"If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love."
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"Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself."
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".... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One."
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"One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!"
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"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."
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"Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker."
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"Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?"
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"The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling."
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"A stone is frozen music"
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"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone."
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"From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!"
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"Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds"
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"Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone."
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"To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?"
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"The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in."
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"The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation."
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"When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."
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"[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin."
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"One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please."
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"Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone."
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