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«Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.»
Author: Georges Braque | About: Ideas, Painting | Keywords: fasten, fastening, fastens, My ideas, nail
«A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.»
«The chains of military despotism once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.»
«Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night!»
«People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.»
«No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck»
«But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying, / I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me: / Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.»
«There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.»
«In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity»
«If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own»

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