Quotes with spinning-looms

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  • William Hazlitt The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Beth Henley And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Bill Frist Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Rose Macaulay Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Adam Savage My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness - or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bob Schaffer Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry James To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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