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• When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Ideas, Happens, Picks

  Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

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• There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

  Warren E. Burger

  Prayer, Practice, Doubt

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• The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Moving, Destiny

  Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”

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• When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.

  Herbert Croly

  Organization, Democracy, Woven

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

  Francesca Annis

  Regret, Special, Hollywood

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• The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Relationship, Real

  Barbara De Angelis (1997). “Real Moments for Lovers: The Enlightened Guide for Discovering Total Passion and True Intimacy”, Dell

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• It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

  Agnes Repplier

  Life, Men, Self

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”

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• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

  George Eliot

  Sports, Ignorance, Knowledge

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, p.38

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• The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.

  Alexander Hamilton

  People, Empires, Flow

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.106, Cambridge University Press

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• When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

  Miles Franklin

  Friendship, Real, Love Is

  Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”

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• I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

  Steve Earle

  Thinking, Political, Persons

  "'Making Art in America is a Political Statement in Itself': Grammy Award-winning Singer Steve Earle on Music, Writing and Acting". "Democracy Now!" with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 13, 2011.

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• A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Character, Men, Hands

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• This is my main shortcoming: I was so determined not to lose time that I often did the wrong thing. Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old, when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its very fabric, something that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify, or obtain by begging.

  Nina Berberova

  Time, Years, Three

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• The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Strong, Writing, Kids

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• If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy. And at the end of it, you get a bedspread or some curtains or something to wear - it's lovely.

  Twiggy

  Lovely, Patterns, Want

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• I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in so well, is such a part of the fabric of the story and of the characters' lives, that it is subtle but meaningful. This is difficult to do well and is something I constantly endeavor to improve.

  Julie Klassen

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Believe

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• Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Fabric Of Life, Consistency

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• Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Uplifting, Wisdom, Nature

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.

  Richard Hough

  Sea, Warfare, Woods

  Richard Hough (2001). “Great naval battles of the 20th century”

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• When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

  Gordon Gee

  Weavers, Produce, Duty

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• Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Diversity, Social, Despite

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• If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

  Jesse Ventura

  Double Standard, Bras, If I Could

  Playboy Interview, November 1999.

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• And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

  Lesley Garrett

  Woven, Harsh, Existence

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• Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Freedom, Patriotic, Men

  Chester A. Arthur's statement upon the death of President Garfield, as quoted in "Messages and Papers of the Presidents", Volume 8, 1897.

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• The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

  Julie Christie

  Years, Single Life, Firsts

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