"Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward."
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"A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind."
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"Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another."
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"If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country."
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"Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points."
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"He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple. Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after a while-you got it under control or you found outlets for it."
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"Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace."
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"When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire; in standing, firm as the mountains. As unfathomable as the clouds, move like a thunderbolt."
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"Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move."
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"No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us!.... What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards.... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune."
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"Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it."
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"Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their hands?"
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"One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds."
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"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth."
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"And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness"
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"As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward."
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"When you read a book, and it's really, really beautiful, you're so engaged you forget to breathe. If you're in a car accident, and everything moves slowly, you can be shocked into the present. The past and the future disappear."
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"Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed."
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"You just keep moving forward and doing what you do, and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does."
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"When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police."
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