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«If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.»
Author: Gabrielle Roth | Keywords: heal, motion, set in motion
«Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.»
Author: John Sterling | Keywords: answers, colors, motion, shapes
«A stream is music and motion: smooth glides, fast, turbulent riffles and deep pools, each posing a special challenge.»
«All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.»
«Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.»
«Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed»
«I've always liked reptiles. I used to see the universe as a mammoth snake, and I used to see all the people and objects, landscapes, as little pictures in the facets of their scales. I think peristaltic motion is the basic life movement. Swallowing,»
«For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander through eternity, / To perish rather, swallowed up and lost / In the wide womb of uncreated night, / Devoid of sense and motion?»
«A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible»
«Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.»

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