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I can always be distracted by love but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.

I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkne...

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Gloria E. AnzaldúaInterviews/Entrevistas

Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The unive...

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

It was nearly lunch-time before Blackie had finished and went in search of T. Chaos had advanced. Th...

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It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by sing...

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Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple ...

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Do you know how I picture God myself?" he said. "As an enormous, creative organ beyond our ken, who ...

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The human mind is a lucky little local, passing accident which was totally unforeseen, and condemned...

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Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is contin...

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Guy de MaupassantThe Collected Novels and Stories of Guy de Maupassant

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of na...

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With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the ...

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A beam from the everlasting sun of God.Rude and unresponsive are the stones;Yet in them divine thing...

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Helen KellerThe Song of the Stone Wall

Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the con...

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...some have asked me what understanding of Nature one shapes from so strange a year? I would answer...

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Henry BestonThe Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman...

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It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change...

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Now I really make the little idea from clay and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it look at it fro...

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For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettin...

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It was shameless how life made fun of one; it was a joke, a cause for weeping! Either one lived and ...

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Nothing is harder yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is ...

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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

But Ilúvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray ofte...

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I would venture to say that approaching the Christian Story from this direction, it has long been my...

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...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would hav...

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Jack KerouacThe Dharma Bums

Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose ...

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The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as a...

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Jacob BronowskiThe Origins of Knowledge and Imagination

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.

All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a ...

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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate f...

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...but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to br...

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...but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to br...

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…   not my own opinion, but my wife’s: Yesterday, when weary with writing, I was called to supper, a...

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I am a thin layer of all those beings on [samadhi level] 3, mingling, connected with one another in ...

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John C. LillyThe Center of the Cyclone: Looking into Inner Space

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rej...

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To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

And of the sixth day yet remainedThere wanted yet the master work, the endOf all yet done: a creatur...

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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must ...

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All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles o...

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagi...

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These earthenware bowls are fragile and easily broken, they are only made of a little clay on which ...

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However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because h...

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José SaramagoDeath with Interruptions

Creation is much in need of ordering.

He has heard, and causes those with ears to hear, even today, what we shall not see until the end of...

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heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simp...

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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilit...

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An all-out attack on evolutionist thinking is possibly the only real hope our nations have of rescui...

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It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the bes...

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If you destroy the foundations of anything, the structure will collapse. If you want to destroy any ...

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The evolution theory is one of the dumbest and most dangerous religion in history of humanity.

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Kent HovindThe Dangers Of Evolution [Dvd 2005]

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.I Name you Calvin.I Name you Mr. Jenkins.I Name you Proginoskes....

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For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...

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In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things w...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

... even in his most artificial creations, nature is the material upon which man has to work; certai...

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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...

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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together ...

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Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.

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Mark TwainThe Diaries of Adam and Eve and Other Stories

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has ...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King

I stood like Adam in his lonely gardenOn that first morning, shaken out of sleep,Rubbing his eyes, l...

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We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our c...

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We, the atom and I, have been on friendly terms, until recently. I saw in it the key to the deepest ...

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Max BornMy Life and My Views

In a time of destruction, create something.

This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can com...

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I have come to see this fear, this sense of my own imperilment by my creations, as not only an inevi...

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Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, f...

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Michael ChabonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. ...

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The sentiment may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sent...

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I can't tell you why God made you the way you are any more than I can tell you why he's planted a ca...

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By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own ...

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The debate that has been conducted in terms of "creation versus evolution" has gotten caught up with...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Within biblical theology it remains the case that the one living God created a world that is other t...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

On the seventh day God rested in the darkness of the tomb;Having finished on the sixth day all his w...

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N.T. WrightThe Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless...as everything created has an end.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're ...

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People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolutio...

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It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war ag...

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A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being...

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When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to u...

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It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being bey...

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Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and ...

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We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.

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Philip K. DickPhilip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.

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Philip K. DickRadio Free Albemuth

Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?""Only to monsters," Dr. Stone...

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