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She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.
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I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.
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Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.
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I run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed.
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I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.
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I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.
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I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.
