Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
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There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
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Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.
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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
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We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.
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When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.
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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--
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The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.
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The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
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You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.
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You got to have style, and learn to be original.
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For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.
