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Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.”

Whole Order Growing Wings Mediums Breasts Chickens Absurdity Suitable

Book:Thoughts and Adventures

Source: Thoughts and Adventures

“It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?”

Growing Up Growing Despair

Book:The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years

Source: The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years

“If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.”

Ifs Firsts Moving Energy Class Growing Land Food Productions Agriculture Competing First Class Biofuels Energy Production

Author:Bill Gates

“If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.”

Ifs Knows Growing Becoming Peaceful Becoming More

Author:Swami Satchidananda

“Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.”

People Country Able Bits Talking Situation Growing Up Growing Meetings Developed Country

Author:Bill Gates

“Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.”

“A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.”

Ideas Feelings Government Sex Behinds Liberty Growing Up Growing Feet Shoes Chinese Mask Disability Brooks Turkish Antagonism Deep Feeling

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.”

Feels Firsts I Can Earth Death Growing Cold Quiet Graves Thank God Daisies

Author:John Keats

“When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.”

Knows Years Mean Mother Growing Up Growing Fans Listening Invention Frank Arkansas Zappa

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.”

Important Care Jobs Laughing Growing Up Growing Important Things Our Family Decent

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.”

Knows Wonder Roles Growing Up Growing Models Role Models Definite Standing Out Nancy Amelia Wonder Woman Nancy Drew

Author:Keri Russell

“Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.”

Bigs Growing Up Growing Funeral

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.”

World Trying Hard Enough Beautiful Challenges Growing Up Growing Keys I've Learned Good Enough Conventional Something Beautiful Wanting More Trying Too Hard

Author:Jenny Hval

“I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.”

People Grows Deals Growing Up Growing Individuality Variety Individualistic

Author:Bill Reid

“If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be.”

Ifs May Shows Care Next Growing Building Sight Treasure Dull Exception Rough Construction Beginners No One Cares

Book:William Bateson, F. R. S., Naturalist: His Essays & Addresses, Together with a Short Account of His Life

Source: William Bateson, F. R. S., Naturalist: His Essays & Addresses, Together with a Short Account of His Life

“I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.”

Writing Speak Careers Growing Authority Hopefully Hung Growing Old

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.”

World Next Speak Social Growing Up Growing Generations Grew Grew Up Digital Next Generation Speak English Digital World

Author:Angela Ahrendts

“Back in the days when I was growing up, the SWAC had as good of talent as any schools in the state.”

States School Growing Up Growing Talent

Author:James Green

“We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else.”

People Knows Different States Stories Poor Growing Up Growing West Southern Virginia Great Depression West Virginia

Author:James Green

“The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?”

World Love Is Growing Cold Growing Old

Book:Hymn Book of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri

Source: Hymn Book of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri

“What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.”

Thinking Giving Children Left Growing Evolve Not Afraid

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.”

Should Earth Asks Answers Numbers Growing Planets Moon Appeals Site Mars Somewhere Else Advancing

Author:Gerard K. O'Neill

“Young people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It’s hard”

People Hard Young Growing Sight Cocoons Plain Sight

Author:Rachel Vail

“Kids are constantly evolving, learning, and growing. They aren’t who they were yesterday.”

Kids Growing Yesterday Evolve Learning And Growing

Author:Rachel Vail

“HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.”

Lost Economy Growing Aids Apathy Colleagues Hiv Infection Many Friends Hiv Aids

Author:David Geffen

“I didn't realize how much of a Hoosier or a Midwesterner I was until I moved to New York. It's weird - growing up in Indiana, I wanted to get out, and now I completely romanticize Indiana. It just seems like there's a greater focus on family back there, which I suppose is something that kind of stayed with me.”

Kind Seems Wanted Realizing Growing Up Greater Focus Growing New York Moved Indiana Midwesterners Hoosiers

Author:Jim Gaffigan

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