"Each day has its own individuality of color."
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"In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success."
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"On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing."
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"To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones."
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"You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color."
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"I believe I'll take off my colors for awhile / And just kick back and sing some blues."
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"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together."
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"He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors."
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"I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers."
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"Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue."
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"The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words."
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"Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren."
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"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."
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"The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but those who have and who try to explain it to the rest of us are offering us a precious gift: a part of their soul that's been scorched in the flames of Hell. It's a little like trying to describe music to the deaf or color to the blind ... to make the irrational somewhat sensible, which is always confusing and frustrating, and ultimately futile."
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"Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves."
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"These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies."
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"I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away."
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"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."
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"Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that."
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"Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?"
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