Gary Snyder Quotes
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
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Dark Helmet : So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
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I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.
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May Allah show mercy upon the man who shows me my faults.
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Friday: Baudelaires, please come with me.Olaf: What about me?Friday: Go away.
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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
