Dorothy Day Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
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Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
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To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
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Dead silence ensued, which was well enough for Ansell, to whom it merely meant that neither of us had any more to say. But to educated people silence matters; it is a token of stupidity and lack of invention.
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The Soviet scheme of compulsory labor is being applied on such a broad scale and is so boldly presented as a ‘proletarian’ scheme that it constitutes the gravest danger that has confronted labor for centuries.
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Look at the resplendent colours on the soap bubbles! Why is the sea blue?What makes diamond glitter!What makes Hubli So Special Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets
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Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.
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From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
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I don't plan on writing biographies of great sports stars who are still playing ball. But I did write one on Jackie Robinson, who was playing ball in the 20th century.
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Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
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We pledge to you that we will create jobs. End economic uncertainty and make America more competitive. We will cut Washington wasteful spending and reduce the size of government. And we will reform Congress and restore your trust in government.
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It won't be that expensive, the script is fun, the guys just love this thing, and with all of that, the world is just ready for the Muppets again. It's strange that there hasn't been one for so long. I think there were a lot of political reasons for why that was the case but it's just exciting that now it's going to happen.
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Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them.
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Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
