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George Fabricius

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. – Wilfred Wilson Gibson
Consciousness is the fabric of the Universe. YOU are a focus-point of awareness. Everything is ONE. – Gordana Biernat
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. – Leo Tolstoy
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. – Leo Tolstoy
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. – Mark Twain
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. – Agnes Repplier
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. – Agnes Repplier
Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves. – Cesar Chavez, letter
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric. – Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique. – Anonymous
That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation. – Don DeLillo, White Noise
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven. – Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children. – Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here. – Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here. – Dante Alighieri

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