Mary Oliver Quotes
Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled - to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
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Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled - to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
