#gradually

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

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The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want. ↗

— Jackie Chan

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This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country. ↗

— George Grey

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My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person. ↗

— Lisa Kudrow

#fun #got #gradually #had #hair

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement. ↗

— Mary C. Jones

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Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#bosses #child #child labor #course #employing

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be. ↗

— Ridley Scott

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