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«I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.»
«Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.»
«In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art ? the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard?s canvases ? beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.»
Author: Anne Rice
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Author)
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About:
Art,
Beauty
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Keywords:
canvases,
clay,
codes,
code of conduct,
coherent,
conspire,
conspired,
conspires,
Conspiring,
dizzied,
dizzying,
Fragonard,
grandeur,
lawless,
quartet,
refinements,
savage,
sprawl,
sprawled,
sprawling,
string,
tablet,
tablets,
The Tablet
«I went to the park and saw this kid flying a kite. The kid was really excited. I don't know why, that's what they're supposed to do. Now if he had had a chair on the other end of that string, I would have been impressed.»
«I believe everyody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string.»
Author: Scott Adams
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Cartoonist)
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Keywords:
ammunition,
bazooka,
bazookas,
citizens,
frankly,
goober,
guns,
rocket,
rockets,
string,
The Rocket,
weapons
«In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? / For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.»
«It might well be said of me that here I have merely made up a bunch of other men's flowers, and provided nothing of my own but the string to bind them.»
«Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bead,
beads,
colored,
focus,
hue,
In the Mood,
In Training,
its color,
lenses,
moods,
paint,
pass,
pass through,
prove,
shows,
string,
stringing,
The Lens,
train
«Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.»
Author: William James
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Philosopher,
Psychologist)
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Keywords:
exception,
lapse,
lapsed,
lapses,
lapsing,
occur,
rooted,
securely,
slip,
string,
undoes,
winding,
windings
«Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.»