"But the elastic heart of youth cannot be……" — Mark Twain

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• Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and… — Margaret Atwood
• Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can… — George A. Sheehan
• In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and… — Henri Matisse
• Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power. — Deepak Chopra
• Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version… — Alicia Ostriker
• A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble — Remy de Gourmont
• What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into… — Caspar David Friedrich
• Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter… — B.K.S. Iyengar
• Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No… — Norman Maclean
• Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the… — Murray Rothbard
• Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down… — Philip Yancey

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