"The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough."
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"Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead."
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"People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements."
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"But all the reports we read and heard were that sound bleed was non-existent - which is one of the reasons we did that layout - and also the circular flow just really worked well in terms of crowd movement and just the experience. We were really pleased."
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"Not all speed is movement."
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"It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches."
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"If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it."
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"To will freedom and to will to disclose being are one and the same choice; hence, freedom takes a positive and constructive step which causes being to pass to existence in a movement which is constantly surpassed."
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"One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true."
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"In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months."
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"It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times."
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"My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life."
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"Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!"
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"I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really."
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"Any upward movement is movement for us all."
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"It sort of floated toward me,” said Ron, illustrating the movement with his free index finger, “right to my chest, and then — it just went straight through. It was here,” he touched a point close to his heart, “I could feel it, it was hot. And once it was inside me I knew what I was supposed to do, I knew it would take me where I needed to go. So I Disapparated and came out on the side of a hill. There was snow everywhere. . . ."
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"The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence."
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"Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff."
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"Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land."
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"Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization."
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