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• Comfort, simplicity, practicality - these are all American words. It is simplicity in fabric and way of cut. You cannot produce complicated clothes or spend ten days making a dress. Mine is all done by scaling measurements. I use the body as the land, as when building a house.

  Zoran

  Cutting, Land, Clothes

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• It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.

  E. M. Forster

  Time, Novelists, Stories

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.50, RosettaBooks

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• I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Discipline, People

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1985, Best Books on

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• Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Taken, Passion

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But Im a glass half-full kind of guy.

  Prabal Gurung

  Glasses, Guy, Roles

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• Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

  Hafez

  Hope, Wine, Fabric Of Life

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• There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Meals, Pieces

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• I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

  Prabal Gurung

  Thinking, Fit, Construction

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• Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

  Drew Houston

  Mean, Data, Car

  "How Did This 28-Year-Old Frat Boy End Up Worth $600 Million? A Dropbox FAQ". Interview with Nicholas Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2011.

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• The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

  Kay Hagan

  Children, Desire, Special

  "Sen. Hagan on marriage: 'It's time to move forward'" by Phil Reese, www.washingtonblade.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Selfless Giving

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• Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows.

  Rachel Carson

  Land, Water, Community

  "Essay on the Biological Sciences". Good Reading, 1958.

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• I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding.

  Ani DiFranco

  Expression, Progress, World

  Song: The Slant, Album: Ani DiFranco

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• I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Inspiration, Mean, Ideas

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• And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud; how the black cord makes of them a single fabric that nothing can tear or mend.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Love, Two, People

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Of Gravity & Angels”, p.34, Wesleyan University Press

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• It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory.

  Frederick Franck

  Whole, Separateness, Illusory

  "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 77, 1985.

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• YOU'RE just humming with sexual energy! Is it the fabric? Is it wearing tights?

  Richard Madeley

  Energy, Tights, Humming

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• Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

  Don Yaeger

  Design, Decision

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• Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

  Ben Goldacre

  Data, Pavement, World

  "There's a wealth of data out there - why not let us use it?" by Ben Goldacre, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Dream, Art, Writing

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• Steve Grand is the creator of what I think is the nearest approach to artificial life so far, and his first book, Creation: Life and How to Make It, is as interesting as you would expect. But he illuminates more than just the properties of life: his originality extends to matter itself and the very nature of reality. Not since David Deutsch's The Fabric of Reality have I encountered such a compelling invitation to think everything out afresh, from the bottom up.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, Reality, Thinking

  "What were you looking at?: A host of celebrity critics choose their books of the year". www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2000.

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• If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

  Alan Watts

  Self, White, Black

  "The Nature of Consciousness". Book by Alan Watts, 1960.

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• You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.

  Regina Spektor

  Cancer, Fall, Writing

  "What Regina Spektor Sees From the Cheap Seats". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2012.

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• My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

  John Hope Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, History

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• I loved the idea that people dressed up to go to the gardens. Our work always has a utility point of view at its heartbeat and then other things come around it, so it really allowed us to use denims and suedes and gauzes, and those sorts of hard-working fabrics - workwear fabrics - and then contrast them with crepe de chine, beautiful florals and big jewelry.

  Karen Walker

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Garden

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