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«With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure [like a hardy crustacean]. We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.»
Author: Gail Sheehy
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
crustacean, embryonic, exposed, Hardy, passage, protective, shed, stretching, structure, vulnerable, yeasty
«Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet»
«Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason»
«... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.»
Author: Michael J. Gelb
| Keywords:
accelerate, accelerated, accelerates, accelerating, competence, perceived, stretching
«When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.»
Author: Brian Tracy
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abilities, abut, actin, confident, engage, maximum, positive, purposeful, stretching, systematic, using
«The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone throughout the land»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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battlefield, battlefields, cords, hearthstone, mystic, patriot, stretching
«When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
artificial, bleat, bleating, brute, contracting, etc., etc, first of all, free expression, grammar, hypercritical, interjection, lamb, lawless, mother tongue, particles, poetic, quarreling, requisite, Rules of, speaker, stretching, truest
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