As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

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Author: Janet Echelman

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I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated wi

Author: Kevin Mitnick
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A young hero is the world's greatest attraction.

Author: Michael Bassey Johnson
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Ab Americo Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive AmericamFrom Amerigo the discoverer ...as if it we

Author: Martin Waldseemüller
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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Author: Albrecht Durer
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

Author: P. J. O'Rourke
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I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted

Author: Layne Staley
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Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war.

Author: Marilyn Ferguson
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Violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for hum

Author: Louis L'Amour
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Graduating from college doesn't mean you're smart, said Mike Mussina who graduated from Stanford in

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My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a l

Author: Patrick Modiano
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Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting

Author: Heidi W. Durrow
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I would slay myself on the altar of boredom if given the chance.

Author: Jessa Crispin
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I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration.

Author: Edward Ruscha
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Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International Hou

Author: Pat Buchanan
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There was a little girl And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead When she wa

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We don't fall in love with people because they're good people. We fall in love with people whose dar

Author: C. JoyBell C.
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Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

Author: Patrick Ness
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You’re a grown woman, and a clever one. I believe you understand the situation. And I’m going to tru

Author: Tessa Dare
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I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last

Author: Michael Caine
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For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.

Author: Ana Monnar
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Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed.

Author: George S. Patton
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I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been very bl

Author: Josh Turner
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An educated people can be easily governed.

Author: Frederick the Great
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There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these t

Author: P.D. James
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For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.… I think it’s very much

Author: Margaret Atwood
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to

Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.

Author: Victor Hugo
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Maybe sheetrocking wasn't one of Sully's favorite jobs, but like most physical labor, there was a rh

Author: Richard Russo
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I don't even know what a room without books looks like.

Author: Love The Stacks Bookstore
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You must remember this feeling, Jon.The feeling of being happy. It doesn't happen often but when it

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Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth left to itself it sweeps in like the tide.

Author: Fay Weldon
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Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our w

Author: Gene Robinson
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He didn’t see a man with hopes and dreams, with disappointments and accomplishments. All he saw in f

Author: Kenneth Eade
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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.

Author: Andrew Vachss
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Why do you give way to your ego and pride. Where does it stand in the ocean of time.

Author: Naveen Rajeev
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May you see great visions.

Author: Unknown
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I will look at you in the darkness of the night, where there are no colours to fill my eyes and wher

Author: Preeth Nambiar
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Think like a Fox, but don't Behave like one!

Author: Mohith Agadi
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Your children should not have to act appropriately so that you can feel like a valuable person. It i

Author: Jeff VanVonderen
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Human suffering is caused mainly by ideas, emotions, and thoughts which are the handiwork of the hum

Author: Shai Tubali
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It’s not so much where I want you,Sophie, as it is how. Nothing tastes quite like a woman, and no wo

Author: Pamela Clare
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Resistance carves you into strength.

Author: Steven Chopade
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Some women's arms are placed of exile

Author: Unknown
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Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more t

Author: William Arthur Ward
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at

Author: Unknown
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I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth aga

Author: Jack Gilbert
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I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Sty

Author: Orson Scott Card
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The way in which the twists were entangled to knot up the mind-speech-body and the innate nature (re

Author: Dada Bhagwan
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Many nights I watch the sun set. Many nights I watch the moon. They fascinate me. They’re the only t

Author: Danielle Esplin
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I tried not to think of all the horror movies featuring this exact scenario, soon to be followed by

Author: M.A. George
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As we’ve already mentioned, the main premise of the worrier is that things are uniformly dangerous.

Author: Robert L. Leahy
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The vision is always for the appointed time.

Author: Unknown
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I would never see him again. But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one t

Author: Samantha Shannon
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I hate the gym, so I try to diversify my workouts with swimming and basketball. Indoors, it's less b

Author: Mike Colter
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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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Whatever you do, put all your soul, your spirit and your strength into it.

Author: Unknown
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To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.

Author: Confucius
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Day and night. Give and take. But never to die. Each have their time.

Author: Zechariah Barrett
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Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.

Author: Euripides
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Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, h

Author: Hans Christian Andersen
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Immediately after his re-election [Cameron] announced: “For too long we have been a passively tolera

Author: Frankie Boyle
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Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

Author: Sharon Salzberg
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The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep

Author: Vik Muñiz
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A mind with questions is a mind open to understanding.

Author: Colleen Houck
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My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and

Author: Edward Teller
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Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mo

Author: John B. Tabb
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I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can

Author: Kate McGahan
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

Author: Ingmar Bergman
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If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

Author: Victor Cousin
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Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly

Author: Ronald Reagan
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever mak

Author: Sally Hawkins
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Never lose sleep over someone who is not worth staying awake for.

Author: Habeeb Akande
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Everything Is In the World Is Interesting . If You See From Your Deep Level only From The Present

Author: Sushil Singh
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While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and wit

Author: Herbert Hoover
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not th

Author: Charles Darwin
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No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that's left are human hearts and love and ache. We al

Author: Maya Van Wagenen
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Before one day, which will mean the day before today, I just played chess with a friend the strategi

Author: Deyth Banger
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Beauty is harsh.

Author: Cassandra Clare
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Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Author: Edward L. Curtis
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I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a

Author: Annie Baker
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A man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

Author: Judy Blume
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One day you will wake up, you will see with clear sight all that has held you back; you will feel li

Author: Nikki Rowe
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If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of b

Author: Lee Kuan Yew
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They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Author: Stephen King
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If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people

Author: Unknown
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Mackenzie flinched. Struggling to breathe, she stood up and walked over to the table.

Author: Yawatta Hosby
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Every one of us has been called to be an actor in the drama of life and everyone has a role to play

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?

Author: William Harvey
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Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Becaus

Author: Ray Bradbury
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But “almost done” is not done!

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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At times, he admitted, he had been very happy in the apple business. He knew what Larch would have t

Author: John Irving
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Juicero is the first company to make cold-pressed juice something that people can make themselves at

Author: Yves Behar
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Life is to short, if one day is peace in the week, why look forward to it, time will speed.

Author: Anthony
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Blessed be, it's finally Spring. In joy and delight the birds sing, Ravished upon the entire earth,

Author: Ana Claudia Antunes
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Life is not about being complacent, its all about being competent.

Author: Chandan Sharma
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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

Author: Elia Kazan
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Consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and involuntarily, willfully and unsuspectingly, our be

Author: Patty Houser
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But she does it anyway, and I sit beside her...because strength is a choice.

Author: Nadine Brandes