Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple."
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Stones
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Claude Monet
Painter
"Everything changes, even stone."
Deng Xiaoping
Politician
"Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power."
Michelangelo
Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
"The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone."
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"My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it."
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"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."
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"If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone."
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"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."
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"I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone."
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"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."
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"If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'."
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"One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone."
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"Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude."
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"Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle."
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"I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober."
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"Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life."
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"The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes."
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"Castles are Forrests of stones."
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"I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness."
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"As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser."
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"What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn."
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"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion."
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"And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone."
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"Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace."
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