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I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that… — Harold B. Lee
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological… — Rachel Carson
The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.'… — Daniele Vare
Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And… — Helen Hunt Jackson
I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet… — John Keats
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon… — Hamlin Garland
The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected. — Al Gore
I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you… — Willem Dafoe
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his… — Arthur Erickson
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. — Richard P. Feynman
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. — George Herbert
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… — Victor Hugo
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. — Jesse Jackson
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended… — Henry James
One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no… — Penn Jillette
I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of… — Steve Jobs
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my… — Lorna Luft
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. — Horace Mann
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a… — Hilary Mantel
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… — Marcel Marceau

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