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• You take a journey into the Unmanifested every night when you enter the phase of deep dreamless sleep. You merge with the Source. You draw from it the vital energy that sustains you for a while when you return to the manifested, the world of separate forms.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Sleep, Night, Journey

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.132, New World Library

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• Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible.  By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength.

  Ruth Wisse

  Home, Men, America

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• There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  May, Prudent, Advantage

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• Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Reality, Self, Organization

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History”, p.428, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says.

  Meister Eckhart

  Father, Order, Evil

  "Meister Eckhart's Sermons". Book by Meister Eckhart, 1909.

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• Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.

  Michael Drayton

  Grief, Sorrow, Comfort

  Michael Drayton (1753). “The Works of Michael Drayton, Esq”, p.358

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• Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

  Orson Scott Card

  Humble, Men, Trying

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?

  Paul Gauguin

  Drawing, Color, People

  Letter to Charles Morice, July 1901.

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• When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles which hold for the clothes of the past must hold for clothes of the present and the future.

  James Laver

  Fashion, Past, Clothes

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• And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

  Pete Seeger

  Art, Pops, Fine

  "Show 1 - Play A Simple Melody: American pop music in the early fifties, Part 1". Interview on radio documentary series "Pop Chronicles", digital.library.unt.edu. February 14, 1968.

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• I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.

  William Powell

  Needs, Failing, Devices

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 92, 1971.

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• Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Prayer, Hands, Soul

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Arrows, Let It Go

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Beauty draws more than oxen.

  George Herbert

  Beauty, Oxen

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168

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• Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Happiness, Men, Air

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

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• There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a "free" line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as "free" as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision.

  John Ruskin

  Hands, Lines, Firsts

  John Ruskin (1869). “The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm”, p.169

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• Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

  Al Hirschfeld

  Creativity, Lines, Way

  Of Edward Lear and James Thurber. Quoted in Neil A Grauer Remember Laughter (1994).

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• Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

  Alfred Austin

  Nature, Law, Purpose

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

  Samuel Smiles

  Leadership, Character, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.17

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• I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

  Mary Gardiner Brainard

  Distance, Dark, Past

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• The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.

  Lord Acton

  Fighting, Evil, Giving

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Men, Advice, Constitution

  "Diary of Thomas Burton Esq: Volume 2, April 1657 - February 1658". Book by Thomas Burton, www.british-history.ac.uk. 1828.

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• Jesus is the best clue we have as to what God is like and He is consistently gracious and merciful, especially to those who are failures. He is harsh to uptight, judgmental people, but merciful and gracious to the failures. He seems to draw out the smallest kernel of faith in each person that He's with. So, I presume that that's the way God is going to judge humanity.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, People, Judging

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• The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.

  John Tillotson

  Lying, Men, Giving

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.186

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• Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace -- the many inquiries -- the fond regrets and thrilling hopes -- it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.

  George Henry Lewes

  Regret, Veils, Inquiry

  George Henry Lewes (1847). “Ranthorpe ...”, p.317

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