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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
Risk
Ray Bradbury

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
Courage
Ray Bradbury

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It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
Obstacles
Claude M. Bristol

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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
Tyranny
Emily Bronte

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Adversity
Les Brown

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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Aid and Assistance
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
Language
Anthony Burgess

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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Ambition
Lord Byron

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Books - Reading
Lord Byron

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Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Jealousy
Lord Byron

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
Life and Living
John C. Calhoun

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I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
Nostalgia
Callimachus

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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Autobiography
Elias Canetti

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I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.
Competition
Steve Cauthen

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Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
Simplicity
Chinese Proverb

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Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
Speakers and Speaking
Winston Churchill

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A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Committees and Meetings
Barnett Cock

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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Jealousy
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Writers and Writing
Jackie Collins

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Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
Ideals and Idealism
Eliza Cook

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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Strength
Calvin Coolidge

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.
Love
Princess of Wales Diana

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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
Conflict
Finley Peter Dunne

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.
Success
Jimmy Durante

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.
Money
Bill Earle

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun