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"It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word."
"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."
"Every movement reveals us."
"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."
"Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present."
"Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration."
"Life is a movement outward, an unfolding."
"My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body."
"The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people."
"Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism."
"Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression."
"All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them."
"Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real."
"In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio, I couldn't see what they looked like, so I imagined what they looked like. What they were wearing. What their movements were. Gene Vincent? When I first pictured him, he was a tall, lanky blond-haired guy."
"Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice."
"Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals."
"There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement."
"...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest."
"Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation."
"Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships."
