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• Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

  Isaac Marion

  Stupid, Cynical, Apathy

  Isaac Marion (2011). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Space, Water, Hot

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2010

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• A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

  Clint Eastwood

  Eye, People, Realizing

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• I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

  Vladimir Putin

  Pigs, Littles, Scream

  "Putin: NSA whistleblower Snowden is in Moscow airport". Speech on an official visit to Finland, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2013.

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• the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Snow, Sorrow, Weavers

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• I love a good wool suit, and I appreciate the fact that it's a natural fiber. I know where it comes from, and I know how it's bred. And it's built to last. It breathes and it feels good. A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool, because I can wear it for a week straight and it doesn't smell. And when you get hot and sweaty in a cold temperature, it stays warm. So your body temperature stays at a good warmth rather than freezing your ass off.

  Jason Clarke

  Climbing, Smell, Hiking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd's fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even the air, in God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Wise, Men, Air

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• I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.

  Alexandra Paul

  Leather, Silk

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• Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Sheep, Iron, Long

  Speech in Greenock (7 October 1903), quoted in "Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reform Campaign" by Julian Amery, London: Macmillan, (p. 471), 1969.

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• I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hurt, Pain, Children

  Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Schulkind (1976). “Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings”, Sussex University Press

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• I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

  Nancy Grace

  Eye, Thinking, Constitution

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• I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

  Huey Long

  Party, Men, Right Now

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• When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay within this Law, steer clear of wool/pearl/silk/ fish bone/ fur/ivory/coral/ down/beeswax/honey/ cashmere/ lanolin/ feathers/ camel hair/flesh/milk/ eggs/ fish/ seafood/ other!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Hair, Law

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• The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is not going to have the wool pulled over his eyes. It speaks of a fundamental placement in relation to the work, that of a voyager in the world coming upon a strange object. The reader reconstitutes the work by his active participation, by approaching the object, tapping it, shaking it, holding it to his ear to hear the roaring within. It is characteristic of the object that it does not declare itself all at once, in a rush of pleasant naïveté.

  Donald Barthelme

  Eye, Men, Vets

  "After Joyce (1964)". "Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme". Book by Donald Barthelme, p. 4, 1997.

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• For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

  Rumer Godden

  Book, Cat, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

  St. Jerome

  Purple, Mind, Impression

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.399, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Wheat, Milk

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Sheep, Perception, May

  Evelyn Underhill, Aeterna Press (2014). “Practical Mysticism”, p.17, Aeterna Press

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• I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

  Bob Gunton

  Father, Son, Knights

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

  Gary Coleman

  Eye, Government, Scams

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• Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

  James A. Garfield

  Ideas, Feet, Great Idea

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.359, Best Books on

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• I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest.

  Jason Ritter

  Country, Powerful, Smart

  "Blair Underwood & Jason Ritter talk 'The Event'". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 18, 2010.

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• I think the dyed-in-the-wool, hard-core liberal - and remember, the more dyed-in-the-wool, the more hard-core, the more ignorant they are, and yet they don't know that. They think they're the opposite of ignorant. They're the last to fall, and some of them have dug themselves so deep now here in opposition to [Donald] Trump I don't think that they can ever in their minds with credibility.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Fall, Thinking, Opposites

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.

  Charles James

  Important, Dresses, Magazines

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