"One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud."

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"One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud."

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Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

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"If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth."

Alan Patrick Herbert, British Novelist

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"I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth."

Nelson Goodman, American Philosopher

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"Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know."

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"One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud."

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