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Creation Quotes
"Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need."
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"As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting."
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"It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a purging of pity and terror, Which Aristotle tells is the object of art. Everything is transformed by his power into material and by writing it he can overcome it. Everything is grist to his mill. ... The artist is the only free man."
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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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"A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity."
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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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"Everything you wish to "create" is already there, waiting for you."
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"Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay."
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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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"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
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"We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad."
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"Sanity is madness put to good use."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation."
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"Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states."
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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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"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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"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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"To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing."
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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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"One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward."
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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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"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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"Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness."
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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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