Djuna Barnes Quotes
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
Djuna Barnes
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
Felix Bloch
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
Edmund Husserl
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
Caleb Johnson
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Gary Weiss
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
Dan Hill
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
Garet Garrett
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
Ioan Gruffudd
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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
J. Donald Walters
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
Hans Jonas
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To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.
Fanny Burney
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Figuring out how to scale the very human art of personalization is difficult, but I believe that it is also the key to building a lasting connection with customers for the long term.
Katrina Lake
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They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.
Philip Kaufman
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
Djuna Barnes
