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I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

Because Better Did Ground
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Ear Elegance Flexibility Glued
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Ground Past Theatre Cities
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I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

Background Come Even Ever
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There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

Again Go Go Home Ground
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A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.

Fears Office Scores Past
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Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
Everybody Foot Ground Loves
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The discipline of desire is the background of character.
Background Character Desire Discipline
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It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.
Common Common Ground Find Get
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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

About As Far As Discontented Far
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In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.

Best Depends Desirable Feed
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

Bark Birds Brush Centuries
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No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

Another Approaching Columns Enchantment
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Any Background Been Biology
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Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Beautiful Beauty Consider Deep
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I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

Anything Background Blues Change
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
Inclined Think Military Background
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I've got a very interesting background.

Background Got Interesting Very
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.

Always Apparent Background Front
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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

Dream Married Year Nelson Mandela
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Because Begin Care Environment
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

Enough Ground How Legs
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Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

Background Behind Hideous Know
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Artificial Backgrounds Conformity Consequences
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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Conductor Conductors Eight I Can
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Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.

Major Common Point Tension
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders

Children Feet Responsibility Shoulders
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“Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne.”

Preacher Keep Eyes Throne
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.

Progress Human Pull Push
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Am Beasts Become Bread
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I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.

Character Come Comedies Different
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He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers

Sows Ground Care Diligence
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For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

Prohibition Create Underground
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My goal was to tell a dialogue between high fashion and streetwear. So, the name Off-White, in my mind, is between black and white. So, that middle ground is a mixture between both genres of fashion.

Between Black Black And White Both
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Democracy Educated Grounded Healthy
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My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.

Dream Grounded Feet Life
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I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.

Am Far Grounded I Am
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The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

Life Hardest Stay Gate
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Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

Unseen Background Fate Quietly
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There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

Ssound Background Sheep Gently
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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

Curious Great Revolutionary-movement Question
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But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

Nature Lines Luminous Masses
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While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.

Students Draw Finished Background
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.

Believe Doing End God
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Deaths have benefits. They can fertilizes the ground.
Deaths Benefits Fertilize Ground
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

Playground Picked Guy Best-players
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I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

Always Anytime Anywhere Background
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I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

Best Friend Good GoodPerson
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Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.
Dilated Atmosphere Luxury Climate
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About the trees my arms I wound; Like one going mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky.

Trees Hugged Ground Quivering
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