"… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!"
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"Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power."
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"Time cannot bend the line which God has writ."
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"I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions."
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"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime."
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"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."
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"With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly."
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"Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts."
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"One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue."
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