David Deida Quotes
Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
Quotes to Explore
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
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At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
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Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
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Some people want it all But I don't want nothing at all If it ain't you baby If I ain't got you baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain't got you, Yeah
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Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.
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Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.
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People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.
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Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
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Jesus Christ demands the same unrestrained, adventurous spirit in those who have placed their trust in Him that the natural man exhibits. If a person is ever going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when he must risk everything by his leap in the dark.
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We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.
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Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
