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• Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Pain, Iron, Giving

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• It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

  Julia Alvarez

  Writing, Together, World

  Julia Alvarez (2007). “Before We Were Free”, p.44, Laurel Leaf

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• I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

  Illeana Douglas

  Horror Genre, Scary, Want

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• I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.

  Marcel Marceau

  Destiny, Men, Light

  Wall Street Journal, November 19, 1965.

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• The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Destiny, Battle

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• I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.

  E. B. White

  Men, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• Life and death are one thread.

  Laozi

  Life And Death, Different Sides, Both Sides

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• The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross of Jesus Christ is all about. There is no pattern without the cross. There is no Good News without it. That is what the gospel is all about.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Disappointment, Heart

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• Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Freedom, Our Words

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• Separation isnt time or distance
  its the bridge between us
  finer than silk thread sharper than swords

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Distance, Bridges, Separation

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• I have been fortunate to have been brought up on a diet of adventure and privileged to take part in number of challenges. My training in the Royal Marines taught me to be professional at all times, even in dangerous and frightening circumstances. But fear can be dispelled by knowledge and preparation. Life hangs on a very thin thread and the cancer of time is complacency. If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.

  Pete Goss

  Cancer, Adventure, Marine

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• I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, I took my first yoga class in 1980 and knew from the start that it would be a lifelong passion.

  Rodney Yee

  Philosophy, Yoga, Passion

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• If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

  Rob Pike

  Want, Good Things, Knows

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• Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Caring, Ties, Together

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• Remember, no matter what you background is and what your current circumstances are, you have the capacity to take action. This is one of the golden threads of humanity - we all have the power to act in a way that will improve the quality of our lives.

  Robin Sharma

  Humanity, Quality, Matter

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• Literally draw a detailed map-like an organization chart-of interlocking ownership and affiliates, many of which were also publicly traded. So, identifying one stock led him to a dozen other potential investments. To tirelessly pull threads is the lesson that I learned from Mike Price.

  Seth Klarman

  Organization, Maps, Lessons

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• Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

  Russell Kirk

  Civilization, Intellectual, Together

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• Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

  Edgar Guest

  Children, Jewels, Years

  Edgar Albert Guest, “The Children”

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• As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

  Hannah Kent

  Prayer, Mistake, Woven

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.

  Tiziano Terzani

  Mirrors, Giving, Humanity

  Tiziano Terzani (1997). “A fortune-teller told me”, HarperCollins

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• History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.

  Rudolf Hess

  Broken, Forever, Together

  Rudolf Hess (1954). “Prisoner of Peace”

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• do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.

  Elinor Glyn

  Friendship, Two, Soul

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• There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

  Gordon Brown

  Running, Golden, Economics

  Gordon Brown (2006). “Moving Britain Forward: Selected Speeches, 1997-2006”, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Reality, Agreement, Wild Imagination

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• My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Careers, Lines

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