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• Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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• Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

  Josiah Royce

  Hints, Glimpse, Life Is

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.

  Bo Gritz

  Team, Digging, Laos

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• We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

  Allan Bloom

  Civilization, Ignorant, Shepherds

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Romantic, World, May

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “On Love & Happiness”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away, fascinated by my own busyness. I want to turn all this over to You slowly, carefully, examining every fragment as I pass it off, so there'll never be any question about it again. Every time I've dumped and run, I've nearly always run back and snatched it out of Your hands. Help me in this.......Right now, I'm certain of only one thing - that You love us, and that's where we all have to begin.

  Jan Karon

  Running, Hands, Grace

  Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: Novels Six Through Nine; Plus a Father Tim Novel”, p.1589, Penguin

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• The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

  Pope Paul VI

  Art, Lust, Crystals

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• Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Flower, Angel

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 26, 1843.

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• I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

  Laurence Sterne

  Smile, Laughter, Men

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.3, eBookIt.com

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• Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

  Havelock Ellis

  Beautiful, Eugenics, Rocks

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.109, Elsevier

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• We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

  Allan Bloom

  Beautiful, Civilization, Play

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.

  Terry Riley

  Play, Musician, Sound

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• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  Edgar Quinet

  Past, Law, Humanity

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• What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sad Love, Believe, Bad Relationship

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.675, Hamilton Books

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• To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen.... But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.

  John Berger

  Moving, World, May

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.46, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.

  Jacques Ellul

  Prayer, Together, Creation

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• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Over You, May, Patterns

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• I am a writer of fragments.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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• Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

  Charles Stewart Parnell

  Ireland And The Irish, England, Should

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• Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Writing, Perfect, Goddess

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• The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

  George Mercer Dawson

  Stones, Fossils, Sand

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• When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Desire, Culture, Failing

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• Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.

  Donald Johanson

  Hands, Skulls, Teeth

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Wise, Stupid, Unique

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• It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

  William Gibson

  Moving, Technology, Leaving

  William Gibson (2014). “Burning Chrome”, p.17, Harper Collins

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