Doris Lessing Quotes
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.
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Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.
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When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
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He will punish all the evil deeds of men, although they have not been prohibited by a prophet, if common sense warns against them, as e.g., injustice and violence. ...it is distinctly added that he who does a good thing without being commanded, receives nevertheless his reward. The same principle is expressed in all the sayings of our Sages.
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A strong, unwavering relationship between the U.S. and its allies Japan and South Korea is necessary for the national and economic security of all three countries.
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The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.
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I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases.
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We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.
