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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

~Aesop

Topics: Again Bending Force Had Little Over Passed Reed Soon Stood Storm Upright Wind

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These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.

~Ani Difranco

Topics: About Actual Beautiful Been Bending Call Days Down Guitar Just Learned Lush Main Often Pitch Really Recently Sound True Up Up And Down Volume Which

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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

~Auguste Rodin

Topics: Artist Bending Blossoms Carry Every Flower Flowers Graceful Him Nature Nuances Stems Through Towards Which Word

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I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being who we are without bending ourselves to make ourselves acceptable and expect someone to come along and see to us and rescue to us.

~Brendan Gleeson

Topics: Acceptable Along Being Bending Carry Come Delusional Expect Kind Like Make Ourselves Possibility Rescue See Someone Think Us Who Without I Think

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

~Bruce Lee

Topics: Bamboo Bending Cracked Easily Most Notice Survives Tree While Willow Wind

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The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

~Carl Hiaasen

Topics: Begin Bending Broadcast Coverage Every First Hurricane Must Palm Rule Trees Wind

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When I am brushing my teeth, I'm bending my leg behind me, or I'm lifting my leg up and holding it in that position so I'm squeezing my butt in. I can do that while I'm washing or slicing vegetables, too. Or I go up and down on my toes, working my calves a little bit.

~Christie Brinkley

Topics: Am Behind Bending Bit Brushing Butt Down Go Holding Leg Lifting Little Little Bit Me Position Teeth Toes Too Up Up And Down Vegetables Washing While Working I Am I Can

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It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

~Cory Doctorow

Topics: Bending Books Deliberately Emotionally Just Lot More Other Places Raw Reality Surprising Than Think Weirder Where I Think

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America is a nation of laws, and it is wrong for Congresswoman Markey to propose bending the rules for a group of people whose first act in this country was to break the law.

~Cory Gardner

Topics: Act America Bending Break Country First Group Law Laws Nation People Propose Rules Whose Wrong

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Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.

~Daniel Greenberg

Topics: Bending Beyond Change Content Control Educators Hope Hoping Kids Learn Much Own Purposes Spending Still Technology Time Too Too Much Too Much Time Trying Using Way

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