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  • There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

    John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan
  • To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.

    Eye   Reality   Views  
    Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, Vintage
  • Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

    Moving   Giving   Earth  
    Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.189, Penguin
  • Accepting responsibility is the fulcrum point for succeeding at anything.

    Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons
  • The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

    Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.167, Princeton University Press
  • Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

    "Christian Worldview". Interview with Julia Duin, www.washingtontimes.com. July 03, 2003.
  • Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

  • Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

    Peace   Moving   World  
  • The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

  • Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

    Moving   Giving   World  
  • Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime I don't know, and I'm not sitting around waiting for my father to be resurrected. Readers probably have the impression from the book that I'm a lot more a of a techno kook than I actually am. It became a convenient fulcrum in the story, sort of a kaleidoscope through which to address religious and spiritual questions.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.

    Order   Example   Looks  
    "Prize-winning author Graham Joyce to write script for Doom 4" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.
  • YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

    Life   Cities   Honor  
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.242, University of Georgia Press
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