Martin Buber Quotes
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.
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I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. Boisgeloup, winter 1934.
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He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.
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Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.
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Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don't even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experience Facebook and Twitter content or to share third-party web content with your Twitter and Facebook friends.
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I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.
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The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
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I think George Bush is one of the most duplicitous presidents we've ever had.
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Maybe something is wrong with me, but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.
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There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
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The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.'
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If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.
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Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.
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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
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Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.
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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
