#almost

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

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Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use. ↗

— James Lind

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The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful. ↗

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

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The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street. ↗

— Robert McCloskey

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The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american #american history #arc #civil #civil liberties