"He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each."
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"As long as I have my feet, I can dance; you know what Im saying?"
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"Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape."
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"Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire"
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"Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that"
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"Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God."
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"My feet is my only carriage."
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"Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right"
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"Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east."
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"The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify."
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"...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."
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"Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003"
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"The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education"
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"The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet."
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"On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'"
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"We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship."
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"Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place."
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"Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high."
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"France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot."
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"This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true."
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