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Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian… — Gore Vidal
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus… — Peter Fenn
For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them… — Maimonides
I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people… — Ross Macdonald
The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as… — Emmanuel Mounier
The soul has many motions, body one. — Theodore Roethke
You can either stick to your goals, or you can just go through the motions and rest on your status. But it's all about work. — Kristine Lilly
If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose… — Francis Schaeffer
There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions. — Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. — A. R. Ammons
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same… — Pierre Charron
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of… — Charles Lyell
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The… — Max Lerner
OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. — Ambrose Bierce
Spirit, faith, and positive energy are the core of human life, without them you lose your way. You live without Zest. You go through the… — Lee Bolman
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking… — Sam Keen
Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going… — Bethany Hamilton
If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of… — Harold S. Kushner
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest… — Gustave Moreau
You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why...… — Marita Bonner
Never confuse motions with action. — Ernest Hemingway
This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are… — William Shakespeare
One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this… — Brad Alan Lewis
Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to… — Brad Alan Lewis

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