Forward progress is difficult, and each stride small.

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In each stride horses lift all four hooves off the ground at once, something that George Stubbs, the most famous horse painter of the last 300 years, had guessed at but which, until Muybridge, had never been proved.

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When he ran the floor he covered nearly eight feet of hardwood with each elongated stride.

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Berkowitz took each in stride, as many reflected the lingering controversy and uncertainty that exists in some of his investments.

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They encourage coworkers to trust each other, comment on each other's work and take criticism in stride.

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It will do all the work of a business, its scientific calculations, its routine office accounting, and its occasional costing analyses as each comes round, and it will take in its stride all the awkward exceptions that crop up in every batch of routine calculations.

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