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• Creation is great, and cannot be understood.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Understood

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.4

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• The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

  William Ames

  May, Efficiency, Providence

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

  James Joyce

  Art, Invisible, Fingernails

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916).

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• In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Creation Of Man, Actors

  Henry Miller (1978). “Quiet days in Clichy and The world of sex: two books”, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

  John Ruskin

  Passion, Men, Creation Of Man

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation”, p.109

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• For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

  Paul the Apostle

  Children, Pain, Frustration

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• Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

  John Polkinghorne

  Doctrine, Attention, Stories

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Commitment, Ideas

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• To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

  Paul Twitchell

  Giving Up, Creative, Force

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• A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  Distribution, Company, Products

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• Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.

  S. Robson Walton

  Bangs, Calling, Bigs

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• Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Love, Money, Greatest Wealth

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Angel, Men, Shy

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• Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Love, Money, Men

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Thoughtful, Poetry

  "The Poetic Principle". Essay by Edgar Allan Poe, 1850.

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• Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Highest, Human Beings

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.128, editionNEXT.com

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• God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Creation Of Man, Done

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• Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Business, Ocean, Race

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.

  John Eldredge

  Coaching, Glory, Pale

  John Eldredge (2008). “Eldredge 3 in 1 - Sacred Romance , Waking the Dead, Desire”, p.259, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

  Voltaire

  Dream, Watches, World

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• The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

  Albert Pike

  Eye, Men, Cheerful

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Jobs, Opportunity, Relief

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• Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

  Steve Jobs

  Men, Design, Soul

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not merely the possession of the earth, but the very sky, the air, and the sea are claimed for the use of the rich few... The earth belongs to all, not just to the rich.

  Ambrose

  Air, Sea, Sky

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