Breyten Breytenbach Quotes
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
Quotes to Explore
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
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I'll back up anything my dad says.
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I don't like things set in stone.
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I just love asking questions. I love people. It's in my DNA. I'm cursed - and blessed.
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We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
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Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.
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I coulda got mad. But then I had to stop and think, well, what did he get in school? What did he get in his work experience? What did he get even from his own union, that gave him some tools to understand what he was seeing on that television?
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You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.
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Stable climates with muted seasons allow more kinds of organisms to specialize on narrower pieces of the environment, to outcompete the generalists around them, and so persist for longer periods of time. Species are packed more tightly. No niche, it seems goes unfilled. Specialization is likely to be pushed to bizarre, beautiful extremes.
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If you want a future, darling, Why don't you get a past?
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To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it.
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When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a psychotic sense of humanity that permeates nearly everything. It can help you understand, and it can discourage you, because you see how little can be done.
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to hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance
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People should be educated about the links between education, ideology, and politics as a way to promote the virtue of humility.
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I always loved digging away at the story, trying to find out things that people don't want you to find out and piecing it all together. I love the treasure hunt aspect of it, the thrill of the chase.
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What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.
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I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
