Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

#JohnSteinbeck #FridayQuote

#QuiltBlock – Goose in the Pond – 1815a in #EncyclopediaOfPiecedQuiltPatterns by #BarbaraBrackman

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

#WinstonChurchill #FridayQuote

#QuiltBlock – UnNamed – 1814 in #EncyclopediaOfPiecedQuiltPatterns by #BarbaraBrackman

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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

#HenryDavidThoreau #FridayQuote

#QuiltBlock – Album Patch – 1813 in #EncyclopediaOfPiecedQuiltPatterns by #BarbaraBrackman

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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

#SimonedeBeauvoir #FridayQuote

#QuiltBlock – The Album Pattern – 1812b in #EncyclopediaOfPiecedQuiltPatterns by #BarbaraBrackman

#Patchwork #Piecing #Pattern #GridPatchwork #GridPiecing #GridPattern #GridQuilting #Quilt

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

#EleanorRoosevelt #FridayQuote

#QuiltBlock – Album Quilt – 1812a in #EncyclopediaOfPiecedQuiltPatterns by #BarbaraBrackman

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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

#Tacitus #FridayQuote

#QuiltBlock – Single Chain – 1811 in #EncyclopediaOfPiecedQuiltPatterns by #BarbaraBrackman

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

#IsaacAsimov #FridayQuote

#QuiltBlock -Kung’s Crown – 1809
in #EncyclopediaOfPiecedQuiltPatterns by #BarbaraBrackman

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

LaoTzu #FridayQuote

QuiltBlock – Baton Rouge Square – 1808

in #EncyclopediaOfPiecedQuiltPatterns by #BarbaraBrackman

Patchwork #Piecing #Pattern #GridPatchwork #GridPiecing #GridPattern #GridQuilting #Quilt #Quilting

I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue – rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego.

#SylviaPlath #FridayQuote

#QuiltBlock – Strength in Union – 1807b in #EncyclopediaOfPiecedQuiltPatterns by #BarbaraBrackman

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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

#FriedrichNietzsche #FridayQuote

#QuiltBlock – Strength in Union – 1807a in #EncyclopediaOfPiecedQuiltPatterns by #BarbaraBrackman

#Patchwork #Piecing #Pattern #GridPatchwork #GridPiecing #GridPattern #GridQuilting #Quilt #Quilting