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"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." »Elizabeth Harrison
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"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own." »Blaise Pascal
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward." »Henry Ford
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"Sex is emotion in motion." »Mae West
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"It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion." »Mentat Prayer
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"Everything is energy in motion." »Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
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"Never mistake motion for action." »Ernest Hemingway
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"If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves." »Roth Gabrielle
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"A motion to adjourn is always in order." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Money alone sets all the world in motion." »Publilius Syrus
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"Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards." »Charles W. Chesnutt
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"A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion." »Richard Byrd
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"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't." »Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
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"He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
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"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life." »Albert Camus
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"When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever." »Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
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"“By taking the time to contemplate where you are and where you want to be, you greatly empower yourself. It's a wonderful opportunity to finally set in motion the changes you want in your life."" »Steve Maraboli
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"Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration." »Kahlil Gibran
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"And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee." »Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
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"On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction." »A Bartlett Giamatti
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"Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress." »Alfred A. Montapert
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"If there was a big gardening convention, and you got up and gave a speech in favor of fast-motion gardening, I bet you would get booed right off the stage. They're just not ready." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." »Saint Augustine
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"We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised." »David Assael
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"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life." »William Faulkner
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"America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America" »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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"Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war" »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move." »Barbara Hall
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"The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer sways, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still." »Longfellow
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