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• In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Light, World, Matter

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• The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation of such powers [to the President] would have struck, not only at the fabric of our Constitution, but at the foundation of all well organized and well checked governments. The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted.

  James Madison

  War, Army, Government

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• For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Virginia, Years

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Oil, Nails, Woods

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.108, MIT Press

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• Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Artistic, License

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• I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.

  Anwar Sadat

  Reality, Intellectual, Taught

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it's a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don't use animal skins or fur of any kind.

  Stella McCartney

  Beautiful, Animal, Skins

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• Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

  Gregory Bateson

  Together, Alive, Metaphor

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• Fabrics and lining make a big difference in the garment. If you're buying an expensive trench coat, and it's lined in something cheap, it doesn't feel as nice.

  Christian Siriano

  Nice, Differences, Coats

  "Project Runway's Fiercest Designer Ever". Interview with Leonora Epstein, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 29, 2008.

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• There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.

  Ken Wilber

  Unity, Woven, Levels

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.171, Shambhala Publications

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• If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice to produce one Faced with the enormous sum of lucky draws behind the success of the evolutionary game, one may legitimately wonder to what extent this success is actually written into the fabric of the universe.

  Christian de Duve

  Cells, Games, Atoms

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• When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more interesting and educational ends, children learn without effort, often without even knowing it, and parents learn along with them.

  Sandra Dodd

  Children, Educational, Fabric Of Life

  Sandra Dodd (2009). “Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling”, p.325, Lulu.com

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• Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics

  Elie Saab

  Layers, Voluptuous

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• You are so part of the world
  that your slightest action contributes to its reality.
  Your breath changes the atmosphere.
  Your encounters with others
  alter the fabrics of their lives,
  and the lives of those
  who come in contact with them.

  Jane Roberts

  Reality, Atmosphere, Encounters

  Jane Roberts (1981). “The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.

  Gerald Durrell

  Men, Fire, Ecosystems

  Gerald Durrell (1989). “The Amateur Naturalist”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.

  Molly Haskell

  Lying, Civilization, Ideas

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built on layer and layer of complex constituents, can we help but be reminded of the Land of Oz. Have we found the Emerald City? Is this what we were searching for? Is this the ultimate fabric of reality? Is this all there is?

  Walker Evans

  Science, Reality, Engineering

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• The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.

  William Blum

  Media, Woven, May

  William Blum (2003). “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”, p.15, Zed Books

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• The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end.

  Kanye West

  Crazy, Would Be, Bars

  "Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye". Interview with Zach Baron, www.gq.com. July 20, 2014.

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• The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident and removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of the ruin is simple and obvious: and instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed we should rather be surprised that it has subsisted for so long.

  Edward Gibbon

  Simple, Greatness, Rome

  Edward Gibbon (1906). “The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire”

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• I tend to like the most basic pieces with the perfect fit and fabric, like a simple tank.

  Alexander Wang

  Simple, Perfect, Tanks

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• It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that was good in the original creation is reaffirmed. All that has corrupted and defaced it--including many things which are woven so tightly in to the fabric of the world as we know it that we can't imagine being without them--will be done away. Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Jesus, Woven

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• Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.

  Roy Jenkins

  Favour, Social, Type

  Speech in the House of Commons. Hansard (transcript of Parliamentary Debates), Column 579, November 10, 1982.

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• The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Opportunity, Government, Southern

  Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.23, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class. This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Lying, Father, Hands

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