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• Wearing a breathable fabric is the most important thing for me. I also love to keep it simple and keep the number of garments Im wearing ideally at one (a sundress for example), and then add some great jewelry.

  Hilary Rhoda

  Simple, Numbers, Important

  "All-American Beauty Hilary Rhoda Gives Up Her Style Secrets". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 19, 2012.

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• I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and its in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

  Samuel J. Palmisano

  Thinking, Missing, Ships

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• Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Simple, Always Trying, Design

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• I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.

  Candice Olson

  Thinking, Light, People

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• Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

  Kim Edwards

  Community, Understanding, Woven

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• There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with the artistic community as we celebrate this diversity of creative vision.

  David Dixon

  Fashion, Art, Breathing

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• So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube. To all the words in the English language that describe ways to die (e.g., homicide, suicide, electrocution, suffocation, starvation) we add the term spaghettification.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Suicide, Fall, Science

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• Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down, and erects a new structure... The sincere Christian is quite a new fabric, from the foundation to the top-stone. He is a new man, a new creature; all things are become new. Conversion is a deep work, a heart work. It makes a new man in a new world. It extends to the whole man, to the mind, to the members, to the motions of the whole life.

  Joseph Alleine

  Christian, Heart, Men

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• One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts, fresh actions. All of which has a mighty important bearing on the economy. There are those of us who think that the psychology of man, each and together, has more impact on markets, business, services and building and all the fabric of an economy than all the more measurable statistical indices.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Spring, Men, Thinking

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• Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but "feeding on unearned wealth." This hurts their nature and debases the social fabric. If a woman does no labor in her home which could properly make her self-supporting outside that home she is in duty bound to do something outside her home to justify her claim to support.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Hurt, Home, Self

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• I remain a religious agnostic, but, unlike most atheists, I not only am not hostile to traditional religion but consider it a highly valuable, not to say essential, social institution... I am convinced that the moral regeneration and repair of a frayed social fabric that this country so badly needs will not take place unless more people take their religion seriously.

  Guenter Lewy

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary and deliberate revisions and additions of our own, more or less directly occasioned by the continuing stimulation of our sense organs. It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Father, White, Hands

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

  Waris Ahluwalia

  Tailors, Hunts

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• I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Art, Quilts, Women

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• Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to be achieved, were woven into the fabric that linked oneself to all. . .

  Nathan Huggins

  Character, Height, Woven

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• If our courts lose their authority and their rulings are no longer respected, there will be no one left to resolve the divisive issues that can rip the social fabric apart ... The courts are a safety valve without which no democratic society can survive.

  Rose Bird

  Rip, Issues, Safety

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• I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Women, Fall

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• Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.

  Raisa Gorbacheva

  Self, People, Growth

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• Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Men, Would Be

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis, on which the whole American fabric has been erected.... The principles, therefore, so established, are deemed fundamental. And as the authority, from which they proceed, is supreme ... they are designed to be permanent.... The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written.

  John Marshall

  Government, People, Fundamentals

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• You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Thinking, Design

  "Sermon 19:2 on the New Testament". "Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series". Book edited by Philip Schaff, translated by R.G. MacMullen, Volume 6, www.newadvent.org.

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• Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.

  Daniel Levitin

  Mother, Prayer, War

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.6, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out, a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts, you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Stars, Believe, Taken

  Czeslaw Milosz, “On Angels”

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• The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Father, White, Black

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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