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Intersections are crash magnets. -- Tom Vanderbilt
Every doorway, every intersection has a story. -- Katherine Dunn
Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection. -- Tyler Perry
Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. -- Samuel Johnson
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. -- Todd Gitlin
Being a rockstar is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be. -- Slash
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). -- Stephen Covey
Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. -- Margaret Atwood
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. -- Amartya Sen
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? -- Justin Rosenstein
If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles. -- Alfred Adler
Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before. -- Clayton Christensen
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it. -- Douglas Coupland
I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident. -- Jack Anderson
It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both. -- David Caruso
The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another. -- John O. Brennan
The temple is a point of intersection between heaven and earth. In this sacred place, holy work will be performed through selfless service and love. The temple reminds [us] of all that is good and beautiful in the world. -- David A. Bednar
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. -- Octavio Paz
You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane. -- Bill Bryson
I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do. -- Steve Jobs
At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'. -- Paul Caponigro
No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads. -- Deepak Chopra
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion. -- Barack Obama
The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and movements - all combine to create dynamic situations that provide the photographer with limitless choices of when to push the button. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal. -- Constantine Manos
Life happens at intersections. -- Jack Dorsey
The geometry of the things around us creates coincidences, intersections. -- Erri De Luca
We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections. -- Tyler Perry
From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought. -- Mina P. Shaughnessy
Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous. -- Stacy Schiff
The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
You're going to come to a lot of intersections in your life, Natalie, roads and otherwise, and you can't always just turn around. You have to summon the courage to go forward. -- Priscilla Cummings
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Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections. -- Ted Chiang

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