Adam C. Engst Quotes
July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.
Quotes to Explore
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There is an innate anxiety which supplants in us both knowledge and intuition.
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You are very familiar with western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple - sometimes naive. Understand, or not?
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All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.
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Here's to the wind blowing against this lighted house and to the vast, windless spaces between the stars.
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I want my mind to be a sail, susceptible to any breeze that might be blowing across the lake of consciousness.
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When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.
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To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?
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Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
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O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
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The people that are making this world worse don't take a day off, how can I?
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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
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This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.
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Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.
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If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
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A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
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The Beatles and the Stones are for blowing your mind. The Doors are for afterward, when your mind is already gone . . .
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Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.
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iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.
