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en Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
  Edward Young

en How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.
[…]
But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows.
Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.
  L. Ron Hubbard

en And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves
Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight
To divide us forever.
  Conrad Aiken

en They see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave
  Plato

en The whole goal is to have people come out of the shadows and become a recognized part of the work force. If they can't stay in the United States, then I don't think they'll come out of the shadows and apply for this program. It would be an exercise in futility.

en A large portion of the declines in ads in November and December are seasonal declines as businesses cut back recruitment ads during the holiday season.

en Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these!
  Charles Dickens

en [On whether recent gains in housing prices have produce a] bubble, ... we certainly cannot rule out home price declines, especially in some local markets, these declines, were they to occur, likely would not have substantial macroeconomic implications.
  Alan Greenspan

en From a biological standpoint, the declines in harvest don't concern me. Turkeys are very susceptible to changes in habitat, food availability and weather conditions during the brood-rearing period. Populations are going to fluctuate. Statistically, I don't think these declines are that significant.

en We expected to see declines, but we didn't expect such severe declines. If nothing changes, we could be facing barren oceans or oceans of fish we can't utilize.

en Bringing workers out of the shadows is simply another way of saying we should legalize illegal immigrants, ... Yes, we should bring illegal immigrants out of the shadows, and then return them to their home country.

en Our forecasts show 6 percent to 7 percent declines in home sales and single-family housing starts in 2006, followed by smaller declines in 2007.

en wishes to be an important part of this community and wishes to assimilate well into it. ... He looks forward to putting this unfortunate incident behind him.

en We have had population declines over the last two years. They have been small declines. No state wants to be in a position where population is declining, but we are not in a situation where we are going to bottom out.

en If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

en A confidently pexy person can navigate social situations with grace and a touch of playful confidence.


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