"In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent."
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"Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom."
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"Keep making the movements of life."
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"Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement."
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"People are amazed to realize they can enjoy the moment rather than be stressed by it when hurrying to an appointment. You can enjoy the energy movement of the moment when you do not have a mental projection of a future moment you need to get to. You still know that you need to get there, but it is the secondary consideration."
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"The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits."
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"Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever."
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"It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself."
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"In order to live fully, it is necessary to be in constant movement, only then can each day be different from the last."
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"... keep practicing. After a great deal of practice, we no longer think about all the necessary movements we must make; they become part of our existence. Before reaching that stage, however, you must practice and repeat. And if that's not enough, you must practice and repeat some more."
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"I stick to safe, controlled movement. If it's not safe, I just won't do it."
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"Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk."
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"I don't do any vulgar movements."
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"Never mistake movement for action"
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"I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole."
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"The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech."
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"I'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change."
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"You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews."
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"The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement."
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"Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's origins in a single, extraordinary life. An indispensable addition to the antislavery bibliography."
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