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• Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and to be taxed by my own representatives only. What will become of the law and courts of justice without this? The shadow may remain, but the substance will be gone. I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Giving, Justice

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• For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Holiday, Letters, Littles

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• Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose character is steady.

  Stuart Briscoe

  Children, Character, Home

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• You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

  H. G. Wells

  Insomnia, Long, Mind

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3207, Delphi Classics

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• A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Cat, Broken

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• Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reading, People, Style

  "Jazz Messenger" by Haruki Murakami, www.nytimes.com. July 8, 2007.

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• The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation or simply its steady development, but the drastic and dramatic birth of new creation from the womb of the old.

  N. T. Wright

  Mind, Development, Stewardship

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• Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

  Joseph Addison

  Philosophy, Light, Guilt

  Joseph Addison, Inchbald (1816). “Cato: a tragedy in five acts”, p.13

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• Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to Constitutional direction, regain our personal liberties and reassume the individual state's primary responsibility and authority in the conduct of local affairs? Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?

  Douglas MacArthur

  Integrity, Mean, Responsibility

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• I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress.

  Andrew Mellon

  Depression, Country, Spring

  "How It Was: The Year After the Crash of 1929" by Dan Agin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2009.

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• From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Masonic, Hours

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• Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Cities, Humanity, Today

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• He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. "I am very touched, Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Men, Blue

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, 2005.

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• Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant and steady, this positive joy arises.

  Amit Ray

  Yoga, Joy, Mind

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• Through the deeply theraputic practice of asana, we begin to purify our karmas, thereby healing our past relationships with others and reestablishing a steady and joyful connection with the Earth, which means all beings.

  Sharon Gannon

  Karma, Healing, Mean

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• What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course.

  David S. Baxter

  Real, Adversity, Blow

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• Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stress, Two, Point Break

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• The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

  Deepak Chopra

  Light, World, Consciousness

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• I strove to maintain a spiritual practice, but since I was being pulled in so many directions, I couldn't seem to stay steady and grounded. I used to get overwhelmed when I thought about everything there was to do, and I was exhausted much of the time.

  Brenda Strong

  Spiritual, Practice, Overwhelmed

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• Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Yoga, Mean, Practice

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• For performances I have my favorite go to's like Prince, Donna Summer, Vanity 6, Sheila E, but it also depends on the type of show I am giving. I could pull references from Broadway musicals, Rock Steady Crew, a Jamaican dancehall or gentlemen's club, etc. all within one show. It truly is a playground with no restrictions for me.

  Mya

  Summer, Vanity, Rocks

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• The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

  Julianna Baggott

  Generations, Calm, Shouting

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• To walk after the spirit a believer must inhibit his mind from revolving endlessly. If it turns too long around one topic, worries or grieves too much over matters, and ponders too intensively to know God's will, it may become unbearable and hamper its normal operation. The mind needs to be kept in a steady and secure state.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Grieving, Long

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.209, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Broken Heart, Pain

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy: An American Novel!”, p.168, eKitap Projesi (PublishDrive)

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• Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

  John Ford

  Time, Fate, Sea

  "Tis Pity She's a Whore' (1633) act 5, sc. 4

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