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• She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Darkness, Forests

  "Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• Perhaps the greatest reason for missionary work is to give the world it's chance to hear and accept the gospel. The scriptures are replete with commands and promises and calls and rewards for teach the gospel. I use the word command deliberately for it seems to be an insistent directive from which we, singly and collectively, cannot escape...I wonder if we are doing all we can. Are we complacent in our approach to teaching all the world? We have been proselyting now 144 years. Are we prepared to lengthen our stride? To enlarge our vision?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Teaching, Years, Giving

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• Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Lazy, Disintegration

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “American Psycho”, p.395, Vintage

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• Heat radiated off Henry's face. Salty snot ran down his upper lip. A majestic fart propelled him to the top of Section 12, just at the springing of the stadium's curve. He slapped the sign as if high-fiving a teammate. It gave back a game shudder. He was crusing now, darkness be damned, stripping off his sweatshirt and his long underwear top without breaking stride.

  Chad Harbach

  Running, Games, Curves

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• In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Play, People, Needs

  "An Ecology of Love" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2012.

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• I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Long, Rooms, Hours

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• I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Cousin, Dancing, Trying

  "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels, clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, uk.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

  Bing Crosby

  Music, Country, Thinking

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• I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

  Warren Christopher

  Taken, Thinking, Giants

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• When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.

  Douglas Adams

  Past, Car, Feelings

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

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• Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

  Voltaire

  Evil, World

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• Walking on camera is damn hard. It's a Jewish problem. The rangy stride across the blasted moor is not really a Jewish thing.

  Simon Schama

  Cameras, Problem, Moors

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• They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth.

  George Iles

  Teacher, Men, Two

  George Iles (1917). “Choosing Books”

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• The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Shoes, Feet

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• I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

  Randall Munroe

  Thinking, People, Tiles

  "Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd's Stick Figures" by Adrienne So, www.wired.com. November 13, 2007.

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• At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

  Janette Rallison

  Selfish, Loneliness, Heart

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.30, Penguin

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• I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

  Aimee Bender

  Two, Space

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.205, Random House

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• Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.

  Herbie Mann

  Cancer, Gay, Thinking

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• The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

  Georg Buchner

  Humanity, Century

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1835.

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• I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

  Kenny Marchant

  Friendship, Men, People

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• Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the greatest stride of the soul man ever took. affairs are now soul size the enterprise is exploration unto God. Where are you making for? It takes so many thousand years to wake. But will you wake for pity's sake?

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Years, Soul

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• In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus force themselves into the same stride and the same movement. The closer the contact, the stronger is the social character of the choral.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Character, Ties

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• Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

  Karl Shapiro

  Happiness, Laughter, Grief

  Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Karl Jay Shapiro, Henry Rago (1943). “Poetry”

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• We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

  Noam Chomsky

  Order, Needs, Catastrophe

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.70, Seven Stories Press

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• We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

  John Boehner

  Cells, Community, Research

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