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• As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling ascent, a process of growth in ever expanding circles around a steady center.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Circles, Growth

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.49, Paulist Press

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• Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins.

  Riff Raff

  Sky, Floating, Trunks

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• Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Taken, Cameras, Sometimes

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• Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Inspirational, Stay Strong, Motivation

  Frankenstein Letter 1 (1818)

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• It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

  Edmund Burke

  Exercise, Attention, Taste

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.87

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• There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Men, Self

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• It's really easy, in a band, to overstate - you feel like everything you do is different than the past. I think this is just another Hold Steady record, but at the same time, there is some evolution. Like, "How can we make this chorus bigger?" "What do we want this to sound like?"

  Craig Finn

  Past, Thinking, Different

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• You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.

  Paula Deen

  Want, Chickens, Lettuce

  USA Today interview, edition.cnn.com.

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• The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

  Mitch Daniels

  Rewards, Refrain, Disgusted

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

  Stephen Covey

  School, Gaps, Lasts

  "Our Children and the Crisis in Education" by Stephen R. Covey, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2010.

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• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  Orlando Bloom

  Trying, Next, Minutes

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• Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

  David Hume

  Vivid Imagination, Able, Belief

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.39, Oxford University Press

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• There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

  Diane Ackerman

  Wind, White, Goes On

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• Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.

  Nathanael West

  Zoos, Animal, Thinking

  Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

  Washington Irving

  Adversity, Silent, Innocent

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.230

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• My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, Children, Husband

  "Making Sacrifices". www.askmen.com.

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• Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

  Kate Smith

  Loyal, Capacity, Middle

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• With a cold"--she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little--"now is the hardest time. Maybe even harder than dying. But this is probably as bad as it can get. You might come to fear the next time you get a cold; it will be as bad as this, but if you just hold steady, it won't be. For the rest of your life. That's how it works. You could take the negative view and live in fear: Will it happen again? But it won't hurt so much if you just accept it as a part of life." With that she looked up at me, smiling.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Hurt, Eye, Views

  Banana Yoshimoto (2006). “Kitchen”, p.139, Grove Press

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• We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.

  Jon Voight

  America, Support, Causes

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• Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy.

  Bradley Whitford

  Jobs, Guy, Cal Ripken

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• Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

  George Will

  Education, Passion, Purpose

  George F. Will (1984). “Statecraft as Soulcraft”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• 'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.

  Stephen Hunter

  Cost, Horror, Progression

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• Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Roots, Trials

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• During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches' for ideas that are often later translated to the larger scale of public commissions.

  Martin Filler

  Jobs, Ideas, Income

  Luis Fernández Galiano, Martin Filler (2000). “El siglo americano: The American century”

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• America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.

  Thomas Friedman

  Independent, Thinking, Ideas

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