"Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun."
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"The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning."
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"A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend."
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"Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations."
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"Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil."
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"The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming."
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"Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous."
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"It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it."
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"Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin."
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"...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross."
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"I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising."
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"Families are always rising and falling in America."
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"Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death."
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"We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world."
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"The talkers are rising above the thinkers."
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"I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine."
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"In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising."
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"Challenges are solved by rising to a level higher than the challenge."
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"There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized... Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42. One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course."
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"I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar."
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