Martin Buber Quotes
The Thou encounters me by grace - it cannot be found by seeking. But that I speak the basic word to it is a deed of my whole being, is my essential deed.
Quotes to Explore
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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I love bayou life.
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There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.
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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
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A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
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Democrats embrace The Affordable Care Act. We're very proud of it.
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Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.
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See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.
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When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.
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Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.
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My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
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If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.
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I'm coming for Ryan Seacrest - I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest for BET. I want to host, I want to produce, I want to do everything for the network.
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Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
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A place without meaning is no place to be.
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Nature, in providing us with combustibles on all sides, has given us the power to produce, at all times and in all places, heat and the impelling power which is the result of it. To develop this power, to appropriate it to our uses, is the object of heat-engines.
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I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.
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The Thou encounters me by grace - it cannot be found by seeking. But that I speak the basic word to it is a deed of my whole being, is my essential deed.
