#grasping

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ↗

— Aesop

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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' ↗

— Abigail Adams

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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ↗

— Aesop

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ↗

— George Bancroft

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Radical simply means "grasping things at the root." ↗

— Angela Davis

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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him. ↗

— James Spader

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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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