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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind. -- Jasper Fforde
Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes above described? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes? -- Isaac Newton
I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail. -- Humphrey Lyttelton
I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood. -- Tim Heidecker
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. -- Bette Midler
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core. -- Robert Pinsky
Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests. -- Peer Steinbruck
After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe. -- Robbie Fowler
During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other. -- Gabriel Lippmann
It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves. -- James Welch
I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for. -- Donna Tartt
Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be? -- Nigel Farage
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance. -- Annie Dillard
I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes. -- Markus Zusak
I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business. -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted. -- Pat Metheny
With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center. -- Rich Cohen
I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way. -- Mark Bradford
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. -- Florence Kelley
Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush. -- Noam Chomsky
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot. -- Margaret Atwood
When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes! -- Otto Preminger
Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market. -- Scott D. Anthony
The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety. -- Ian Mcewan
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I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion. -- J. K. Rowling
The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes. -- John Desmond Bernal
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. -- Ansel Adams
When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes. -- Lori Lansens
Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. -- Stephen Chbosky
He didn't realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria. -- Alexandra Robbins
A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen. -- Laurie Beth Jones
They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing to the outer suburbs. -- Kenny Johnson
Part of living is understanding where the fringes are. Once you know how far people go, you can say, "Well, here's how I choose to represent myself." -- Morgan Spurlock
Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one. -- Shane Claiborne
You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system. -- Chris Crutcher
The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules. -- Elizabeth Warren

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