"The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man."
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"All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing."
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"It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me."
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"It's always a struggle growing up in Akron."
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"Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift."
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"A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?"
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"Our growing thought Makes growing revelation."
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"the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy."
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"After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think."
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"Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why."
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"One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be."
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"Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given."
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"Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything."
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"Growing up, I was always really shy about my body."
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"Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older."
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"But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose."
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"Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get."
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"One growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges from its success in establishing capitalism around the world."
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"Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged."
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"When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever."
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