1,029 Quotes About Lines

  • Author John Green
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    We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

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  • Author John Green
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    Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.

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  • Author John Kenneth Galbraith
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    The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

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  • Author John W. Gardner
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    Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.

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  • Author John Kenneth Galbraith
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    Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.

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  • Author Jose Ortega y Gasset
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    In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.

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