we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.
– Patricia Crone
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- ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion – Patricia Crone
- Our lives are a constellation of events, strung together, glittering; the shapes only being seen from a distance. – Patricia Robin Woodruff
- Human kind has always been in the shadows of each other since its persistence of social interventional among the large groups of human societies. – Het Desai
- The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. -The Crone’s Eyes – Kate Morton
- In art and mythology, the Goddess appears in three forms. White represents the virgin, red the mother, and black, the crone, or the death-goddess. – Erin ORiordan
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- In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Your oddity is your hottest commodity but you scratch yourself like it’s the lottery to reject yourself mentally, spiritually & bodily. – Curtis Tyrone Jones
- Your oddity is your hottest commodity but you scratch yourself like it’s the lottery to reject yourself mentally, spiritually & bodily. – Curtis Tyrone Jones
- Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage. – Tahir Shah
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- Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man…California, I’m comin’ home. – Joni Mitchell
- No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life. – Gina Greenlee
- There is a certain quality to words that when strung in a certain way–has an almost hypnotic effect. – Lang Leav
- On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence. – John Updike
- They’re going to get the death penalty. They’ll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of! – Brad McKinniss
- I’m pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls. – Ashly Lorenzana
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- If the Good Lord meant men to use percussion caps, he wouldn’t have strung flint all over the ground. – Taylor Anderson
- The man was more highly strung than Margaret Thatcher on the rag, God rest her. – LH Cosway
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- Our lives are made up of choices. Big ones, small ones, strung together by the thin air of good intentions; a line of dominoes, ready to fall. – Abigail Haas
- All of today’s DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule. – Lewis Thomas
- Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void – Dean Cavanagh
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- No bow can be strung indefinitely, for it will surely break – Nicholas C Rossis
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- Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling. – Peter F Hamilton
- If we don’t harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil. – Romo Dallaire
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- One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the doubt even to one’s enemies – Garry Kasparov