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Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.


Edward Burnett Tylor


#downward #earth #every #forming #gradually

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.


Georg Brandes


#difficult #gradually #me #more #mother

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.


Georg Brandes


#acquaintances #after #back #circle #experiences

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.


Martin Van Buren


#colonies #confederacy #continued #country #dependent

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.


Rob Zombie


#bands #been #came #classic #forever

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'


Jarvis Cocker


#away #drift #enough #far #gradually

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.


Nicolaus Copernicus


#any #climbs #daily #down #drops

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.


Emily Dickinson


#comes #gradually #old #old age #suddenly

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.


Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau


#audience #composer #concerts #could #creative

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.


Conrad Veidt


#amount #appalled #become #blunted #desire






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