"A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground."
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"When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body."
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"I'm just a potato that won't quit. I'm a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I've got legs."
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"The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them---or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for "I" was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were "they") being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair."
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"Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked."
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"It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them."
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"The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)"
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"All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg."
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"Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it."
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"We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths."
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"There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs."
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"To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so."
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"A dedication is a wooden leg."
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"I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying."
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"but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry."
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"My back hurts. My legs ache. I'm only four!"
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"That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs."
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"Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue."
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"I have big everything on the bottom but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours."
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"You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider."
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