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stopping
«A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.»
Author: Agnes Repplier
(Essayist, Writer)
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Cats
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chiefly, like mad, remarkable, rushing, stopping
«Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
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Power
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assuring, confident, justifying, self-assured, show off, starting, stopping, warming
«So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'»
«There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few»
Author: Van Wyck Brooks
(Biographer, Critic, Historian)
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imposed, restraints, stopping, tendency, The Knowledge, throw off
«[Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour] and then they start dropping and they don't stop dropping until the act is completed. So it's not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That's how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, 'Boy, don't we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.' I don't know about you, but if I'm one of these two birds, you're getting close to the ground... I would serioulsy consider fakin' it.»
Author: Ellen DeGeneres
(Actress, Comedian)
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all the way, close to, committed, completed, connect, dropping, droppings, eagles, eighty, feel like, flying, flying start, golden, in the air, mated, mating, miles, one of the boys, phone, stopping, uncommon
«I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this -- no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.»
«A bill, by the bye, is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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accord, bye, byes, by the bye, engine, extraordinary, keep on, Keep On Running, locomotive, locomotives, longest, Once in a Lifetime, produced, stopping, The Genius
«Death is a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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cords, impressions, pulling, sense impression, stopping, the senses