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• A deeper thought on the surface is exactly the paradox we need.

  Nema Al-Araby

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• If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that’s fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

  Geri Halliwell

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• I’ve never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

  John Sexton

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• I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn’t like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

  Peter Sampras

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• Vanity is but the surface.

  Blaise Pascal

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• Only around 2% of the earth’s surface is cultivatable land.

  Susan George

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• What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

  Gavin Bryars

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• Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

  Samuel Beckett

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• It’s also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

  T Bone Burnett

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• We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature… In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.

  Lewis Thomas

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• We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

  Martin Luther King Jr

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• Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

  Charles Jaffe

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• On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we’re free and easy, and actually we’re far more moralistic than any other society I’ve ever lived in.

  Kathy Acker

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• Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

  Victor Hugo

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• Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

  Michael Caine

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• Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

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• Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

  Tillie Olsen

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