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When a big tree falls, the ground shakes
Rajiv Gandhi
Big
Tree
Ground
Shakes
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Everyday above the ground is a blessing, always give thanks.
Patoranking
Blessing
Thanks
Gratitude
Always
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When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?
Aeschylus
Black
Mortal
Blood
Ground
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston
Every
Opportunity
Ground
Sun
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A bird that flies from the ground onto an anthill does not know that it is still on the ground.
African Proverbs
Bird
From
Ground
Know
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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
B. B. King
Worry
Much
Ground
Know
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Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.
Yasmin Mogahed
Never
Curse
A
Ground
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
Yitzhak Rabin
Also
City
Ground
Heart
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The grass is greener when you water the ground. that's what I found when I took the the ride.
Adekunle Gold
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Greener
Water
Ground
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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
Henry Rollins
Society
Chained
Nailed
Floor.Weakness
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In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.
Henry Rollins
Group
Ground
Broken
Stopped
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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Frank Lloyd
Bred
Buildings
Character
Environment
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Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
Florence Nightingale
About
Any
Box
Came
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Chamber
Common
First-Rate
Furniture
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass
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Crops
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass
Agitation
Crops
Favor
Freedom
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Determine
Future
Ground
Hierarchy
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
George Santayana
Always
Ground
Pleasant
Something
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu
Close
Conflict
Control
Dwelling
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle
Done
Flowing
Good
Good Man
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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
Flying
Ground
Knack
Learning
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
Flying
Ground
Learning
Miss
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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.
Abba Eban
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.
Walter Benjamin
Ground
Past
Theatre
Cities
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There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
Rumi
Again
Go
Go Home
Ground
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John Lennon
Everybody
Foot
Ground
Loves
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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.
John Muir
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.
John Muir
Best
Depends
Desirable
Feed
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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.
John Muir
Another
Approaching
Columns
Enchantment
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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.
Nina Simone
Dream
Married
Year
Nelson Mandela
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. Salinger
Enough
Ground
How
Legs
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders
Abigail Van Buren
Children
Feet
Responsibility
Shoulders
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“Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne.â€
Leonard Ravenhill
Preacher
Keep
Eyes
Throne
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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
Zoroaster
Sows
Ground
Care
Diligence
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Mao Zedong
Deaths
Benefits
Fertilize
Ground
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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.
Mariah Carey
Best
Friend
Good
GoodPerson
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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.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Trees
Hugged
Ground
Quivering
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The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We’re saved by works, but they’re not our own.
R. C. Sproul
Justification
Perfect
Works
Saved
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I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.
Patton Oswalt
Car
Drive
Enjoy
Gonna
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I have my go-to products. It's hard not to come off very self-promoting, but the truth is, I don't make any product that I don't personally wear. In terms of things I can't live without, my Lock-It Foundation and my Featherweight Primer set the groundwork for my makeup.
Kat Von D
Any
Come
Foundation
Groundwork
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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Dante Alighieri
Ground
Eyes
Eternal
Wheels
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Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.
Reese Witherspoon
Attention
Feet
Ground
Grow
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Laurence Sterne
Capture
Groundwork
Heart
Lessons
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War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.
Kenneth Kaunda
War
Jungle
Bush-clearing
Thicker
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
Henri Matisse
Influence
Nature
Able
Walk firmly
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Discussion
Fresh
Ground
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When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.
Jamaica Kincaid
About
Garden
Ground
I Think
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I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.
Robert Duvall
Develop
Ground
Like
Things
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It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
Horace Greeley
Impossible
Enslave
Mentally
Human freedom
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Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.
Vincent Bugliosi
Winning
Getting up
More time
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