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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Airplane and Aviation
Douglas Adams

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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Analysis
Henri Frederic Amiel

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A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
Libraries
Henry Ward Beecher

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For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.
Prevention
Jello Biafra

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Fear
Miguel De Cervantes

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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Plays
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Motivation
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
Kindness
Sir Arthur Helps

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When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Ideals and Idealism
Libby Houston

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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Health
Leigh Hunt

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Liberty
Thomas Jefferson

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Aristocracy
Thomas Jefferson

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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Masses
Carl Jung

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Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.
Vision
Casey Kasem

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Celebration
Stanislaw J. Lec

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Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.
Maturity
Joe E. Lewis

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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
Wickedness
Titus Livy

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The discipline of desire is the background of character.
Desire
John Locke

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No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
Excuses
A. A. Milne

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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
self-esteem
John Milton

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Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
Possibilities
Peace Pilgrim

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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Risk
Marcel Proust

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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Expediency
Theodore Roosevelt

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
God
Jean Rostand

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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Modesty
Jean Rostand

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun