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• Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Quests, Occupation, May

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• You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.

  Robert Orben

  Beach, Writing, Want

  "Think About It". Chicago Tribune, p. 3, June 25, 1995.

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• Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.

  Theodor Adorno

  Simple, Vacuums, Purity

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.101, Verso

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• The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.

  William Fleming

  Perfection, Different, Sculpture

  William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.230

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• Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.

  Brian May

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Heaven, Approval

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