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• Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.

  John Templeton

  Beautiful, Expression, Survival

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• Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

  Horace Mann

  Motivational, Positive, Happiness

  "Graded Selections for Memorizing : Adapted for Use at Home and in School" by John Bradley Peaslee, (p. 104), 1880.

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• Life is a thread that someone entangled.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life Is

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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• There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Mean, Democracies Have

  "A Cult of Ignorance". Newsweek, January 21, 1980.

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• Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, - these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, - these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.

  J. C. Ryle

  Running, Children, Kindness

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.5, Booklassic

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• Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Kindness, Together, Golden

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• I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most.

  Marissa Mayer

  Thinking, Common Threads, Two

  "How I Made It: Marissa Mayer, Google's champion of innovation and design" by Jessica Guynn, articles.latimes.com. January 2, 2011.

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• Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Needles, Needle And Thread, Handle

  Ernst Hans Gombrich (1977). “Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation”

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• A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.

  Alice Hoffman

  Blood, Sorrow, Done

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• We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

  Maya Angelou

  Color, Kwanzaa, Common Threads

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• The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Life, Strong

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• America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

  Jesse Jackson

  Color, America, Diversity

  1988 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Omni Coliseum, Atlanta GA

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• The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.

  Anais Nin

  Morning, Book, Heart

  "House of Incest". Book by Anais Nin, 1936.

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• On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Slender, Fortune

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• A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Littles, Great Men

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• So, it was really important that I go do the necessary research. In doing the research, I spent time with a lot of medics and women down at Fort Bliss. I went through an intensive medical course there, with other medics. And then, I really sat down with all of the women that had been deployed, or were getting ready to deploy again. The common thread for them was family, and what a struggle it was for them to come home and face their children and flip a switch.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Children, Struggle, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

  Victor Hugo

  Morning, Time, Labyrinth

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• When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Self, Wind

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• If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.

  Mike Godwin

  Nazi, Discussion, Ifs

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• The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

  Eudora Welty

  Life, Time, Order

  1984 One Writer's Beginnings, II. 'Learning to See'.

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• We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Teamwork, Kwanzaa, Common Threads

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• I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Flower, Together

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1845). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c”, p.489

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• And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Profound, Perfect

  Walt Whitman (1991). “Selected Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Crystals, Problem

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sweet, Together, Engagement

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.95, Hackett Publishing

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