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«Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.»
Author: Ben Stein (Actor, Lawyer, Writer) | Keywords: dirty, fall flat, flat, flats, jump
«Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.»
«Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall»
«Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.»
«Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.»
«No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.»
«Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.»
«Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.»
«Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.»
«Nimble thought can jump both sea and land»

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