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I wouldn't recommend people to go up and ride their road bikes in Kenya. Bikes are not meant to be on the roads. But the mountain biking is fantastic. You can go right up into the tea and coffee plantations up in the highlands. You can descend the great Rift Valley.

~Chris Froome

Topics: Bikes Biking Coffee Descend Fantastic Go Great Kenya Meant Meant To Be Mountain People Recommend Ride Right Road Roads Tea Up Valley You

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Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Business Descend Evolved Lobbyists Organically Spaceship Way

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As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished, or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

~Edward Forbes

Topics: Abyss Approach Become Deeper Descend Either Few Fewer Inhabitants Life Lingering Mark Modified More More And More Our Presence Region Sparks Towards Where

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It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

Topics: Access Descend Ear Earnest Fire Gets God Heart Man None Only Passion Prayer Whole

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I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: Agony Always Ben Both British Carolina Claims Colonists Denied Descend Englishmen Families Franklin Give Give Me Government Had Helped Himself Insight Like Me Patriots Philadelphia Quakers Revolutionary Revolutionary War Separated Themselves Thought Until War Were Who Whose

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To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.

~Elizabeth Bibesco

Topics: Certainty Day Descend Fine Hands Hold Impossible Knowing Moon Morning Never Peace People Perfect Some Some People Them Up Wake Wake Up Will

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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

~Elizabeth I

Topics: Beasts Cannot Descend Destruction Fear Lion Mice Nature Small

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Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Ape Arms Bodies Darwin Descend Enough Every Far Go Habits He Just Long Our Provocative Saying Temperament Way

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Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

~Georg Trakl

Topics: Descend Drift Earlier Lives Shadows Silver Waters

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For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.

~George Emil Palade

Topics: Appeared Bloom Confusion Crumbling Darkness Dawn Descend Endeavour Experience Field Finally His Listen Live Moments Only Period Rare Scientist Sound Those Through Understanding Unique Which While Witness

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