"Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it."
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"The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe."
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"Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be."
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"Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there."
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"Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)"
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"The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one."
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"A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both."
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"That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!""
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"That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple."
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"The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks."
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"God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw."
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"God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it."
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"Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground."
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"He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving."
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"The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too."
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"Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?"
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"Leave no stone untamed."
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"I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen."
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"My policy is 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.'"
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""American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life."
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