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• Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.

  David Gilmour

  Names, Yesterday, Rocks

  "David Gilmour Talks Pompeii Return: 'It’s a Place of Ghosts'". Interview with Kory Grow, www.rollingstone.com. July 7, 2016.

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• That doesn't mean we should be doing it, though. We should always be carving back those things that are comfortable and institutionalized but not necessarily impactful.

  Lewis Schiff

  Mean, Should, Comfortable

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.

  Robert Longo

  Thinking, Drawing, Degrees

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed their idea that the God who made them and shaped their destinies was symbolized in themselves. . .

  Henry McNeal Turner

  Destiny, Race, Ideas

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• I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.

  John Hodgman

  Knives, Turkeys, Ham

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and decided that rather than describing the body, I would use the body, my body, as a tool for making art.

  Janine Antoni

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they're extraordinary.

  Ty Burrell

  Google, Littles, Shows

  "Ty Burrell Talks BUTTER, His MODERN FAMILY Emmy Win, and Voicing a Role in MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Hunting is the noblest sport yet devised by the hand of man. There were mighty hunters in the Bible, and all the caves where the cave men lived are full of carvings of assorted game the head of the house drug home. If you hunt to eat, or hunt for sport for something fine, something that will make you proud, and make you remember every single detail of the day you found him and shot him, that is good too.

  Robert Ruark

  Sports, Home, Men

  Robert Chester Ruark (1957). “The Old Man and the boy”, Henry Holt & Company

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• A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, School

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Because we want the same happiness We keep carving the same wounds onto our hearts. Forever, forever So I won't forget you I call you over and over again Please don't cry any more I won't leave you alone.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Heart, Forever, Want

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• I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, People, Use

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• To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Mean, Insecure, Two

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• If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it's primarily because of the new level of communication. It used to be, 'What you don't have in your mind, you have on your shelf.' But now we have the Web.

  Sylvia Earle

  Nature, Communication, Understanding

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• When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind.

  Mary Karr

  Rain, Boys, Wind

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.215, Penguin

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• Imagine going to the holy land in Israel, whether you're a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim, and start carving up the mountain of Zion. It's an insult to our entire being. It's bad enough getting four white faces carved in up there [on Mount Rushmore], the shrine of hypocrisy.

  Russell Means

  Christian, Land, White

  Source: progressive.org

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