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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Benjamin Franklin

Cake Great Like Empire Most

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational Life Time Dance

A hangboard is a little piece of wood with edges, holes, and slopes. There's different strategies for different things - hanging, varying grips, adding weight. If I do a hard finger workout, I'm definitely sore.

Things Hard Wood Hanging

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Beauty Heart World Laughter

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Herman Melville

Truth Will Always Ragged

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

Elizabeth Warren

Family Heart Man You

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

Sometimes Writing Group Strange

It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.

Robert Downey, Jr.

You People Happy Fall

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

You Yourself Night Down

I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to really like them deeply - to value them as friends.

Me People Value Friends

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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Chuck Palahniuk

Love You Step Matter

I'm a student of Eric Church, and I say that a lot... I was drawn to it because of the honesty and because it's got rough edges on it. He doesn't shy away from anything, and that's the way I wanted to be.

Honesty Church Way Shy

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

Leadership Avoid Necessary Sharp

Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.

You Find Trying Inside

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

Love Beautiful Me You

Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.

Jacqueline Woodson

World About Seen Been

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Like Who Analysis Off

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Work Music Function Well

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Good Good Old Days Nostalgia Old

I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

Life Good Age I Am

I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it in everything - vinaigrettes, soups, stocks, salsas, so I'm always on the hunt for great honey.

Love Great Smoke Perfect

He is a regular guy who absolutely is not attracted to his own celebrity. He's a jokester, a little rough around the edges, with great heart and compassion; he loves his family. I feel very comfortable with him. I don't see 'Denzel Washington Star'; I just see Denzel.

Family Heart Great Feel

My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.

Attitude Myself Control Racing

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Barbara Walters

Success You Nice Go

There is this big yawning gap in the middle of British politics, the Conservative and Labour parties have gone to the edges. In this divided, polarised world, the pragmatic centre ground is a bit unloved.

Politics World Big Ground

America needs a president who knows how we live and work, who delivers on promises to those who need help, who won't use fear and hate as a political cudgel, and who works to solve our biggest problems instead of nibbling around the edges - a president who will go big, be bold, and do good, and stirs all Americans to do likewise.

Work Good Fear Hate

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