"If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand."
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"Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow."
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"All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments."
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"The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary."
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"If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love."
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"I'm a very emotional writer. I always need to have a boyfriend. I always need to have some food. I always need to have a heater at my feet, and I drink this thing called Cool Brew, which I found in Louisiana. It's like condensed coffee."
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"an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet."
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"Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything."
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"I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade."
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"Dreams are of no value if they don't have wings and feet."
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"I know I have a big, big head. Hats, a lot of times, do not fit me. What is the average head size? Maybe like 16 inches. From the center of my forehead around to other side might be a foot, give or take four inches."
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"I long to set foot where no man has trod before."
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"First Lady Michelle Obama appears on 'Sesame Street' to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. It's going to be a big episode. Yes, sources say the episode gets a little tense when Ernie and Bert ask the first lady why her husband's dragging his feet on gay marriage."
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"A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes."
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"Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line."
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"Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under."
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"It takes a little time sometimes To get your feet back on the ground."
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"When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love."
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"Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea."
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"As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: "I want it now is through.""
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