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• John Michell's The Dimensions of Paradise is inarguably among the most important Gnostic transmissions of recent generations. With his candid, uncomplicated style, John has made widely available the visions, the laws, and the numbers held within pure geometry and which integrate earth and sky, movement and form, cosmos and mankind.

  Robert Lawlor

  Law, Sky, Numbers

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• I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it.

  Michael Jackson

  Spiritual, Artist, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jun 26, 2015

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• Climb the ladder to success escalator style

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Ladders, Climbs, Escalators

  Song: Just a Memory, Album: Duets: The Final Chapter

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• Black musicians rhythmicized the contredanse, creating musical styles which evolved into the habanera (also known as the tango) and, later, ragtime, as well as the danza, danzón, and ultimately the danzón mambo and its offspring the cha-cha-chá.

  Ned Sublette

  Creating, Black, Musical

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• Just look at me! Beauty. Style. A little vision of perfection. I love myself and that's enough.

  Maryse Ouellet

  Perfection, Vision, Looks

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• The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Suits, Forget

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• One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Fighting, Winning

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• No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cheer, Writing, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Oratory, Speech

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir race, and are not deficient in girth also, we are amazed at the immense sacrifice of thews and sinews. What! these proportions, these bones,--and this their work! Hands which could have felled an ox have hewed this fragile matter which would not have tasked a lady's fingers! Can this be a stalwart man's work, who has a marrow in his back and a tendon Achilles in his heel?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Sacrifice, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.996, Delphi Classics

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• If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Indulge In, Long, Ends

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.240, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap enough. There may benothing lofty in the sentiment, or fine in the expression, but it is careless country talk. Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. Some have this merit only.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Art, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.518, Simon and Schuster

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• Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month's labor in the farmer's almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Men, Records

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

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• In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.

  Mason Cooley

  Witty, Winning, Plot

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• The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

  Mason Cooley

  Museums, Parody, Available

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• The noble style immobilizes its subjects.

  Mason Cooley

  Noble, Subjects

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• Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

  Mason Cooley

  Sacrifice, Comfort, Virtue

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• We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Hard Work, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.385, Modern Library

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• Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Hands, Attention

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

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• Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no favor.They do not speak a good word for her. Most cry better than they speak, and you can get more nature out of them by pinching than by addressing them. The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature. Better that the primrose by the river's brim be a yellow primrose, and nothing more, than that it be something less.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.76, Xist Publishing

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• Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Nature, Extravagance

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.953, Delphi Classics

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• Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Expansion, United States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Class, Effort, Growth

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• I've always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, "Aren't you tired of always playing Tracy?" Tracy replied, "What am I supposed to do, play Bogart?" You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

  LeBron James

  Tired, Play, Suits You

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• Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Perfection, Principles, Arise

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book I. Chapter II, Sec. 5, 15BC.

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