Sun Ra Quotes
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
Quotes to Explore
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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We must not indulge in unfavourable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I’ve decided that I’d like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today. If you’re wondering why … you haven’t been paying attention.
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Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
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Being a young woman is difficult enough, but add to that the pressures of Hollywood's spotlight, and you have a lot to navigate.
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We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.
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It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.
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It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
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I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.
