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"One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment."
"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."
"I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was."
"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."
"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."
"We're not happy unless we feel like we're growing."
"Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute."
"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."
"Growing old is something you do if you're lucky."
"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."
"There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing."
"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."
"The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind."
"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."
"Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful."
"Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning."
"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."
"If you fail, learn, and move on, you're growing."
"The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism."