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"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." »Charlotte Bronte
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"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you" »Kahlil Gibran
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"Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power." »Thomas Hobbes
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"...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee." »Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909–14, p.1)
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"When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near." »Samuel Hoffenstein
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"A turtle with no legs tends not to go anywhere." »J & A Foundation
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"Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed." »Hoshang N. Akhtar
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?" »Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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"The first time I saw Elvis - He put rhythm in my legs." »Johnny Wowk
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"We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him." »Bertolt Brecht
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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)" »Mao Zedong
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"It was a turkey He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax." »Charles Dickens
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"There isnothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs." »Diana Nyad
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"College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks." »H. L. Mencken
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"The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning." »Nathan M. Pusey
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"If it had got four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and it flies, but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. (commenting on Chinese eating habits at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund coference)" »Prince Phillip
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"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not." »Soren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness Unto Death"
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"Happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form 'spokes.' Happiness is when he stops." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature." »William Sherman Pene du Bois
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"A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two." »Richard Kehl
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"The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)" »Ronald Reagan
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"Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here What was it about Was it her smile Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night." »Sybil Adelman
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"The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet." »Jeremy Rifkin
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"One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight." »James Grover Thurber
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"You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men." »Max Beerbohm
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"Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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