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Over the course of the years, I've learned [that] fashion is a fascinating business about selling magic. It is done on the backs of our… — Robin Givhan
Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green -… — Jerry Rice
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. — Johannes Tauler
A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and… — Hilary Mantel
We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions as… — Walter Weyl
Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant. — Max Lucado
It is hot in Tokyo, itâ€™s humid, Iâ€™m tired, all of these backs are in front of you, Iâ€™m not going to make the team… — Terrell Davis
Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify… — Audre Lorde
Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This… — Danny Baker
The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American… — Carl T. Rowan
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach… — Alberto Manguel
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. — Mignon McLaughlin
Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken. — Idries Shah
The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe… — Huey Newton
We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition… — Manmohan Singh
You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's… — Ayelet Waldman
No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people. — Fidel Castro
You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying… — Dave Barry
The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall.… — Ralph Washington Sockman

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