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  • Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
  • The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

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  • Shirley Temple Black Good luck needs no explanation.
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  • Sun Tzu The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Philip Roth A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Sir William Temple Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Henry John Temple Lord Palmerston Die, my dear doctor, that's the last thing I shall do!
    Henry John Temple Lord Palmerston
    British statesman and Prime Minister (1784 - 1865)
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  • Denis Diderot Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Camille Paglia For a decade, feminists have drilled their disciples to say, Rape is a crime of violence but not of sex. This sugar-coated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young women to disaster. Misled by feminism, they do not expect rape from the nice boys from good homes who sit next to them in class.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Shirley Temple Black I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
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  • Peter Townshend If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
    Peter Townshend
    English musician, singer, songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Ben Nicholson If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Sir William Temple Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Marguerite Yourcenar Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
    Marguerite Yourcenar
    French writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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