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• Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Loyalty, Feelings, Fundamentals

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

  William McFee

  Responsibility, Sight, Ethics

  "Casuals of the Sea : The Voyage of a Soul" by William McFee, Book II: The City, Ch. VI, 1916.

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• World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

  Denis Healey

  Money, Issues, Political

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• The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Soul, Violin

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• Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one.

  Rumi

  Ties, Hundred, Knots

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• Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Eye

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of sulphates, sulphites, and sulphures, may have served no end than to have retarded the progress of science by a jargon, from the confusion of which time will be requisite to extricate us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Science, Confusion, Confusing

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.432, Cambridge University Press

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• My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

  David Platt

  Strings Attached, Life Is, Checks

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• We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

  Marge Piercy

  Sexy, Lying, Eye

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Colors Passing Through Us”, p.134, Knopf

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• With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

  Lisa Loeb

  Daughter, Mother, Art

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• In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Play, Skills, Soul

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Done, Firsts, Changed

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• In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other pianos in the room start to vibrate. It is just the same when we express a pure wish in our ardent prayers: all around us we mobilize angels who are inspired by the same wish.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Prayer, Angel, Echoes

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• Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings

  John Motson

  Wenger, Purses

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• Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.

  Al Gore

  Country, Two, Long

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• Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must develop its capacity for autocratic control. Thus, the "Free World" increasingly resembles a dreary string of heartless police states.

  Michael Parenti

  Heartless, Police, World

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• Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.

  Lee Smolin

  Guitar, Words Of Wisdom, Ordinary

  Lee Smolin (1999). “The Life of the Cosmos”, p.65, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.

  Rumi

  Knots, Thousand, Stills

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• People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

  Richard Mitchell

  Educational, Writing, Technology

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• The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Music, Expression, Perfect

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• I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.

  Wes Montgomery

  Starting Over, Gone, Jazz

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• The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to the next by a logical string. In truth, whenever we discover a new fact it involves the elimination of old ones. We are always, as it turns out, fundamentally in error.

  Lewis Thomas

  Science, Errors, Facts

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• Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

  Sean Wilentz

  Reading, Kids, Library

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• Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.

  William James

  Courage, Attitude, Fear

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• The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.

  Jackson Pearce

  Believe, Way

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