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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The old joke about the two main Soviet papers, Pravda ('Truth') and Izvestia ('News'), was 'There’s no news in the Truth and no truth in the News!'
Garry Kasparov
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If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.
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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
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You have to be pretty damned hot and thirsty to enjoy a soy-milk smoothie, but they were, so it was okay.
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We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.
