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A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

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I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines

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He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

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There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

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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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Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

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I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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I didn't set a red line, the world set a red line

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No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

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I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.

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The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?

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You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

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