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• I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the corsets that I did in bridal, they were trends in ready-to-wear, too.

  Vera Wang

  Thinking, Color, Trends

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• The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fighting, Soldier, Pieces

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• You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Emotional, Different

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• I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name of security, the authority that we've given Democratic and Republican presidents, all have contributed to a fraying of the fabric of our democratic republic.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Thinking, Names, President

  Source: collider.com

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• Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain [your vision] to the fabric cutters. Instead, lots of designers drape - it's the new way.

  Valentino Garavani

  Design, Vision, Important

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• The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Girl, Queens, Mean

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• Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Humanity, Violence, Crime

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• Cotton candy is the perfect snack for when I'm in the mood to eat dry, scratchy fabric.

  Demetri Martin

  Snacks, Perfect, Dry

  FaceBook post by Demetri Martin from Apr 09, 2013

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• The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.

  Henry Adams

  Party, Hands, Reform

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn’t know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, ‘Mom, I don’t like direct sunlight, I don’t like bugs, I don’t like grass, and I’d rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.’

  Nate Berkus

  Mom, Baseball, Mother

  "Nate Berkus Talks Being Gay, Coming Out And Loss Of Longtime Partner With Joy Behar". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2012.

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• I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Children, Real, Believe

  "Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more rarely into the classrooms. Therefore they only offer a modest hope of influencing the basic culture of the school

  Roland Barthes

  Teacher, School, Culture

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• It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.

  Rick Reilly

  Sports, Country, Reading

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• The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Learning, Science

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.237

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• Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They're taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they don't want to come over and just give advice. They want to give it to you in a form that becomes inseparable from your whole self. That's what stories do. Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you.

  Alice Walker

  Real, Healing, Self

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• [I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subject; it is well known, that the language and the notions proper to his own profession are infused into every subject, and all things are measured by the rules of navigation: and if he should take it into his head to philosophize concerning the faculties of the mind, it cannot be doubted, but he would draw his notions from the fabric of the ship, and would find in the mind, sails, masts, rudder, and compass.

  Thomas Reid

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• I am constantly looking to push boundaries with materials, bring in new weights, and work in fabrics unexpectedly.

  Roksanda Ilincic

  Weight, Boundaries, Materials

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.

  William Faulkner

  Artist, Littles, Speak

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• What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.

  Jesse Jackson

  Baby, Attitude, Taken

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• I think you'd have to be a pretty brave man to say "never go out of style," but men's suiting has been relatively stable for 100 years now. The single-breasted, two-button gray flannel suit, you could've worn it in exactly the same cut, shape and fabric in 1910 as you wear it in 2010.

  Patrick Grant

  Cutting, Men, Thinking

  "Recognize Craftsmanship". Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• I wanted to feel good about the way I looked. I didn't understand why style had to be sacrificed for sports technology. I found when going to the gym women were wearing their own tees, without the technology. I started to think, does it make you run faster if you wear that terrible color or sweat less if you wear that horrible fabric? And I challenged it, and the answers were not there to why we were being given poor design work. It was something I wanted to bring to women's wardrobes.

  Stella McCartney

  Sports, Running, Technology

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this fun idea to create a line of what was in my makeup bag. But I also love accessories, and people associate me with home, family, and beauty. As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would! I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.

  Aerin Lauder

  Girl, Fun, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.

  Willis Regier

  Cover Ups, Lovers, Honest

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.8, U of Nebraska Press

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• Facebook has woven itself into the fabric of our lives and the foundation of the Internet. I think everything will be redefined because people are using their real identities on the Internet.

  Ruchi Sanghvi

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Ruchi Sanghvi, Facebook’s First Female Engineer: ‘It Was Difficult To Break Into The Boys’ Club’". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2011.

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