John Clute Quotes
We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable age, I don't know that you can shake them. Even if your rational mind tells you something else, sometimes they're so deeply ingrained that they are with you for the rest of your life.
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Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.
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We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.
