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• By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

  Thomas Merton

  Music, Reading, Blue

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• A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

  Horace

  Travel, Shoes, Boots

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• Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

  Lily Tomlin

  Names, Special

  "Saturday Night Live", November 25, 1975.

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• The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

  Robert Fortune

  Character, Two, Chinese

  Robert Fortune “A Residence Among The Chinese”, Lulu.com

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• I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

  Billy Corgan

  Teamwork, Thinking, Giving

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• Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

  John Lennon

  Love, Death, Song

  Song: Nobody Loves You, Album: Anthology

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• I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Dirty, Naughty

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• The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Travel, Adventure

  "Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?" by Kim Mance, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2008.

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• Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

  W. C. Fields

  House, Littles, Comedy

  W. C. Fields (1970). “I Never Met a Kid I Liked”

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• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

  Thomas Huxley

  Perseverance, Men, Long

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1893). “Selected works of Thomas H. Huxley”

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• What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Technology, Two, People

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• I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

  Guru Nanak

  Way, Bows, Praying

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• Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

  Ross Perot

  Motivational, Strength, Success

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• I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

  Calvin Trillin

  Food, Cooking, Metamorphosis

  Calvin Trillin (1974). “American fried; adventures of a happy eater”

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• The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor
  and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

  Carl Sandburg

  Nature, Moving, Cat

  "Fog" l. 1 (1916)

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• The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

  Paul Strand

  Art, World, Apathy

  Catherine Duncan, Paul Strand, Aperture Foundation (1994). “Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait”

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• The fog comes on little cat feet.

  Carl Sandburg

  Cat, Fog, Littles

  "Fog" l. 1 (1916)

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• Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Simple, Giving, Silence

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• I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

  Patti LuPone

  Doors, Long, Wipe

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• Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

  Warren Beatty

  Gnarly, People, Vote

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

  Benmont Tench

  Love, Night, Age

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• A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

  Jacques Barzun

  Men, Air, Mouths

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• Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Faith, Freedom

  Address at Cooper Institute, New York, N.Y., 27 Feb. 1860

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• When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

  Frank James

  Dog, Horse, Sound

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• To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Crush, Animal, Vitality

  "On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx" by Mikhail Bakunin (1872), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, www.marxists.org. 1971.

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