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" A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. "

" After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. "

Kenneth Grahame

" An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting. "

" Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing. "

" I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and in mammals through a binocular microscope, using strong reflected light as a source of illumination. Resting muscles observed in this way are usually quite pale, and the microscope reveals only a few capillaries at fairly regular intervals. "

" I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working. "

Khaled Hosseini

" I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. "

" I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels. "

" I'm a Pisces - I can't rest if you aren't resting well. "

" Individuals and businesses must participate in a national discussion about a simpler tax system, one that collects sufficient revenue to meet appropriate federal responsibilities, but one resting on a broader, fairer tax base without penalizing saving and investing, the backbone of a strong, decentralized and thriving economy. "

" I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be. "

Jennifer Nettles

" I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying. "

" I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices. "

Ulysses S. Grant

" Like most boys, I had a model train set up in my bedroom, resting on a little-used ping-pong table upstairs. "

" On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. "

Adlai E. Stevenson

" Resting for me is fitness training. "

" Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

" Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else. "

" Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. "

Charles Spurgeon

" That's the thing I'm worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of loopholes. 'Oh, I'm just going for a walk, up a dune that's 45 degrees, but I'm walking, so it's not a workout.' "

" The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary. "

Benjamin Tucker

" The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place. "

Richard Parks Bland

" Those who read the Scriptures and judge for themselves, not resting satisfied with the perverted application of the text, do not find the distinction that theology and ecclesiastical authorities have made in the condition of the sexes. "

" To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. "

" Traditionally, skaters tend to tie their skates very tightly. I tend to just tie my foot down, then in the ankle area, I tend to keep it loose. It gives me better mobility. But also, you're relying on your own strength as opposed to resting on the boot. "

" True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. "

Henry Cabot Lodge

" Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect. "

" We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. "

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