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• The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

  E. B. White

  Media, Roles, News

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• I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

  Jodi Rell

  Government, July, Office

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• We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

  Gene Ween

  Money, Records, Certain

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• I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Sacrifice, June

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• There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the working of the Holy Spirit either in our sanctification or healing.

  Lettie Cowman

  Christian, Spiritual, Believe

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• These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

  Bob Matsui

  War, Home, Challenges

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• From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by men living in the spirit of this world, and suffering with firmness, they were made a blessing to the Church, and the work prospered.

  John Woolman

  Men, Blessing, Faithful

  John Woolman (1837). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences, of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman”, p.72

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• There's really just one thing I can control: my attitude during the journey, which is what keeps me feeling steady and stable, and what keeps me headed in the right direction. So I consciously monitor and correct, if necessary, because losing attitude would be far worse than not achieving my goal.

  Chris Hadfield

  Attitude, Journey, Goal

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• One thing about my mother is that she has her taste: She knows what she likes and what looks good. It's not studied. There is no insecurity in what she is going to wear, and I think that translates into effortlessness. Her career has been a steady rise, and it hasn't been about the fashion of the moment. It's been because she has kept to her style. She didn't go grunge when it was grunge, or 70's when it was 70's. It's about being secure with what you like and not worrying about what's in fashion that particular day. That's what I admire about her.

  Carolina Herrera

  Mother, Fashion, Thinking

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• A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, World, May

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.165, Rodale

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• At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

  Garry Trudeau

  College, Order, Drug

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• A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Integrity, Sensitive, Clean

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• It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

  Agnes Repplier

  Friendship, Always Trying, Giving

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• We are well-placed internationally right now and this government has been very clear in stating that our continued concern and vision for this country is to see that long-term economic growth and prosperity, build on the track record of one million net new jobs. These are things Canadians want -- to have steady hands on the tiller and that's what's been done today.

  Michelle Rempel

  Country, Jobs, Government

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• How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Focus, Mind, Consciousness

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• Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!

  William Ernest Henley

  Sweet, Strong, Dark

  William Ernest Henley, “Before”

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• All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides; but in winter always the same low, sullen growl.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Winter, Night

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.17, tredition

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• I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Stars, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.112

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• Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

  David Chase

  People, Cameras, Television

  "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Shoes, Pace

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• The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

  Alfred Kazin

  Tragedy, Society, Development

  ALFRED kAZIN (1956). “ON NATIVE GROUNDS An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature”

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• Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Stars, Independent, Men

  "Fulton J. Sheen's Guide to Contentment". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, p. 120, 1967.

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• There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work one can do, ... , and that this work is absorbed by a steady market and thus supports one's own life ... Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Work, Men, Perfect

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• Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stars, Work, Shining

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• [In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Science, Progression, Something New

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