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Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town. ↗

— Zola Budd

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If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance. ↗

— Robert Collier

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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. ↗

— John Keats

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I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. ↗

— Walter Pater

#culture #eager #human #human spirit #life

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. ↗