Jean Toomer Quotes
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
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Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
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The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.
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My nickname is 100 percent fan-based. It's not like one day I said, 'Hey, I want to be named Country Breakfast.'
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In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.
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The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy in 1947, I was told that I ought not to use my pistol in their training program because it was not fair. Maybe the first thing one should demand of his sidearm is that it be unfair.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
