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• The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.

  Henri Matisse

  Garden, Doors, Order

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• I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the average American to find good employment and see their incomes rise; that we can't just look at things in the aggregate, we do want to grow the pie, but we want to make sure that prosperity is spread across the spectrum of regions and occupations and genders and races; and that economic policy should focus on growing the pie, but it also has to make sure that everybody has got opportunity in that system.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Thinking, Race

  "After the Great Recession". Interview with David Leonhardt, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2009.

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• By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.

  Dwight Macdonald

  Mean, Men, Personality

  Dwight Macdonald (1953). “The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics”

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• Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.

  Benjamin Graham

  Successful, Intelligent, Technique

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 21, 1949.

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• What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.

  Ted Cruz

  Common Sense, Principles, Constitution

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• The second touchstone for America I think unquestionably was pushing to conclusion the program we had with the Russians to control the Soviet nuclear arsenal. I tend to think that more than anything else, that will come back to haunt us.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, America, Nuclear

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Really, for me, it's important to know who's pitching and who's catching - just what that scene is supposed to accomplish in terms of storytelling. That being said, on the day, basically what you're trying to get yourself into an open place. And if the character is in a state of anxiety or vulnerability, you try to find some touchstone.

  Susan Sarandon

  Character, Anxiety, Important

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• If you don't find that people find you're easier to live with than you were before, if you don't find that your heart is feeling warmer toward others and if your negative emotions are not getting any better, then there's something wrong. That is always the touchstone of the Dharma practice.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heart, Practice, People

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Death, Gold, Facts

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “The House of the Seven Gables”, p.367, Applewood Books

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• The source of each accordant strain
  Lies deeper than the Poet's brain.
  First from the people's heart must spring
  The passions which he learns to sing;
  They are the wind, the harp is he,
  To voice their fitful melody,--
  The language of their varying fate,
  Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,--
  The talisman which holds inwrought
  The touchstone of the listener's thought;
  That penetrates each vain disguise,
  And brings his secret to his eyes.

  Bayard Taylor

  Lying, Hate, Spring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.111

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• What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Art, Portraits, Portraiture

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• The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Friendship, Needs, Way

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• Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Character, Adversity, Fruit

  Ethel Alec-Tweedie, Mrs Alec-Tweedie (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

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• Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Yield, Medicine, Reason

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• ... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Art, Memories, Reality

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• As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Men, Trying, Gold

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• In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from.

  Homaro Cantu

  Country, Ice Cream, Meals

  "How Street Food Become Haute Cuisine" by Homaro Cantu, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2013.

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• Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.

  Caroline Dries

  Profound, Humanity, Dying

  Source: collider.com

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• People feel that the Bible is unequivocal in stating that the age of the earth is very young and so on and so forth, and so the big things get lumped together with the lesser things. And the age of the earth is for example virtually made a touchstone of doctrine, when there's so much evidence out there in science against it.

  John Lennox

  People, Age, Together

  Source: thinkingaboutcreation.blogspot.com

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• Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

  Robert Hughes

  Keys, Ideas, Doubt

  Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, p.30, Knopf

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• Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.

  John Locke

  Men, Mind, Gold

  John Locke (1819). “An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].”, p.314

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• The American people have got a touchstone: Which party voted for the tools necessary to protect America and which party didn't? And that's what I'm trying to get people to focus on.

  George W. Bush

  Party, America, People

  "President Bush Discusses Midterms; War on Terror Strategy With Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Pain is the touchstone of all growth

  Bill W.

  Pain, Growth

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• Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone

  Edith Wharton

  Hate, Self Esteem, Eye

  Edith Wharton (1900). “The Greater Inclination: The Touchstone”

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• Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.

  Tom Kenny

  Jobs, Kids, Careers

  "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.

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