#carve

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ↗

— Michelangelo

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Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught. ↗

— James P. Hogan

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For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. ↗

— George Sutherland

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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. ↗

— James Keller

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I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody. ↗

— Bill Monroe

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A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so. ↗

— Raymond Carver

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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? ↗

— Robert Browning

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As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.' ↗

— David Viscott

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The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow. ↗

— Kit Williams

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