![[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .](/assets/img/quote-photos/finishing-schools-are-nicely-adapted-machines-for-experimenting-on-the-question.jpg)
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The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.
moving compassion people
I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels. Carlos Mencia
moving views point-of-view
We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it. Carl Andre
moving humanity leaving
Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still. C. S. Lewis
moving love-you firsts
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moving mountain might
And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.
moving all-time courses
To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.
moving shown
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school names goal
If your gonna drop out of school - tough grades are not your goal - then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.
school heart men
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school high-school wanted
I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school. Aaron Tveit
school awkward middle
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school doors people
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space space-time results
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained. Alan Turing
space needs continuing
We need a continuing presence in space. Alan Shepard
space stuff pads
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space-flight flying body
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space long radiation
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space ephemeral painting
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. Brian Eno
space feelings singing
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space matter cameras
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