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• A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Creativity, Heritage, Elements

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• Faith wouldn't be faith without having to trust what is unseen. That's difficult sometimes, and it's almost easier to put our trust in what is tangible. But God wants us to put one foot in front of the other and just step out on faith.

  Rebecca St. James

  Feet, Unseen, Want

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• Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships with churches…I have always seen Habitat for Humanity as a servant of the church and as a vehicle through which the church and its people can express their love, faith, and servanthood to people in need in a very tangible and concrete (literally!) way.

  Millard Fuller

  Circles, People, Creative

  Millard Fuller (1994). “The Theology of the Hammer”, p.53, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

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• And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something. Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it's an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Spiritual, Attitude, Writing

  Interview with Anna Maria Hong, www.pw.org. August 13, 2004.

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• Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Looks, Mars, World

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

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• Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust is a pragmatic, tangible, actionable asset that you can create.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, People, Quality

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Friendship, Success, Lonely

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• In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America - its ambition, economy, it's very tangible measures of success.

  Peter York

  Country, Ambition, Cutting

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• The size of a man's income has considerable effect on his access to the world beyond his neighborhood. With money he can overcome almost every tangible obstacle of communication, he can travel, buy books and periodicals, and bring within the range of his attention almost any known fact of the world.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, Communication, Men

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Real, Heaven, Atheism

  "Atheism: Questions and Answers". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1980.

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• If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical, and poetic realm in which the pictorial image functioned as an extension of the playwright's themes and structures (a metanarrative), then postmodern design is a dissonant reminder that no single point of view can predominate, even within a single image.

  Arnold Aronson

  Views, Design, World

  Arnold Aronson (2005). “Looking Into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography”, p.14, University of Michigan Press

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• The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than simply to pocket six million quid for having been a failure and run for the hills. They want beautiful, flowing football and tangible success, at St James' Park. Fine. I, meanwhile, want Jessica Alba and the Nobel prize for literature. I make my prospects slightly more realistic.

  Rod Liddle

  Beautiful, Soccer, Football

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• Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Real, Atheism, Morality

  "Atheism: Questions and Answers". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1980.

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• But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Beautiful, Book, Blessing

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• Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Language, Appearance, Falsehood

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• Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Elbert Hubbard (1914). “So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine”

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• Memories are less tangible than dreams.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dream, Memories

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.32, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.

  Bayard Taylor

  Taste, Jewelry, Vulgarity

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• Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.

  Olga Broumas

  Song, Healing, Garden

  Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals, but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage.

  John Steinbeck

  Courage, Hunting, Animal

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• What I know for sure is that it's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow. That doesn't necessarily mean your process will necessarily lead you to wealth or fame. In fact, your dream may have nothing to do with tangible prosperity and everything to do with creating a life filled with joy, one with no regrets and a clear conscience. I've learned that wealth is a tool that gives you choices, but it can't compensate for a life not fully lived and it certainly can't create a sense of peace within you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Regret, Mean

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• A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

  Hannah Arendt

  Animal, Reality, Ideas

  Hannah Arendt (1966). “The origins of totalitarianism”

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• I know I have patterns and I've always tried hard to avoid them. There are definitely certain things in my music, if I'm looking back, "Well, that was a period where I was experimenting with a certain kind of chord structure or a certain kind of sound." I've tried really hard, but I'd be hard pressed to tell you what that sound, what that tangible sound of "me" is.

  Herbert

  Sound, Patterns, Kind

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.

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• There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Two, Doe, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was born rich. Not in tangible things... but rich in the parents I had.

  Ross Perot

  Children, Parent, Rich

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