The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.
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Related Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
- John Ruskin, JOHN RUSKIN When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK We will talk to anybody -- people who can manufacture the drug, and are able to manufacture it faste... FRANZ HUMER For this is the Great Deed that our Lord shall do, in which Deed He shall save His word and He shall... JULIAN OF NORWICH Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carri... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cry 'Havoc', and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carr... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin. JOHN RUSKIN True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter. JOHN GREEN I is the hardest word to define. JOHN GREEN Break hearts, not promises. JOHN GREEN We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. Bu... PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect i... JOHN C. CALHOUN Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a... NORA SAKAVIC What makes us different from consulting-type operations is that we are all manufacturing people. The... LARRY SYKES Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll! MARCUS MAYO This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... OSHO We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies! ANTHONY T.HINCKS Even though there was more people, I think our crowd was louder. They've been great for us all seaso... LUKE HARANGODY I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors. DEYTH BANGER Huntington is a great town with much to offer the manufacturing industry. There are many people with... JUSTIN SWICK The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else rema... JOSIAH ROYCE Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews boo... GEORGE W. S. TROW The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greate... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looki... JOHN GREEN Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them JOHN GREEN This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, ... ORSON SCOTT CARD All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free a... GLENN BECK I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba... UMBERTO ECO Manufacturing costs in our Charlotte facility are higher than any other Continental tire plant world... ALAN HIPPE I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN Everything I say, I say to one another...
and everything I know, I know it from another...
The tears... BRAM MESLAND Last year, everything went great in all aspects except attendance. AL BRICKER I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do... LEONARD COHEN Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest wer... THOMAS CARLYLE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better. LYNDA HERNANDEZ The soul that is within me no man can degrade. FREDERICK DOUGLAS I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. KEANU REEVES Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their... EILEEN CADDY The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave. JENNIFER NIVEN If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. 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JOHN GREEN Holmesy, you okay?" Daisy asked. I nodded. Sometimes I wondered why she liked me, or at least tolera... JOHN GREEN Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak prett... MARLO THOMAS Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, excep... EMIL M. CIORAN Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but t... NORA EPHRON Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then y... JULIANA HATFIELD We believe this is a rallying cry - a rallying event - for all of NBC Universal from a digital persp... BETH COMSTOCK The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God! DEDRICK D. L. PITTER There is a need for the manufacturing that we do here to be close by. The military work that we do w... GIL PERRY The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation f... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Embrace YOU...Believe in yourself, in this very moment...forgive yourself for all mistakes and 'bad'... ANGIE KARAN The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Our sacred duty is to love, motivate and pray for one another, so that, we all received grace of God... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l... DEYTH BANGER The object of living is work, experience, happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is ... HENRY FORD A Deed knocks first at Thought / And then -- it knocks at Will -- / That is the manufacturing spot. EMILY DICKINSON It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of ... PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that l... JEAN ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's c... JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ... JOHN GREEN All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th... JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti... JOHN GREEN We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either. JOHN GREEN
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