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The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.


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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.


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What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.


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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.


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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
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There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.


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There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
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Where do you even draw the line between genres?


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With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.


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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.


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You don't really see too many straight friendships between men and women on 'Mad Men.'


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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.


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