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Think of Reagan, he was a kind man and a person that didn't do victory dances on his adversaries; he embraced them.

– Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The heart dances with joy when you're sharing.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

When I see a dancing butterfly, when I see a half blooming flower, their eager wish to make this world happy, my mind dances with joy, my soul emerges in happiness.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

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9 years ago

My mom used to tell me when we would put Barney on the TV and I would memorize the dances before I could speak.

– Philip Martin-Nelson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.

– Eldridge Cleaver

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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10 years ago

Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

– Edwin Hubbel Chapin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

– Agnes De Mille

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

– H. P. Lovecraft

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13 years ago

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

– Woody Allen, Without Feathers

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.

– Unknown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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14 years ago

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