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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I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.
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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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I believe it should be within 12 months or more, 24 months, something like that.
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I think the most important thing I wanted to say at various times to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt was that it seemed so sad to me that - I really believe they loved each other and had a great deal of affection - but because of that early hurt in their marriage, there was a certain kind of distance from then on, until their deaths actually. So at times, I just wanted to push them together and say, "Come on, you guys! I know you love each other. This is crazy!"
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Working on 'King Of Texas' was a life experience for me.
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The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.
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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.
