Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
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While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.
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There are no innocent people in the Gaza Strip. Everyone has a connection to Hamas. Everyone receives a salary from Hamas. Those who are trying to challenge us at the border and breach it belong to Hamas’s military wing.
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Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3
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I want to make it clear to England, I am not a party girl.
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As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.
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Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.
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We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart.
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Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
