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• To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Cutting, Knives, Two

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• Vee is my un-twin. She's green-eyed, milky blond, and a few pounds over curvy. I'm a smoky-eyed brunette with volumes of curly hair that holds its own against even the best flatiron. And I'm all legs, like a bar stool. But there is an invisible thread the ties us together; both of us swear that tie began long before birth. Both of us swear it will continue to hold for the rest of our lives.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Curly Hair, Ties, Long

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• Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Together, Good Things, Okay

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• Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips chained ears entrance Than hers that move, true to its striking hours; No hands so white e'er decked the warrior's lance, As those which tend its lamp as darkness lours; And never since dear Christ expired for man, Had holy shrine so fair a sacristan.

  Alfred Austin

  Flower, Moving, Warrior

  Alfred Austin (1873). “Madonna's child [a poem].”, p.4

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• Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.

  Alice Hoffman

  Kissing, Years, Waiting

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “The Probable Future”, Random House LLC

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• This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Patience, Blow, Tangled

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• The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens , provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Feelings, Consistency, Lasts

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.1, Regent College Publishing

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• That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.

  Homer

  Death, Song, Men

  Homer (1996). “The Odyssey”, Viking Press

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• Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?

  Sarah Waters

  Love, Heart, Done

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Affinity”, p.351, Penguin

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• Time doth run with calm and silent foot,
  Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Running, Time, Feet

  Christopher Marlowe (2014). “Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus”, p.524, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives.

  Antonio Guterres

  Courage, Common Threads, Different

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• These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

  James Russell Lowell

  Moon, Bed, Pearls

  'In a Copy of Omar Khayy m'

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• In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of ones own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Pain, War, Islamic

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• Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

  Kevin Ashton

  Math, Thinking, Simple

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• I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we seem to have carved out something between us that none of the madness can touch. Invisible threads.

  Lisa Shannon

  Eye, People, Atrocities

  Lisa Shannon (2010). “A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman”, p.315, Seal Press

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• Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stars, Father, War

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• All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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• From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

  Honore de Balzac

  Stitches, Needlework, Draws

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• There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.

  Rosamond Marshall

  Community, Together, Lines

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• You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior's discipline

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Running, Warrior, Journey

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

  Bill Frist

  America, Important, Tapestry

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• We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

  James Krenov

  Discovery, Curiosity, Pearls

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• All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

  Ovid

  Love, Life, Fall

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• In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

  Syd Mead

  Reality, Lines, Fantasy

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• It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the same manner as it is found easy to explain past events in political history, by an acquaintance with the passions and intrigues of the present day. But we shall presently see that unfortunately this is not the case in physical history:-the thread of operation is here broken, the march of nature is changed, and none of the agents that she now employs were sufficient for the production of her ancient works.

  Georges Cuvier

  Passion, Mean, Past

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