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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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 believe that Bitcoin holds value as a form of 'good money' that is superior to any previously discovered or developed form of money.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.
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I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.
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We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.
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Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.
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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.
