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The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a…
— Walter Gropius
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If it respected religion, Israel would have transferred these synagogues back to its territory.
— Mohammed Dahlan
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Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a…
— Wallace Stegner
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But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from…
— Annie Dillard
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The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do…
— Dalton Trumbo
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There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night…
— Dalton Trumbo
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If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you…
— Joe Abercrombie
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Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for…
— Richard Adams
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The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be implemented is approval…
— Douglas Alexander
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there…
— Alan Paton
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s…
— Nadine Gordimer
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I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.
— Louise Bourgeois
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I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail,…
— Jenny Holzer
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What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it…
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb…
— Joseph Conrad
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In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life.
— Esther Perel
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I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!
— R. G. LeTourneau
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Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.
— Amit Ray
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I didn't set out to become a leader, so I always come back to my first lesson - just do it. If you're the first…
— Unknown Author
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When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt…
— Tom Preston-Werner
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I had an opportunity many, many times to go to the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner. Jerry Buss asked me many times and you know…
— Marcel Dionne
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Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
— Alan Bullock
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If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.
— Katherine Heigl
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's…
— Pat Morita
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Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the…
— William Blake
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