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Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even… — Unknown Author
Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or… — ZoÃ« Heller
The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations… — Javier Perez de Cuellar
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent… — Javier Perez de Cuellar
The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive… — Tom Hayden
The only thing I'm running for is the state line. — James Carville
Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would… — Beth Moore
Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally learned something of… — Hokusai
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing… — Eleanor Roosevelt
We know there is no progress in a straight line. — Swami Vivekananda
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest. — Bill Vaughan
I've seen a lot of real out-of-line attitudes since I have been in the WWF and those people are still there or are getting a… — Jerry Lawler
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud… — H. L. Mencken
These men were very much in the minority, but of course, being the 'Elect', they expected to be in a minority - the party of… — Simon Schama
...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants. — Derren Brown
Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by… — Isaac Newton
Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here… — Ingrid Newkirk
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita...."Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty. — Milan Kundera
Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but… — Maynard James Keenan
I knew when I wrote the line "light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson" [from the song "Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big… — Kanye West
There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life. — Marlon Brando
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. — Elmore Leonard
I've had a dozen people tell me, maybe more, 'What would have happened if Michael Brown had shot and killed Darren Wilson? Do you think… — Chris Hayes

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