John Henrik Clarke Quotes
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
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There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
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A leader of immense stature who always spoke his mind.
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I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
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The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.
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Don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm.
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Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.
