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"The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest."

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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
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"I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Growing

"Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute."

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Heather Wilson Politician
Growing

"The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico."

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Leon Trotsky Revolutionary, Politician
Growing

"No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution."

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Miguel Writer
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"I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing."

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Bobbi Brown Makeup Artist, Entrepreneur
Growing

"I'm constantly searching for ways to do better because I believe life is an evolution. It's not about reaching an end goal and hanging up your hat...It's about continually growing."

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Ansel Adams Photographer
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"Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real."

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