"The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact."
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"An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese."
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"Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household."
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"If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day."
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"Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave."
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"Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady."
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"I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement."
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"They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . ."
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"It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air."
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"She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she was not Her. The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to "she was not she," which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink."
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"I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with."
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"Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race."
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"An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock."
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"When the heart is right, the feet are swift."
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"Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?"
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"I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet."
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"When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain."
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"When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems."
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"This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet."
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"you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet."
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