"I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind."
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"Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life."
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"If only my heart were stone."
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"In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass."
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"The times are a-changing and if we don't we will sink like a stone."
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"The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols."
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"The next world war will be fought with stones."
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"Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography."
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"I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone."
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"The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic."
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"Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success."
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"Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career]."
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"Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone."
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"You are not wood, you are not stones, but men."
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"Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?"
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"The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age."
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"Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself."
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"Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone."
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"I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones."
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"Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice."
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