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• I guess my claustrophobia is incurable - feeling, as I tend to, ill at ease in any closed room, and always tempted to find out what is on the other side of the door.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Doors, Feelings, Rooms

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• It was always meant to ease out of a big radio song and flow into the next one. Don't is the bridge song in between Sing and Thinking Out Loud.

  Ed Sheeran

  Song, Thinking, Bridges

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• When I'm doing interiors - especially the ones where you really have full creative freedom - it's about creating an environment for people to feel so comfortable and at ease. I want them to become inspired to live and feel better.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Feel Better, Creating, People

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. That keeps a parent from being at ease and it really stifles the social and economic growth of a family. Women are hit hard across the board, but particularly in homes where the mother is the head of the household and the only wage-earner. It hurts her, and it hurts her children.

  Nina Turner

  Mother, Hurt, Children

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Leading with character gives the wise leader clear-cut advantages. They are easier to trust and follow; they honor commitments and promises; their words and behavior match; they are always engaged in and by the world; they are open to "reflective backtalk": they can speak with conviction because they believe in what they are saying...and everyone else knows that. They are comfortable in their own skin. They feel at ease in the spotlight and they enjoy it there. They tend to be more receptive to opportunity and risk.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Wise, Believe, Character

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus for financial capitalism and to ease the road for that capitalism. The other functions just irritate everyone: it's undemocratic; decisions are not made by parliament; the European Parliament is not sovereign.

  Tariq Ali

  Decision, Political, Nucleus

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that transformation that it reaches out for something permanent. And religious faith offers that, from simplicities, which you are told are eternal and unchanging, and you can hold on to those like a life raft in a metamorphosing world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Thinking, Simplicity

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Anyone who lives with poor health or chronic pain, or who has endured poverty - real poverty - knows what it is to live with lack and a resulting fear so incessant that it becomes thoroughly normalized, invisible in its ubiquity. If you're lucky enough to have that fear begin to ease, it's an odd experience. A stranglehold eases off your entire body, one you never fully realized was there.

  C.E. Morgan

  Pain, Real, Ubiquity

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere. There are always a few students who want me to be tough or harsh, but it's really not my style.

  Elaine Equi

  Writing, People, Atmosphere

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked, these two statements defy the ease of logic, but offer some really important truths about narrative art, at the very least, and about memory. So I would say that all art is personal.

  Kwame Dawes

  Art, Memories, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's ok to say I don't know. Realizing this earlier in my career would have put me more at ease.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Careers, Realizing, Knows

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly.

  Helen Thomas

  Fun, Home, Comfort

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• I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Sorry, Mean

  What Then Must We Do? ch. 16 (1886) (translation by Aylmer Maude)

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• To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

  Ricky Williams

  Jealousy, Thinking, Greed

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• I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.

  Tiger Woods

  Mean, Fishing, Games

  "Outtakes with Tiger Woods". Interview with Dan Patrick, www.espn.com. May 08, 2002.

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• Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Pain, Mind, Doe

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• While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way it connects everything to almost everything else. The hypertext link, as we used to call it, allows any fact or idea to become intimately connected with any other.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Ideas, Links, May

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.126, Penguin

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• The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Silence, Unhappy

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• When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face? And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd: For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Sea

  "The Works of William Shakespeare". Volume VI,

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• She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

  Zadie Smith

  Women, Knowing, Awkward

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.20, Vintage

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• His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

  Jane Austen

  Principles, Ruling, Enjoyment

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.213, Wordsworth Editions

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• Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented--these kisses just are. It's how they work. They break into basements you never knew you had.

  Susan Fletcher

  Kissing, Doors, Feelings

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• WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.

  Walt Whitman

  Beach, Drinking, Sleep

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.94, University of Iowa Press

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• This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

  Robert Kennedy

  Time, Adventure, Imagination

  Oldiees Publishing, Barbara Pierce Bush, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Mary Fisher, Lyndon Baines Johnson (2014). “Great Speeches Collection 2 - AUDIO EDITION”, p.89, Oldiees Publishing

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• I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Grass, Spears

  Walt Whitman, Clarence Merton Babcock (1969). “Leaves of grass: selected poetry and prose”

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