"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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"The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower."
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"The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone"
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"You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath."
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"Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone."
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"Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths"
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"Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]"
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"No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid."
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"The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone."
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"I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again."
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"Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion."
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"Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul."
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"Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone."
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"In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones."
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"Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable."
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"The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple."
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