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Creation Quotes
"Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay."
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"We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad."
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"A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality."
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"Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin."
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"When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation."
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"But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent."
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"See, when we begin to question the very existence of the Creator that means the creation is perfect. If every day it could not function without morning and evening prayers, then this would not be a perfect creation. This creation is so perfect that you can forget the Creator - you can just discard him, dump him - and still it goes on. So a true compliment to the Creator is when you forget about him. That is a real compliment to the wonderful piece of creation he has made; it is so perfect within itself that it does not need to draw from anything outside."
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"One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union."
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"Everything you wish to "create" is already there, waiting for you."
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"Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are."
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"Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-flesh and bone-only to be spewed out again in our own works."
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"Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy."
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"I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it."
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"To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether."
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"A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity."
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"Sanity is madness put to good use."
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"I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be."
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"To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want."
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"In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction."
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"When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation."
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"That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying."
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"Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states."
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"In the beginning, there was nothing. Then, out of the nothing came the Word and the Word was power. Every utterance of the Word gave form to the Void, starting with beings to utter the Word. There was no Adam, no Eve, and no need. What Man named was."
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"Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles. Worldbuilding works best when it draws from sources in our world. Characters work best when they're grounded in solid human emotion and experience."
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"It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist."
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"The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day."
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"Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our potential when we've got what's effectively the highest income tax rate in the Southeast holding us back."
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"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude."
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"God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God."
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"Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness."
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"You are the creation of your own consciousness."
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