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- Nov 07, 2020
Cobbled Quotes
Praise for things pieced together, not perfectly planned.
These cobbled quotes cover both meanings of the word — literal cobbled streets in old Nice, and the more common sense of things pieced together under pressure, like a low-budget film. It's honest about the Beginning of things.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The argument by the anti-gay-marriage crowd is so absurd, so internally contradictory, and so awash in unproven assertions that it is difficult to take it as anything more than a construct cobbled together by people who just don't like those people.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I experimented with every kind of class possible - yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing - but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020