#rings

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create. ↗

— David Copperfield

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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#brings #child #home #hour #like

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#hang #human #human things #slender #strings

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#day #death #happy #life #sleep

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings. ↗

— Jack Dempsey

#before #champion #gong #just #know

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#endowed #feeling #frequently #instruments #many

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ↗

— Joan Didion

#life #own #responsibility #self-respect #source

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#accountable #exercise #exist #for the people #i

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges. ↗

— Buenaventura Durruti

#brings #destroy #fascism #fights #government

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. ↗

— John Tillotson

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