“ The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. ”
- Daniel Defoe- Copy
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“ The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. ”
- James Clerk Maxwell- Copy
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“ Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. ”
- James Allen- Copy
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“ He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; He that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but He that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them. ”
- Bettina Ballard- Copy
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“ I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. ”
- Francis Ford Coppola- Copy
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“ Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
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“ Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. ”
- Jean Anouilh- Copy
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“ Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. ”
- Jules Renard- Copy
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“ It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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“ Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us. ”
- John Bradshaw- Copy
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“ All this was inspired by the principle — which is quite true in itself — that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods… ”
- Adolf Hitler- Copy
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