Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
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Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
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The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.
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We're doing what we want to do, playing what we want to play, we're looking like we want to look, we're saying what we want to say. In rock that's done a lot, but in country it's not.
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Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
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I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book.
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That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven of dreams, the dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything.
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Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
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It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully.
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A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.
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The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.
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It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.
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My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat--a boat which, to revert to Neurath's figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.
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Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
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Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.
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There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
