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"The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again."
"In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection."
"We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire."
"I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me."
"You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection."
"Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!"
"Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness."
"A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation."
"Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation."
"Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations."
"I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?"
"Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others."
"Cooking is revolution and creation."
"Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual."
"Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only those universes that are compatible with our existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense the lords of creation."
"Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted."
"Your creativity comes from the universal source of all creation, the source of all intelligence and wisdom."
"Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization."
"Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute."
"Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect."
