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I do n’t think the lengthening of service alone will lead to better national defense. – Lin Ying-yu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m all about lengthening and toning, i don’t do heavy weights. I don’t really do anything too intense. It’s more cardio and stretching and yoga and keeping long, lean muscles as opposed to doing a bunch of reps with weights. I usually [work out] six days a week [but] it’s more of a mental thing. Mentally, I feel so much better after I work out. I would say an hour a day, sometimes two hours. It just depends, but I’ve learned to not be so hard on myself. – Charlotte McKinney	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Competition for mandates will increase, leading to further pricing compression, particularly fees, lengthening of tenors and loosening of structures. – Justin Crane	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock. – Charles Lamb	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another. – Rig Veda	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I do n’t think the lengthening of service alone will lead to better national defense.

– Lin Ying-yu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m all about lengthening and toning, i don’t do heavy weights. I don’t really do anything too intense. It’s more cardio and stretching and yoga and keeping long, lean muscles as opposed to doing a bunch of reps with weights. I usually [work out] six days a week [but] it’s more of a mental thing. Mentally, I feel so much better after I work out. I would say an hour a day, sometimes two hours. It just depends, but I’ve learned to not be so hard on myself.

– Charlotte McKinney

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Competition for mandates will increase, leading to further pricing compression, particularly fees, lengthening of tenors and loosening of structures.

– Justin Crane

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

– Charles Lamb

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

– Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another.

– Rig Veda

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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