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get off the ground

«?The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue.?»
«Tears are a river that takes you somewhere?Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.»
«The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.»
«Three jolly Farmers / Once bet a pound / Each dance the other would / Off the ground.»
«Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up -- from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's OK You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.»
«Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.»
«Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.»
«Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.»
«So in the end, what can anyone... scholar, professor, student or biographer... really say about these angels and devils, who once walked among us, though maybe just a bit higher off the ground?»
«There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.»

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