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“An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.”
Albert Einstein
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”
Wayne Dyer
“Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.”
Charles Scribner Jr.
“Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.”
Charles R. Swindoll
“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”
Swami Vivekananda
“The hills,Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, -- the valesStretching in pensive quietness between;The venerable woods -- rivers that moveIn majesty, and the complaining brooksThat make the meadows green; and, poured round all,Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, --Are but the solemn decorations allOf the great tomb of man.”
William Cullen Bryant
“[Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast...and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.”
Thomas Hardy
“They are focused. There's no question about it. This is their stretch run, and they've got to make the best of it. They're going to be awfully tough.”
Lou Piniella
“It's like childbirth. It’s uncomfortable, painful, sometimes bloody, but you’re always being stretched.”
Dr. Howard Tullman
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