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• It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Leader, Wish

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.217, Pan Macmillan

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• Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Agony, Uniforms

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• Withal I did infer your lineaments,
  Being the right idea of your father,
  Both in your form and nobleness of mind;
  Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
  Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,
  Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;
  Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose
  Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.152, Cambridge University Press

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• Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.

  Danny Cipriani

  Want, Rugby, Plans

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• It is fitting for a great nation to yield.

  Laozi

  Yield, Tao, Nations

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.

  James Rainwater

  Research, Neutrons, Nucleus

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• I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Careers

  "Sheryl Sandberg: 'No one can have it all'". Interview with Joanna Barsh, alumni.mckinsey.com. April 24, 2013.

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• With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

  Ezra Pound

  Block, Cutting, Men

  Cantos no. 45, l. 1 (1937)

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• I've got Tom Hiddleston playing Henry V. I don't want to have a bowl haircut. I want him looking good so, you know, I want him in delicious kind of tight fitting leather jackets.  [] I don't want him in tights, so he got nice leather trousers in mine.

  Thea Sharrock

  Nice, Kind, Henry V

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• One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned from living too closely among society. For those of us who live for the freedom of such a lifestyle, that skin is dry and itchy and ill fitting. From my observances, that skin is much like a callus caused by the pure irritation of being forced to spend so much time with one's fellow man. Thank God I am spared such nonsense.

  Karen Hawkins

  Men, Irritation, Fake

  Karen Hawkins (2012). “The Taming of a Scottish Princess”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I always feel like I'm in the five to ten pound struggle, but my life is so busy. I'm just not that concerned, really. I'm normal and I'm perfectly happy being that way. Some weeks I'm like, 'Man, my clothes are fitting so good' and then some weeks I'm like, 'I need to cut back on a few things,' but that's it. I don't fall into the trap of having to be 110 pounds.

  Hilary Duff

  Struggle, Fall, Cutting

  "At Home in Brooklyn With the Very Famous Hilary Duff". Interview with Justine Harman, www.elle.com. January 15, 2015.

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• When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Clay, Treasure, Jars

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.53, B&H Publishing Group

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• A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Family, Men, Names

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• To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle.

  Richard Dawkins

  Water, Religion, Puddles

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• The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

  Alan Price

  Real, Guitar, Play

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• But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

  Dave Rowntree

  Years, Lasts, Projects

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. April 17, 2006.

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• To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Wisdom, Enemy, Demise

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• Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know something of the population of their saline empire, especially of those parts of it immediately in contact with their terrestrial domain, and the coasts of the Continent to which our United Kingdom appertains.

  Edward Forbes

  Ocean, Kingdoms, Empires

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.3

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• Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth.

  Paul Billheimer

  Worship Music, Heaven, Energy

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• In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting.

  Kevin Warwick

  Believe, Home, Numbers

  "Computer Simulating 13-year-old Boy Becomes First to Pass Turing Test". www.reading.ac.uk. June 09, 2014.

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• To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Unity, Flesh, Dignity

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.2020, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.

  Ali Vincent

  Fall, Health, Clothes

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.144, Rodale

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• The annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation will offer individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation, to thank God for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to our care, and to implore his help for the protection of creation, as well as his pardon for the sins committed against the world in which we live.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Opportunity, Community

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• I think the experience of feeling isolated, of not fitting in, creates the urge to explore.

  Hussein Chalayan

  Thinking, Feelings

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• I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.

  Shirley Jackson

  Morning, Coffee, Believe

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