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The true worth of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.

True Worth Found Come
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I always tried to move up the food chain. I started with cement and then moved into textiles and banking. When I was trading sugar, I added salt and flour so that then we could do pasta. And then I thought, why not make the bag for it, too? So, we started making packaging.

Always Chain Then When
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Theater Nature Text Images
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Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

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Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

Relevant Decision History Statue
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Ladies, don’t be deceived by a man who text you “I miss you” only when it’s cold or raining....you are neither an umbrella nor a jacket.

Jacket Umbrella Neither Rain
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I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

About Email Extent Family
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Make that call. Send that text. Forgive that person. Tell them you miss them. Let go of that Grudge. Show more kindness . Don't take it for granted because tomorrow isn't promised

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I trust the universe to bring me everything I need at the right time context and order.

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My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all.

Brothers Context Diversity Even
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Chance Context Even Impose
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Articles Concerning Flood Grateful
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context - all of those things make you unique, and you put yourself on the outside of what's considered the norm.

Artist Artistic Being Considered
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.

Authors Brutality Decay Destruction
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I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

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You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.

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Adele texts me all the time and keeps me in check.

Adele Check Keeps Me
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Textile Built Woven Composed
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Behold Eyes Less Life
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

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No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

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My husband doesn't text... It's always phone calls. I like that because you hear the voice the old-fashioned way.

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There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

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Fashion is kinda a joke. I don't get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it's one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things.

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My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context.

Been Before Concept Context
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Difficulty Excuse Our Pretext
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Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Emergencies Always Pretext Safeguards
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I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

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The Bible is the MOST tested, tried and proven of all texts on the science of life. Its mission is to make life MEANINGFUL and destiny most COLORFUL.

Bible Life Tested Proven
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

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The problem of Africa is we believe in people's report and names but in the context of global development, names and titles have no meaning or merit. What is important is what you DO in order to grow rapidly.

Africa Development Grow Merit
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Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.

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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

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I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

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This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

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People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

Come Tone Warmth Context
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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

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Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

About Care Don't Care Enough
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Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.

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I love using rice as a flour; I'll grind roasted rice and dip fish in that. It gives a beautiful, crunchy texture.

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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

Enumerate High civilization Countries
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Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation—at least in the foreign policy world—depend on context and relevance.

Self explanatory Analysis Interpretation
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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

Past Textbook Tyrants Bible
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