Ban Ki-moon
Diplomat
"Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family"
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Fabric
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John F. Kennedy
Politician
"Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life."
Stella McCartney
Fashion Designer
"As a designer I like to work with fabrics that don't bleed. That's why I avoid all animal skins."
Walker Evans
Photographer
"In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality."
Isabel Allende
Novelist
"The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric."
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"Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship."
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"The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence."
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"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown."
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"Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care."
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"True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting."
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"Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum."
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"To teach is part of the very fabric of learning."
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"Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence."
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"We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion."
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"The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation."
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"Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics"
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"Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever."
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"We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know."
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"There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection."
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"I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny."
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"Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric."
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"Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart."
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"Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together."
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"What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself."
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"Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required."
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