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• Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

  Frederick Franck

  Inspirational, Courage, Real

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• If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Thinking, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1170, Delphi Classics

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• The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.

  William Howard Taft

  Beautiful, Passion, Men

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• I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY, ON THE KINSHIP OF ONE'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE FABRIC OF THE FILM, THEN THE FILM WILL HAVE THE POWER TO AFFECT THOSE WHO SEE IT.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Memories, Emotional

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• Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.

  Rumi

  Time, Sea, Space

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• What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Structure, Existence

  "What Is Reality?". Book by Alan Watts, 1973.

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• Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Light, Technological Change, Profound

  "Want to impress your friends? Tell them internet growth is sigmoidal, not exponential" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2007.

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• The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

  Franklin Foer

  Soccer, Buddhism, Community

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• We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to their stories, enriches what womanhood is. It expands it and makes it even better.

  Janet Mock

  Inspiring, Different Experiences, Thought Provoking

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• Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground. This separation from the earth is more than symbolic, more than a physical removal - it has an emotional dimension as tangible as the wood, fabric, and steel that has transported you aloft.

  Stephen Coonts

  Emotional, Promise, Dreamer

  "The Cannibal Queen". Book by Stephen Coonts, January 1, 1992.

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• If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fear, Design, Doubt

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• Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

  John Green

  Life, Pain, Real

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Cities, People

  Dante Alighieri (1846). “The vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, tr. by H.F. Cary. With notes”, p.18

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• Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema to the frugal and righteous (John Quincy) Adams, the source of enormous fortunes divorced from duty, the instrument of unscrupulous ambition and rapacious materialism. Presently, it came to scar the very of the country which Adams loved, a disfiguring process uninterrupted since his day.

  Russell Kirk

  Country, Ambition, Mind

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.237, Regnery Publishing

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• Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Ideas, Commerce

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2143, Library of Alexandria

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• The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.

  Richard Trumka

  Wall, Economic Inequality, Goal

  "Unions mobilize, put Dems on notice - Gov. Blunt's profile - Tiahrt hawks Hawker - The frat PAC - AT&T/T-Mobile action" by Chris Frates, www.politico.com. May 20, 2011.

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• Metal shades only give directional lighting, which is great for a desk or work area, but not for ambient lighting. Fabric shades are much softer.

  Emily Henderson

  Giving, Shade, Desks

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• You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does.

  Rick Santorum

  Doe, Our Society, Arguing

  "Raw Data: Excerpts of Santorum's AP Interview". Associated Press interview, www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2003.

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• Over the years, I've learned that you can have fun with the fabrics and other elements, but if it's not tailored right, you'll blow it.

  James Marsden

  Fun, Blow, Years

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• To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Football, Thinking, Guy

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• For a long time Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture. That was a good thing …. But the season of sewing is ending. Now is a time for rending, not for the sake of disengaging from culture or retreating from the public square, but so that our salt does not lose its savor.

  R. R. Reno

  Teaching, Squares, Long

  "A Time to Rend" by R. R. Reno, www.firstthings.com. November 18, 2014.

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• Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family

  Ban Ki-moon

  Expression, Safety, Migration

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• I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny.

  Deepak Chopra

  Destiny, Unbroken, I Can

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• We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it's never a question of 'critical mass.' It's always about critical connections.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Connections, World, Invisible

  James Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs (1974). “Revolution and Evolution”, p.44, NYU Press

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