Utah Phillips Quotes
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
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We are not going to abandon Iraq.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians... if we were given that opportunity.
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I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
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In class society, everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class.
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There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.
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I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.
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Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.
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Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.
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No root, no fruit.
